Ok, I watched the whole episode of this TV show. But in the end, I was pretty confused….
But let’s start at the beginning.
At first, I was sure that she was the killer! She smiled somehow triumphantly as she entered the boat after the dive. She had gloves, unlike her boyfriend….and the killer was wearing gloves.
Later on in the episode, another murder like this happens, it is just the same…. a surprise attack with a rock from behind.
Then a guy is presented as the potential killer. But did he kill both scuba divers? The ending of the episode is so confusing, that I’m not 100% sure who actually killed these 2 divers.
Well, I’m 90% sure that this guy was the killer (he was on another boat nearby)….but I like the idea of her being the villainous murderer 😉
And the murderer in the picture above looks rather slim for a guy…
But perhaps someone who watched the whole episode also can enlighten us!
What is really annoying for me is that all the divers in this scene are wearing basically the same gear in the same colors.
I hate it when that happens as you then can only guess who is who….especially when there are no closeups to the face underwater.
But ok, here it is used to confuse the audience so that you would suspect either one, the woman, or her boyfriend to be the murderer.
Yeah, I know they can cover a lot more ground with 3 divers in different areas, but it’s very irresponsible that everyone here is diving alone.
But ok, the murder was only possible this way…
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*EDIT*, February 14:
As a BONUS for the folks who visit the blog, here is the 2nd scene I was talking about…
So, who was the murderer?
I leave that up to your fantasy…or maybe one of you has the answer after watching the whole episode….
A very special one as this contains a nice action scene 😉
Frogwomen rivalry with Frogwomen Alice and Lucy, 1080p, 60 frames, 4:25 minutes
Frogwoman Alice is wearing the Elios vintage style beavertail smooth skin wetsuit. For the most part, she is using a Scubapro C370, later on, a Royal Mistral Double Hose Regulator.
Frogwoman Lucy is wearing the Aquasphere Pursuit smooth skin wetsuit and a Mares Abyss regulator.
Some preview pictures:
The picture quality in the video does actually look a little better than the screenshots
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A short trailer that also includes scenes from this video:
2 hoods, no fins, scuba knife, air hose slicing/cutting, air hose damage
Lethal or non-lethal ending for at least one of them?
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Non-lethal
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I thought hard if I should publish the 4th picture above. I mean it spoils the action scene, but in the end, it has to be there so that you folks know that there is this action scene at the end.
And from that picture, you still don’t know how it’s gonna end so… I think it’s good to have it.
In parts of this video, I am using the small 1L Smaco tank that Lucy used in video 2 as I wanted to be at the bottom of the pool so the two frogwomen could dive above me.
For the most part of the video Frogwoman, Alice is wearing a Cressi mask with a mirror effect so that you only can see through the glass from certain angles. I think it’s a really cool mask for a mysterious frogwoman. For the last scene, they swapped their masks as I think that mask fits better to the “evil” frogwoman.
I recommend that you watch the video before you continue!
SPOILERS ahead!
(click on the “Spoiler title+” field below IF you wanna read the spoilers)
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I am very happy that the two agreed to make that last scene as not everyone would be OK with actually doing that. Frogwoman Lucy had only perhaps one hour or less of scuba experience (in total) and was willing to do something that nearly no diver has actually ever done. Frogwoman Alice had to react fittingly to the action, which she did really well, especially considering this was all very much improvised as time was running out quickly.
But I am happy with the outcome, especially as a scene like that wasn’t done like that, at least not to my knowledge. I mean how many scenes do you know where a hose of a frogwoman with a double hose regulator gets sliced by another diver? I know exactly one fetish video where that happens…..and there they cheat big time as the outtake hose gets cut…which isn’t a real problem for the “victim”. I do know not a single movie where that happens.
If you look closely you can see that the two hoses of her double hose regulator are different. I swapped the original hose from the ’60s (!) with a modern version that was less flexible and thicker. With the first slice, Frogwoman Lucy damaged the air hose as you can see air is already escaping. The second slice severed the hose at another place as the “salvaged” air hose showed later. Perhaps the damaged air hose would have ripped also as the air was pumping through it later on….hard to say.
