Is Underwater too scary for you, a wimp who just likes K-Stew? We break it down.
For die-hards, no horror movie can be too scary. But for you, a wimp, the wrong one may leave you miserable. Perhaps you’ve even lost whole nights of sleep in a struggle to get certain images or ideas out of your head, leaving you to trudge into work or school the next morning unable to function properly.
Never fear, scaredies, because Slate’s Scaredy Scale is here to help. We’ve put together a highly scientific andsystem for rating new horror movies, comparing them to classics along a 10-point scale. And because not everyone is scared by the same things—some viewers can’t stand jump scares, while others are haunted by more psychological terrors or simply can’t stomach arterial spurts—it breaks down each movie’s scares across three criteria: suspense, spookiness, and gore.
This is all tense enough—the movie plods along with competence and occasional flair—but you’ll be gasping for air much less than anyone on screen.The prospect of people facing the gruesome realities of deep-sea ocean pressure, broken oxygen tanks, and becoming dinner for unknown species is not always pleasant, and the movie concocts some surreal and potentially haunting images.
The ravages of those depressurized deep-sea divers and unknown species are similarly unpleasant, and though nothing inis terribly graphic, the movie does a fine job narrating all the terrible things that are going down when we see a sudden cloud of blood.. For me, the power of suggestion makes this more horrifying than if I’d actually seen it, but the movie doesn’t show anything more grisly than you’d expect from its PG-13 rating.
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