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[[caption-width-right:320:[[EnemyRisingBehind Peek-A-Boo.]]]]

* Various moments could qualify as this, but arguably the most well played comes when the survivors discover the creature's feeding ground, where it's excreted the gooey, skeletal remains of its hundreds of previous victims. The camera pans over them, the faint but clear sounds of these people's horrified final screams played over the music like a ghostly echo.
** Of course, that's assuming it's finished draining ''all'' of the passengers yet and some of those distant screams aren't ''actually'' happening, somewhere deep inside the monster or elsewhere on the ship. After all, we just assume there aren't any ''more'' survivors still onboard, who might have made it that long, only to run out of luck.
** The [[https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/deep_rising.html original script]] has it even ''worse''. The crew find the creature with the "meat locker" where it keeps several victims ''still alive'' within itself until sending out tentacles which liquify them.
*** Think it can't get worse than that? The victims ''are still alive and aware of the entire thing.'' The script describes one poor woman reduced to her ''eyeballs still pleading for help'' before they too are gone.
* In addition, during the climax where a tentacle grabs Finnegan, shrieks in his face and then appears to quite vividly laugh at him, with a disturbingly human "HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR". While it might sound cheesy on paper, the dramatic directing makes it downright horrifying.
* Billy's death. He falls right out of a tentacle's digestive chamber after Finnegan shoots it. Half of the guy's body is missing, but he's still alive and aware enough to feel it.
** Has anyone wondered how much of the damage done to Billy's body came from being digested and how much might have come from high-speed, high-caliber minigun rounds striking him when they pierced the tentacular chamber he was in at the time? How else would his ''skull'' have such a huge chunk taken out of it (the creature's other victims are skeletonized but completely intact/fracture free)?
* The woman who dies in the bathroom. Unbeknownst to her as she sits down on the toilet all we see is her briefly flailing and screaming before cutting to a spray of blood and a shot of her arm implicitly being sucked down the toilet. Whether this is better or worse is up to you.
* Right before Captain Atherton gets sucked through a deck to his death, with the creature having hold of one of his legs, his ''other'' leg snaps upwards at a 180 degree angle, meaning that not only is he going to have to suffer through being slowly digested alive, he's going to have the pain of a horribly fractured leg to deal with as well.