And this all was just a test run for much more scripted scenes I have in mind for the next shooting! These will have a (simple) storyline with more action and “deadly” outcomes as well…. and then my camera skills and lightning skills will have improved as well 😉
I underestimated how loud the noise would be as she surfaced and the air was still blown out of that sliced hose….. Above the surface, I quickly closed the valve, but damn, that was QUITE loud! I actually filmed that as the camera was still running as I closed the valve.
Also if you look closely at the buddy breathing scene, it looks like Lucy is pulling the octopus regulator away from Alice….perhaps on purpose as a foresign of the next scene? 😉
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Editing:
I used the same filters as before (white balance, 10% more brightness in the shadows, text).
The original/raw footage was about some minutes longer but contained some footage where we discussed some aspects in between the shots.
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Wanna watch this video?
This video isn’t available in the VIP club anymore, as the videos from video shoot 1 were removed from the VIP club when the new videos from video shoot 6 came in.
And I even heard about it much earlier in the year.
Now I was finally able to watch the movie!
Making a post about it as I usually do, would be quite impossible.
In the post, I will post some minor to average spoilers but NO big spoilers about the ending.
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
Normally I post basically all the scuba scenes from a movie as they normally have only one or two.
In this case, that won’t work. Ok, I could post the highlight scenes of it….but I decided against that, at least for now.
If you are interested in scuba, scuba action, scuba peril….then this movie is a MUST-see for you!
The movie has an introduction of about 20 minutes, and then the whole rest of the movie is set underwater!
As the movie has a total runtime of about 80 minutes….well….yeah….this movie has 60 minutes of scuba diving in it!
Thereby the movie practically shows their dive in real-time!
That is why I can only recommend watching the WHOLE movie instead of some snippets.
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Now to the movie, is it worth the time and money?
Well, I certainly think it is! 😉
The storyline is simple, a couple is filming themselves as they enter haunted houses, cool places, and such things and upload these videos for the followers.
They heard of a lake that isn’t on any map and that there would be a house in that lake in great condition.
So, they decide to dive down to the house where the action begins as they aren’t alone there!
The movie certainly takes its time before the horror really starts and I’m glad the trailer showed so little of it.
The overall idea of why this house is a horror house is solid. The atmosphere is building up really well as the two divers proceed further into the house.
The sound is really good, especially with headphones or a nice Surround Set!
The scuba gear is quite nice. Standard wetsuits with BCD’s on the back where they belong! And they are using solid full-face masks.
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Now, some pictures from the movie:
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Here is a link to Amazon UK, where you can rent or buy the movie:
If you use any of the sponsored links above I do get a small percentage…so THANK you!
It isn’t available on Amazon.com (yet), and I bet there are also other sites where you can buy it.
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(medium) SPOILERS AHEAD! I recommend watching the movie before you continue!
(medium) SPOILERS AHEAD! I recommend watching the movie before you continue!
(medium) SPOILERS AHEAD! I recommend watching the movie before you continue!
Like in Breaking Surface the main enemy of the divers is time and the dwindling oxygen reserves. But in a hunted house there are also other problems 😉
Here you have to accept the fact that supernatural things are happening. I mean there is a house in pristine condition in a lake that was “made” decades ago.
They really did a good job in building these sets and I’m looking forward to finding hopefully some “making of” videos on a Blu-ray release in the future.
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I had hoped for a little more (scuba) action, especially as there is a twist near the ending that is perfect to have some more scuba action. Yeah, there are some struggle scenes near the very end, but I had hoped for more. But yeah, it’s hard to satisfy me in that direction. The “ghosts” should be more dangerous, which of course is difficult as they are basically underwater corpses who are quite slow (naturally). The most danger comes from their supernatural abilities.
The movie has just the 2 divers and one other guy in it (picture 1). But shooting underwater is complicated and expensive!
From the trailer, it was already clear that there would be “only” this couple, but it would have been great to have perhaps 2 more divers down there with them. That would provide more action scenes with the scuba divers.
