10 EXACT Moments Horror Movies Self-Destructed

6. The Creeping Shark - From The Depths

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With 2020's From the Depths, writer/director Jose Montesinos certainly offered up something fresh within the shark movie subgenre.

Rather than focus on a shark chewing up victim after victim, this picture opts to picks things up in the aftermath of a shark attack. Here, Angelica Briones' Liz finds herself the survivor of an attack which took the lives of her boyfriend and older sister. Haunted by what she's experienced, From the Depths centres on Liz as she essentially deals with PTSD in the fallout of this horror.

The first ten minutes or so of From the Depths features some beautiful ocean-set cinematography, some genuinely unsettling flashbacks to the shark attack, and throws up plentiful questions of where this unique premise is going to take audiences.

What was initially positioned as a thoughtful, delicate tale full of possibilities and potential, turns into a complete farce when we see Liz stalked by horrendously-rendered CGI sharks. Literally, these monstrosities linger in the hallway of her house, hide behind the blinds at Liz's psychiatrist's office, and float across her backyard.

Upon seeing the first awful CGI creation, you're immediately taken out of From the Depths. And that's before Liz is bizarrely visited by zombified versions of her boyfriend and sibling.

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