I feel the need to justify myself by saying that there was absolutely nothing on and found myself watching the SyFy channel . I wasn't expecting because we are talking about the SyFy Channel and was intrigued by SEA GHOST ( That's the title it was broadcast under ) and if I didn't like it I could always share my opinion on it with my faceless peers on IMDb . Unfortunately if I'd visited this page before seeing this dreadful piece of excrement I might have saved myself two hours of my life that I will never get back The bizarre thing is that SEA GHOST gets off to ... well I won't use the word " good " but it does seduce the audience in to thinking it might be better than it really is as the early scenes features a group of scientists examining some alien DNA they've found under the ocean surface . Suddenly the DNA comes to life and attacks the scientists . I say DNA but perhaps CGI would be a better expression since it's obvious how the effect is achieved . SEA GHOST contains perhaps the worse CGI I've ever seen in a film and I've seen a lot of movies on the SyFy Channel and this goes way beyond bad as an alien tentacle resembles something out of a kids cartoon . Things get even worse as it's revealed that the cartoonish CGI is only the second worst thing about the movie What really makes SEA GHOST stick out from its mediocre fellows is the lack of a focused storytelling genre. I thought I'd be watching the tried and trusted formula of a CGI monster chasing scientists around a ship but this isn't how it plays out . The scientists are killed off and new characters are brought in to carry the story . As the story continues there's scenes that belong in a totally different film . We get some soft porn , a Western sequence complete with the man with no name and an action scene set in Iraq . This is explained by a character stating something along the lines of " The alien must be able to read our thoughts and give us intense hallucinations " SEA GHOST is a film that gives the audience the impression that it's being written as it's going along . One is left perplex at the number of scenes that feel as if they've wandered in from a different genre never mind a different film . One wonders if the often laughable and inept CGI is either a symptom or the cause for the way the narrative constantly changes structure

"The Thing Below" is a really weak creature feature with a few good moments about it.**SPOILERS**After disappearing in a colossal storm, a rescue team, lead by Capt. Jack Griffin, (Billy Warlock) and his staff Crank Wowchowski, (Kurt Max Runte) Anna Davis, (Catherine Lough Haggquist) Dixon, (Colin Lawrence) Cassidy, (Warren Christie) Mel Rodgers, (Kiara Hunter) and Bobby Gibbons, (David Richmond-Peck) are accompanied by Dean Rieser, (Peter Graham-Gaudreau) to find and retrieve it's cargo. Arriving at their oil rig destination, they find it abandoned and completely trashed despite experiments all throughout the floors. Finding the rest of the facility in the same shape, they discover that a drilling operation to remove a meteorite from around the Earth's core had actually contained an alien creature, and it has the ability to telepathically read victim's thoughts to lay a trap for them. With the team dwindling down, they race against to time to stop the creature from escaping the rig before they all it kills them all.The Good News: This film has a couple of things going for it. One of the biggest factors is it's really high body count, which is made up of several huge massacres in the film. From the opening wipe-out of an entire ship, along with another one later on and the ensuing massacre of the ship of the characters, this has a pretty big kill count. We also get a couple of really good ones as well, including a tentacle impaling a victim in the stomach and coming out the mouth, a tentacle wrapped around the head and crushing it, being completely covered in tentacles, and the best, where a victim is swarmed by the tentacles, enough to appear later as having his lower half below the waist appear to be a writhing mass of tentacles. When the creature begins to use illusions to get to it's prey, this shows off the main part of the movie that shows any energy, where one woman starts to strip and do a dance while fire goes off around her. Using oil as well, it's quite exotic and manages to become incredibly memorable. This also has a couple of really great suspense scenes, including an outstanding sequence where a team member is taunted by off-screen noises inside a dim hallway. As he's concentrating on another task, the voices keep being heard, and when turning around to check them, only a dark hallway with an ethereal fog off in the distance. As the voices continue, it leads a very big suspense scene to the film. It does have a few good moments in it.The Bad News: This is one of the most lackluster creature features ever. One of the biggest issues is with the titular creature. We're told multiple times that it's so radioactive it exerts one hundred times the radiation needed to kill a man, yet nothing ever comes of it other than lip service. Despite the fact that it's mentioned three or four times in the film, it never, ever, ever comes into play. This is shown in the one instance where it automatically throws it out the window. What's the natural step to take in order to get it to whatever secret government facility it needs to wind up at? Yeah, just as you thought, they picked a ship. Naturally the crew encounters rough ocean waters, and when the scientists aboard the ship decide to move the glass-encased specimen, they drop it. Instead of them all dying of radiation poisoning, they are all attacked by the creature, right after it was mentioned that the creature was radioactive. It's quite weird why that would be so. One of the film's other big problems is that it's a quite confusing most of the time. It's funny how these characters don't find it the least bit strange that these things materialize aboard a deserted drilling platform in the middle of the ocean. None of them act as it's quite strange to see the creature illusions and react to them with an air of lust. This is quite distressing to see. Of course, the creature's actions are no better. It can read minds to create it's illusions, but it can only do that from close range. And the only reason it creates illusions is so it can kill. So if it's close enough to kill in the first place without the illusions, why doesn't it just do that? This is quite unexplainable and hard to believe. Even harder to understand is the change of the creature. When we first see it, it's a small, snake-like tentacle. Later on, it's a whole bunch of tentacles. Much later, we see a character attacked by something resembling an insectoid octopus. After that, it's back to being a tentacle again. By the film's climax, it's a whole bunch of giant tentacles. So what exactly is this thing? An alien tentacle? A bunch of alien tentacles? Is it just an appendage of a larger creature or is it just a psychic alien tentacle? How does it keep multiplying and changing size throughout the movie? None of them are explained or hinted at, and it's quite frustrating, as all are possible. It's most grievous sin is that it might be the worst looking CGI possible. There's no way to describe how bad this looks, and it might inspire fits of laughter when viewed. These all conspire to knock this film down.The Final Verdict: While it's not all that bad, it's still not one of the greatest creature features ever made. It's got too many problems and has only a few good parts to really be of interest to those who love the cheesy creature features it's playing off of or in the mood for a bad movie marathon.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and Nudity

There are no words to describe the absolute misery that this movie will subject you to. Before its end, you too would gladly welcome death.The plot is awful. The CGI looks like it was hand-drawn onto the frames in production. The beginning credits attempt to be creative but butcher the intro. The same footage is shown over and over again, and most of it looks like it came from a 1980's 8bit video game.What's worse is the insulting attempt to cover up how awful this film is by including a few busty women. If that's all you want from a movie, then you'll find it here. Just don't expect to be entertained.If you're considering watching this movie, please don't throw away your life like that. Your time will be much better spent by watching that horrible Ewok movie that Lucas put out in '84. You deserve better than this.

This movie and its twin Deep Evil (2004) (TV) are painful to watch.I won't go into too much detail or reiterate what others have written. I did watch the whole thing but my excuse is that I was watching this in the background while on the computer.I kept on having deja vu while this played and I just could not put my finger on it - cheesy CGI, less than enthusiastic acting, and some other details.The overall idea, some of the effects, scenery, bio-hazard outfits, black eyeballs, and "lumpy" skin all looked too familiar - I looked up the cast and crew for this movie and Ah ha! I had seen Deep Evil (2004) recently. They share so much: plot, effects, and one of the writers. Who knows maybe some of the footage got mixed up on the cutting room floor? Don't bother with the movie. Watch paint dry. (Or watch both movies and compare, for fun!)