| Up From the Depths | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Charles B. Griffith |
| Produced by | Jack Atienza Cirio H. Santiago |
| Written by | Anne Dyer Alfred Sweeney |
| Starring | Sam Bottoms Suzanne Reed Virgil Frye Kedric Wolfe Oscar Forbes |
| Music by | Russell O'Malley |
| Editing by | G. V. Bass |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures Shout Factory (DVD) |
| Release date(s) | June 29, 1979 |
| Running time | 75 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Up From the Depths is a 1979 horror film directed by Charles B. Griffith. The film, along with many monster movies of the 1970s and 1980s is very similar to Jaws.
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from his slumber. Voraciously the fish helps himself to a tourist buffet. Now it's open season for the local fishermen to find the creature and kill it.
The film was released theatrically in the United States by New World Pictures in June 1979.
The film was released on VHS by Vestron Video in the 1980s.
The film was released on DVD and Bluray by Shout Factory in 2011 as a double feature alongside the similar Demon of Paradise.