Underwater

This modern Lovecraftian tale skimps on character development and goes straight for the terror. Before we realize where we are and who people are, things are literally falling apart as people run for their lives.

Kristen Stewart stars with Vincent Cassel and TJ Miller in supporting roles. No one gets more than the barebones character descriptions and maybe one scene or two of some background on them through dialogue. The end result is we don't care if these hollow characters make it out alive or not.

I was half expecting the film to start off with the quote "...if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." It didn't, but that quote looms over this film as the thought of being in the depths of darkness like these characters, not knowing what's in front of you except dread and terror is somewhat effective. I think they could have played with light a bit more to build that dread.

The creature designs I can't really speak too much about because they are hidden by the darkness for most of the film. This is The Abyss meets Cloverfield with a sprinkle of Alien, but is the lesser of all those movies.