History Film / DeepRising

* FoldSpindleMutilation: Captain Atherton dies when he's yanked through a gap in a catwalk. A very ''small'' gap. Also the fate of the woman who hides in the restroom; she gets pulled down through the toilet, resulting in a very big splash of blood and gore. The monster, some sort of giant octopus, is ''very'' agile; at one point Trillian notices it slithering through a pipe barely two feet wide.

* IronicEcho: Trillian steals the captain's ID and snarks to herself about its lousy photo. Then she's caught by Canton and some crewmen, and ''he'' snarks about the lousy mugshot on the fax his security people had received about her.

* CoolGuns: The Minigun-Rifle-''thing''. [[BottomlessMagazines Impossibly-huge magazine capacity]], laser sight, flashlight, and the awesome rotating barrels. The guns were made by means of bolting the GunAccessories (including a motorized "gatling" barrel) to a Calico M-950, in and of itself a cool (and [[RareGuns rare!]]) gun in RealLife.

* LateToTheTragedy: The mercenaries were planning to rob the cruise ship and then sink it, but when they arrive the ship is deserted. All of the passengers were eaten by a far more dangerous sea monster that is now infesting the ship while they were en route.

%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: See TookALevelInJerkass.

* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his aforementioned KarmicDeath in the end.]]

* GhostShip: Subverted in that the main characters are seeking out the cruise liner intentionally.

* {{Fanservice}}: The entire female cast consists of Leila, who's Finnegan's beautiful Korean XO that gets a half-off-screen topless scene early on, and Trillian, who's played by gorgeous Creator/FamkeJanssen, wears a lovely, [[AbsoluteCleavage deeply cut]] [[LadyInRed red dress]] in the beginning and an only marginally less fanservice-y getup later on. Neither of them ever suffers [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished even the slightest injury]], or gets dirty for that matter.[[spoiler: Leila does die, but she does it offscreen.]]

* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! just from brief examinations, he theorizes that the creatures they're fighting are gargantuan priapulids, a family of carnivorous marine worms commonly nicknamed "penis worms". More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton. [[spoiler:So it is probably no great surprise that he turns out to be ''completely wrong'' in his assumptions. The "creatures" are actually the tentacles belonging to a gigantic cephalopod-type creature]]. In fairness, the Ottoia ''do'' have living relatives who are all but unchanged from the prehistoric model, so extrapolating their behavior isn't a huge stretch... but he still would have been better naming one of the still-living taxonomies. And even then, he loses points by claiming there are some species of priapulid worm that eat sharks; the largest known priapulid worm species today is only 39 centimeters long.

* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton. [[spoiler:So it is probably no great surprise that he turns out to be ''completely wrong'' in his assumptions. The "creatures" are actually the tentacles belonging to a gigantic cephalopod-type creature]].

* DisappointedByTheMotive: Canton spent so much money on the boat that even at full capacity he'd be at a Net Loss. So he makes a big InsuranceFraud scheme involving mercenaries and torpedoes. Of course he couldn't have anticipated the monsters, but Joey is mad that ''this'' is what everyone is dying over.
-->'''Joey:''' You mean we're all gonna die because you screwed up on the math!?

-->'''Atherton:''' You despicable lousy BASTARD!!! You sold us out to the bloody insurance!!

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The creatures don't simply digest their victims. Instead they are swallowed up, have their liquids effectively drained away, and whatever's left of the body being spit back out (mostly bones and gore). Oh, and did we mention that the victims are still alive during this process?

John Finnegan (Williams) is a for-hire boat captain who is contracted by a group of mercenaries to ferry them to a [[CoolBoat luxury cruise liner]] they intend to rob. However, when they arrive on board, they discover that something has killed all of the guests.

** Even Captain Atherton is not very happy by this revelation as he furiously attacks Canton for this, right before the mercenaries told him to stop fightt.
-->'''Atherton:''' You despicable lousy BASTARD

** Later justified when the DwindlingParty finds the feeding ground and has to flee from a hull breach. With water rushing in, everyone just runs wherever they can, so they get split up, with Finnegan and Trillian in one spot and Joey and Hanover elsewhere. Canon also deliberately split off prior to this in the hopes of saving himself.

* HeartbrokenBadass: After everything he's been through, Finnegan when [[spoiler:it looks like Joey has been dragged off]]. Finngegan simply [[spoiler:clutches Joey's hat and sits there quietly]].

