Black Water: Abyss

There is one genre that I have a guilty pleasure for that I will always watch whatever comes out regardless and that is survival horror, specifically when its nature related. In 2007 a movie came out called Black Water about a group that gets terrorized by a crocodile in the mangrove swamps of Australia. Now we get the next movie in the line up, much like the follow up movies to Open Water and 43 Meters Down this one has nothing to do with the original movie except for the environment and/or creature trying to kill them. In this case its a crocodile again, this time a group of five are going to explore an unknown cave, yup, did not tell anyone they were going. When torrential rains they thought were not going to affect them hit the area while they are in the cave system it begins to flood the cave and force of the water pushes rocks across their only exit point. Finding themselves trapped underground in an unknown cave with the water steadily rising, oh and there is a killer crocodile in the water that has nothing better to do than wait until they get in its territory. Much like the other examples I referenced this one is no where near as good as the first one, I actually liked Black Water quite a bit because it was outdoors with most of it happening in daylight which this one goes the usual route going for dark and confined areas with the ability to try to unsettle you by having a flashlight shine across the creature hunting them. Black Water also took place in the mangrove trees along a river in Australia, lot of these movies take place in Australia lately, anyways it works well with my mangrove logo. This was at from being the best and no where near the worst that I have seen, I recently watched Outback that is pretty up there in terms of the worst, a lot of my ranking for this would be the amount of times characters make stupid choices. I don’t think this is worth the price of rental or purchase, though if it wanders onto a streaming platform you subscribe to an also find guilty pleasure as I do in watching people in situations far worse than your in then I’d say go ahead click on it a night you have a little bit of time to waste and don’t want to watch something taxing on the brain. Now to get ready for Deep Blue Sea 3 and yes it is a real thing.