Deep Blood [Blu-ray]

Director: Joe D'Amato, Raf Donato Joe D'Amato

Overview

An ancient Indian spirit terrorizes a beach town in the form of a bloodthirsty shark in Joe D'Amato's Jaws rip-off, Deep Blood. Seems that a Native American elder once warned a group of youngsters about this great evil in the sea, and years later, the friends are forced to face their fears when one of them is killed by a shark in a series of attacks along their coastline. It's up to the remaining few to make sure that this monster is killed -- even if it means heading out to sea to do it.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/27/2021
UPC:	0760137492283
Original Release:	1989
Source:	Severin
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	30,052

Special Features

[CC]; Trailer; 1080p Full HD Resolution; Scanned in 2K from the original negative for the first time ever

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Frank Baroni	Miki
Allen Cort	Allan
Keith Kelsch	Ben
James Camp	Wayne
Tody Bernard	Sheriff
John K. Brune	John
Margareth Hanks	Elizabeth
Van Jensens	Indian
Don Perrin	Bartender
Claude File	Oceanographer
Charlie Brill	Ben's Father
Mitzi McCall	Ben's Mother

Technical Credits

George Nelson Ott

Joe D'Amato	Director,Producer
Raf Donato	Director
George Nelson Ott	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Deep Blood easily represents the most bland of all the Italian Jaws rip-offs. Joe D'Amato, never a director too concerned with quality, delivers a ho-hum shark picture filled with miles of stock footage and a plot that only sounds like junky fun on paper. The idea of an evil Native American spirit shark is admittedly over the top, but the way D'Amato plods things along tends to seep all of the ridiculousness out of it. It doesn't help that no fake shark was ever created for the production, thus the kills are made up of quickly cut together stock shots of a fin, some teeth, and maybe some intercut full-bodied shots of the deadly fish swimming around in murky waters. Despite its tedium, Deep Blood does feature a few lines of bad brilliance from a bevy of extraordinary B-movie actors. It's also, quite possibly, the only shark film that actually feels like an Afterschool Special, which in itself adds a bit to the flick's bottom line. If it wasn't hampered by such a god-awful bore of a finale, Deep Blood would be a bit more delectable, though even then, there isn't much in the flick that would garner a recommendation besides the chance to see all the footage that another Italian director would later steal for his own Jaws clone, namely Bruno Mattei's hilarious exercise in awful, Cruel Jaws.