* SevenDeadlySins: The villainous mercenary group seems to be made up of this: Vivo is always talking about food (Gluttony), T. Ray threatens with violence all the time (Wrath), Mamooli talks about his desire to have sex with women from every country (Lust), Jason Flemyng says that the group will "kick ass and take names" as well as taunts a monster and claims it is nothing (Pride), Hanover is paranoid, distrustful and later [[spoiler:ends up shooting at someone who is going to live and not him in a TakingYouWithMe attempt]] (Envy), Mason is seen stuffing money into his pockets (Greed) and Billy complains about all the work he has to do (Sloth).

* AccidentalMurder: Canton accidentally [[spoiler:axes Vivo in the head]] when he believes that it was the creature on the other side of the door. The trigger-happy mercenaries panic and accidentally shoot down a few unarmed passengers in response.

** Mulligan, overlapping with BreakTheHaughty due to Mulligan representing the sin {{Pride}}, begins to freak out when he realizes all his fellow mercenary friends are gone, the monster is cornering them and even [[JerkassWoobie sheds a]] [[TearsOfFear tear]] in light of the situation.

* HateSink: Simon Canton. The monsters are just predators that live to consume, and most of the mercenaries have some redeeming qualities such as [[VillainousValour determination]], being mostly PunchClockVillain-type characters, caring for each other except those not in their personal group like Finnegan, their [[AffablyEvil unique wise-cracking characterizations]] and being [[EvilIsCool badasses]]. Canton however is ''only'' selfish, cowardly, and greedy. [[spoiler:He's not so bad at first (having clearly established with Finnegan that he had planned for everyone aboard the boat to be safely evacuated), but he eventually tries to leave the other survivors for dead, then tries to kill Trillian, shrugs off the all the passengers' deaths because he can still scam the insurance agency if the ship sinks, and tries to steal Finnegan's boat. He meets a deliciously KarmicDeath.]]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: T. Ray, the [[TheBrute biggest and most violent member]] of Hanover's mercenary crew, is the [[SacrificialLamb first of them to be eaten by the monsters]]. Vivo [[spoiler:who's the second biggest member of the crew, gets taken down by suprise by Canton hitting him with an axe to the head.]]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: T. Ray, the [[TheBrute biggest and most violent member]] of Hanover's mercenary crew, is the [[SacrificialLamb first of them to be eaten by the monsters]].]]

''Deep Rising'' is a 1998 action film, starring Creator/TreatWilliams and Creator/FamkeJanssen and directed by Creator/StephenSommers.

They eventually meet a pair of survivors - professional thief Trillian St. James (Janssen), the ship's captain, and Simon Canton (Creator/AnthonyHeald), the ship's owner, who reveal that a malignant creature has infested the ship. What follows is a race against time as the mercenaries try to escape before the creature kills them all.

** Halfwayway through, Hanover and Mulligan get into one when debating bout whether or not to get off the ship or hole up and wait to be rescued.

** [[spoiler:For Finnegan, a prime example is when the monster wasted its own time picking him up to examine him as opposed to other victims who were attacked and devoured immediately]].
** [[spoiler:Trillian had little to no knowledge in gun defense/combat, escapes and/or gets rescued at the right time]].
** [[spoiler:Last but not least, Joey, who is probably the most egregious offender here. Just like Trillian, he had little to no knowledge in gun defense/combat, but always end up being lucky. He was the second last person to jump into the water so the monster would end up chasing after and attacking the last person (Mason). He was shot in the leg by Hanover to act as bait for the monster, but escaped in time with a limp. A short while later, he avoids getting shot by a dying Hanover who was holding a gun. And finally, offscreen he was attacked by the monster but he jumped into water to safety, miraculously avoided the explosive range of the torpedoes, and floated to shore to safety, all the while with a limp due to that injured leg...]]

* PunchClockVillain: If it weren't the fact that they're thieving and RuthlessModernPirates, if not brash and boisterous, the mercenaries would count as they are only concerned with completely their mission to force out the passengers to make way to sink the cruise liner, while being hardened, trigger-happy and somewhat crooked, they are not {{sadist}}s or completely unlikable (unlike [[HateSink Canton]]). Finnegan and his boat crew would also count (as quoted by Finnegan about his line of work, "If the cash is there, we do not care"), perhaps even more so then the mercenaries, with the Punch Clock side outweighing the Villain side. Also Trillian is a thief, but appears to be a affable career thief who is not much of scumbag like Canton.

->'''Finnegan:''' Now what?

* DeadpanSnarker: Joey.

* DwindlingParty: As to be expected, characters get picked off one by one.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: See TookALevelInJerkass.

* LargeHam: Anthony Heald, especially towards the end.

** At the end, [[spoiler: Joey]] says "This looks like a nice place" just before [[spoiler:something huge starts snarling and tossing trees around in the jungle]].