The Deep House is about a couple of YouTubers who travel to a lake in France to film a house that was submerged when the area was flooded. They SCUBA down to the house with their submersible camera and before you can say waterlogged corpses, they can’t get out and realize the house is haunted. And wet. Wet and haunted.

I didn’t like this movie… but I think a documentary about the filming of it would be very interesting. Credit due… they built a set, submerged it, and had two actors and some level of film crew swim through the place. It’s technically very impressive and the camera work is excellent.

And, in theory, a submerged house is certainly a unique filming location. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

Which is why it’s so sad to say that it’s all for nothing much. These two dopes swim around inside the house, panic, swim some more, run into ghosts or something, swim some more, seem weirdly unconcerned about the supernatural crap, can’t fit up a chimney, can’t break windows, etc. You can sink your haunted house, but it turns out, it’s still just your bog standard haunted house movie.

It doesn’t help that they think the best way to project scary is to shake the camera so aggressively that all you can see are rising bubbles. There’s a couple jump scares that are decent and the occasional moment of creepy, but that’s it.

The characters aren’t interesting and are vaguely annoying as social media types, but I’ve seen other horror movies with more believable influencers so they don’t even get credit for that. I’m not sure if we’re supposed to like them or hate them. They are mostly just non-entities, especially under the dive masks where all we can see are their eyes.

Didn’t find this to be a good film though maybe it’d interest SCUBA divers or people who are really fascinated by advanced film making. To me though, after I was done thinking, “yeah, they are swimming around a flooded set. That’s neat”, there was very little to hang onto for the next hour.

Score: 64