Or perhaps no supernatural aspects and some enemy divers that are there to protect the house for some reason. And then some scuba fights in an underwater house! How fantastic would THAT be?!
But ok, that’s my fantasy 😉
All in all, the movie is really good and delivers quite a unique setting with 60 minutes of underwater scenes!
Yeah, there is some wasted potential here and there, but still, it is a very entertaining movie.
*EDIT*As I just learned, there is a short scene AFTER the credits, so check that out 😉
In some weeks I may post my highlight scene of this movie, but as I said, watch the whole movie!
Until then I haven’t heard about her…but that knowledge gap could be closed 😉
That documentary is well worth a watch, I highly wanna recommend it!
But this post is actually (mostly) about another documentary….a documentary that is mentioned several times in “Playing with sharks”.
A documentary from 1971, with sharks…and Valerie Taylor in black rubber for most time underwater!
The film crew is on the hunt for a great white shark as they wanna film him underwater as he is feeding….something that was never done before (before 1971)!
For you folks I made a highlight cut with my favorite scenes 😉
Preview:
Getting ready!
Sharks all around her…
I love her scuba gear (suit)!
A great white!
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
There are a lot more scenes of her in that rubber suit, but then the video would get way too long 😉
Some years earlier she might also have used a double hose regulator, but those were already on the retreat since the mid-’60s. 🙁
But I really love her suit…for me, it can’t get much better than such a black rubber wetsuit!
And did you realize that fish did bite in her air hose at around 2:38???!
The fish….
…bites into her air hose 😉
That fish was just curious…luckily for her, that bite wasn’t strong enough to puncture her only air hose.
Of course, even that wouldn’t have been a problem for her as she is a very skilled diver and help would have been nearby.
But still, I really like that scene! I wonder what would have happened if she had had a corrugated air hose…. as these are way easier to damage/puncture.
The documentary itself….is very problematic….from today’s point of view.
The research on sharks was only at the beginning and it shows big time. This documentary was watched all around the world and I think it’s safe to say that it played an important role in the development of Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”.
Taylor did actually film some shots for it some years later with her husband.
I still really love that movie, even I know it’s fantasy and that sharks don’t behave like that.
For the sharks that movie was surely catastrophic in many ways.
In the new documentary “Playing with sharks” that I mentioned earlier….Valerie Taylor reflects a lot on how her attitude towards sharks and sea life in general has changed over the years.
So, I can recommend to watch both documentaries as you then get the whole “picture”, even you should have a strong stomach for watching the old documentary as there is a lot of cruelty vs aninmals….especially whales….in it.
Here is a picture of the new documentary:
Also….a lot of interesting scuba gear from the ’50s onwards…in this one.
After very little participation in the second round of different trailer music tracks….I was a little disappointed and thought about the whole trailer thing.
Today I finished the trailer. Basically, it’s the very first version that I uploaded, now with some changes to the order of scenes and some fixes to the music.
…and I added the intro and outro text.
Here it is:
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If a regular visitor of this blog you should know most of these scenes already.
If you don’t then you have some “homework” to do 😉
Many (the best) of the scenes from the trailer can be found in my “Hall of Fame” section here on the blog.
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If you live in Japan and can’t see the trailer on Youtube (blocked there), then you can watch/download the trailer here:
Ok folks, time to make a BIG, juicy post about a new movie that deserves it! I am sure this will be one of the longest posts I made on this blog.
You all should know Deep Blue Sea (1999), certainly one of the best shark movies with a big budget (60 million $….and that was 20 years ago).
Then in 2018, there was a successor with a tiny budget, practically the same plot…..but it wasn’t good. In fact, it was quite horrible. It had a short and uninteresting scuba scene.
This June I posted about the trailer for Deep Blue Sea 3. It was promising as it had quite a lot of scuba content and the female lead had some scuba scenes as well.
This week the movie was actually released and I watched it in the hope of being entertained and, of course, to find some good scuba scenes.
Deep Blue Sea 3 has an estimated budget of 5 million $. Certainly not an A-list movie.
I don’t know if they planned (before Covid) to release it on cinema screens, but I guess not, especially after the 2nd one was a disappointment.
