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During a dive, Olive, a marine biologist is grabbed by a "creature" and brings back its spawn with her...
Then, of course, she employs movie logic and keeps the egg hidden from her boss who just fired her, instead of telling him and perhaps saving her job. Maybe the "creature" messed with her mind originally to make her do it I suppose because, in the beginning, she had no reason to go along with all this.
She takes it home, and in-between moments of domestic bliss with her boyfriend Matt and her sister Ella who couldn't possibly be there for the reason you think she is, figures out what it eats and I have no reason to tell you what that is, you already know. It also squirts her in the face with ink which establishes some sort of psychic bond with it, causing her to slowly lose her mind and gives the plot a more solid reason than just that her boss was really rude to her face to do these things. Then the thing gets going with escalating violence and madness, including a really uncomfortable "nursing" scene...
I'm being snarky but I had fun with this after it gets past the slow setup. All the characters were likable, save for the already mentioned rude Dr. Fletcher. The main actress playing Olive especially just kills the role, and she even gets nude for some reason, which I don't mean in a disrespectful way, more like why are you showing the goods for an extremely low budget movie kind of way. Even if you don't like the movie, fine whatever, there's no way you won't recognize her great performance.
So yes, this movie is Lovecraftian. He even gets his Call of Cthulu lines quoted in here. It hits all the expected story beats and does it quite well, so you'll know whats coming when you get into the flow of the movie, or if you're not familiar with Lovecraft you will then just be really confused I guess, which is also fitting.
This is also why the low budget practical effects work so well here... They just make the icky slime tentacle monsters look even grosser and more odd-looking. Some of the reviews are going on as if this is some poorly shot and done high school level thing. Yeah right! This looks as good as you can expect for the budget, they did a great job. I only have one issue and that's with the sound, the voices are often low and there is a repetitive thump-thump noise played over and over in the background and it got on my nerves a bit. The main character is supposed to be going mad, not me!
In the end, just a well-acted and fun Lovecraftian film once it gets going and if you are OK with low budgets and an uneven pace at times you should enjoy it.
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