So I was like alright, making Cthulhu here.” So that’s where we started going Lovecraftian. And in designing the movie – we were done shooting, but we obviously never shot the behemoth cause we were gonna do him later – I just basically was like… we were early enough in the design that was able to shift more to a mystical being. A massive behemoth – it was called The Behemoth. He continued, “ He was written in the script as a big, whale-like creature. “ Yeah, spoiler alert, this is a secret Lovecraft love story, where you get to see Cthulhu briefly at the end,” Eubank told Mr. Lovecraft’s most iconic creation is in the public domain, you see, allowing for Eubank and his visual effects team to bring the monster to the screen in their own movie – which, aside from the appearance of Cthulhu at the end, certainly doesn’t outright adapt any of Lovecraft’s stories. And that was no mere coincidence, as Eubank has confirmed that Underwater‘s big bad is indeed Cthulhu! The final act of Underwater puts Kristen Stewart face to face with a MASSIVE behemoth that seems to have tentacles sprouting out of his face, the design of the monster calling to mind the iconic design of H.P. Those monsters they’d been terrorized by, turns out, were mere children. It’s in the incredible final act that all of the film’s flaws are forgiven and we truly realize what the characters are dealing with. The monsters are no doubt creepy, mind you, but it’s not until the final act that Underwater truly establishes itself as an all-time great in the aquatic horror arena. The film’s monsters, with their massive gaping maws and spindly, Cloverfield-reminiscent legs, only actually kill one character in the entire movie, and for the most part we only catch glimpses of them in the darkness. While William Eubank‘s Underwater kicks off with immediate intensity, wasting no time plunging Kristen Stewart and the rest of the cast into the deep sea nightmare we bought a ticket to experience, it admittedly lags a bit around the middle, and unquestionably could’ve used a tad bit more monster mayhem to pick up the energy. Underwater isn’t a Cloverfield movie, but it definitely is a movie.
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