Even after watching the trailer….I certainly didn’t expect to get HYPED like this 🙂
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The setting is already nice with a tiny island that slowly gets swallowed by the ocean due to climate change. Even some parts are made by CGI, a pretty impressive setting for that limited budget.
Tania Raymonde, the lead actress, looked already familiar to me in the trailer, but I didn’t know for sure. After a check on IMDB, I knew for certain: Actually, I know her since the start of her acting career as she had a small role in “Malcolm in the middle” in the early 2000s. She was also in “Lost” and “Goliath”.
After 90 seconds she appears in the movie in a black, smoothskin shorty…. and ….my eyebrows…. moved up already. 😉
Preview – scenes from before AND after her first dive in the movie:
After her first dive of the movie…
…. Tania is still…
….in her smoothskin wetsuit (shorty) 🙂
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And here is the video – scenes from before AND after her first dive in the movie:
If I would post all the scenes of her scuba diving …and/or …wearing sexy wetsuits/bikinis throughout the movie it would practically be half the movie 😉
Here is a selection of her outfits that she wears both underwater and above the surface :
Smoothskin wetsuit (shorty)
full wetsuit
Bikini
Wetsuit(?) (shorty)
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The ultimate HIGHLIGHT of the movie is around minute 70.
[small SPOILERS ahead!]
The bad guys have placed an underwater mine that would not only kill the sharks but also sink the (artificial) island.
So, Tania gets into scuba gear once again and wants to defuse the mine. But the villain has sent a diver after her to stop her!
And what followed…let my lower jar drop… (+other things happened as well).
(*EDIT January 2022*: Now on Google Drive since it is suddenly not welcome anymore on YouTube)
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Over the years I have seen quite a lot of scuba fights. Some were good, others were bad.
But DAMN! THIS is how you make a scuba fight!!!!!
Ok, there are things you can improve here….but SO many things are done realllllly good:
– It’s a little weird that he doesn’t use the speargun that he still had as the villain sends him after her. He also doesn’t have a knife, or he doesn’t wanna use it. And he also fails to use the element of surprise. She was fully focused on the mine, so he could have sneaked up from behind her and ripped her mask off, stabbed her, cut her air hose etc.. Maybe he was too incompetent, he underestimated her… or he just wanted to have a real challenge instead of a “dishonorable” kill.
– The whole time you hear her breathing sounds from that FFM. It’s thrilling to hear both of them grunting and moaning as the fight goes on. You can really HEAR the struggle! A pretty rare thing when it comes to underwater fights.
– Tania really fights back! She is not the easy victim he may suspect. I love how she tries EVERYTHING: She attacks him with her knife, reaches for his mouthpiece, beats against his mask, claws into his hand, uses her elbow to hit him as he is behind her. Pretty sure I have never seen so many different moves from a frogwoman in a scuba fight! Love the fight choreography here! Often the bad guys (try to) yank out the mouthpiece of a frogwoman to drown her and that’s it. Tania has an FFM, so he can’t do that. She struggles frantically to keep the mask on as he is trying to yank it away from her forcibly.
– The whole struggle as he yanks on her mask…..is really awesome! A verrrry intense scene! A close-up of his hand yanking on her mask would have been great, but that’s only a minor issue. My slightly bigger issue is that the white shark rescues her a little too early 😉
Would have loved to see her struggling for some time without the mask, while her mask would be spitting her precious air. However, it’s great that he did manage to rip that mask off after all the struggle. The evil frogman had no luck after he finally managed to overpower her, he had a BIG advantage…..he got eaten… 😆
This scuba fight is one of the very best in my opinion. Certainly in my TOP 5 of all time!
It’s great that we still get fights like this one! I guess I know at least 95% of the good ones….so I am VERY happy about the new material! 🙂
Fun fact with some spoilers about the ending of the movie, don’t read it if you haven’t seen the whole movie!
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Actually, all the women survive…and all the men get eaten/killed during the movie
I guess some trolls and other sorts of morons think that this movie is a feministic movie against men …and thereby part of a feministic worldwide conspiracy 😆
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