10 Horror Movie Opening Fakeouts We All Fell For
8. Deep Blue Sea
Watching Deep Blue Sea for the first time, you're aware that this Renny Harlin-helmed picture is about a bunch of scientifically-altered super-smart sharks running rampant in and around an ocean-set research facility. As such, the opening moments of the film play out in a way that absolutely has you expecting to see the first carnage of this 1999 offering.
That opening finds two generic young couples partying on a private boat out in the middle of nowhere. How do we know they're partying? Why, that's because they spout horrendous lines such as "now this is a party" over and again.
As the mood darkens and something bangs on the bottom of their boat, it doesn't take long before a gnarly mako shark bursts through the vesel, knocking all four characters into the water. With the shark circling back around, going in for the kill, and literally showing its teeth, Deep Blue Sea is expected to soon notch up a tone-setting opening scene kill, ala Jaws.
Only that doesn't happen.
From out of nowhere, restraining darts are fired into the creature, with it revealed that Thomas Jane's Carter Blake has miraculously, silently arrived on the scene to capture the escaped shark.