10 Recent Monster Movies Better Than Godzilla: King Of The Monsters

47 Meters Down: Uncaged follows the diving adventure of four teenage girls exploring a submerged Mayan City. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly Great White Sharks.

This movie could be considered a slasher - but it's a slasher with one hell of a set. The slasher angle suits the director's proclivity for tautly choreographed kills in confined spaces. The immersive sets standing in for ancient ruins and dimly-lit caves prove to be a terrific sandbox for the filmmaker to play in. They come with naturally ominous negative spaces that are essential for well-staged jump-scares.

Godzilla: King of Monsters is infamous for its obscured 'first confrontation' scene during a blizzard. This scene is integral to the story as it is when one of the main characters is killed. The visuals are so terrible during this scene that in order to clarify that the main character has actually died, the scene changes to a computer screen with a picture of the main character's face on it and the text 'DECEASED' over it.

47 Meters Down: Uncaged has reached a level of cinematographic beauty that the hack-and-slash of Godzilla: King of Monsters simply couldn't (or wouldn't) aspire to.

At least in 47 Meters Down: Uncaged you get to see the deaths, blood and gore (and one very realistic-looking severed head) during all of the meandering dialogue. Despite its faults, I'd still rather spend my time watching scantily clad teenage girls screaming each other's names than try to make the figure of a 100-foot-something monster on screen.