Do fish actually DO that…?“The tetra,” Johannes Roberts laughed. But it just didn’t feel impactful enough,” Roberts explained. Everyone loves dolphins because, you know, Flipper. There’s a few arthropods that live in caves, because you’ve got spiders and you’ve got centipedes and insects and stuff.

Amazon.com: Watch 47 Meters Down: Uncaged | Prime Video You know, I see what these guys are doing, it’s incredible. I always think there’s a real potential here—if they would actually consult with scientists, they could make these things even better. And there is actually an element where it comes from, the stuff you’re doing. Four high school girls go scuba diving in Mexico through these underwater caves … But I have such a good team.

The movie was released direct to DVD in the UK on February 3, 2020 and added to Netflix in April 2020, without a theatrical release in the country. “I am a diver myself. That’s something that does not happen right away.

They tagged a shark off Australia that ended up off South Africa and went back again. But however you look at 47 metres down , this is a deep dive . The anxiety was dark and concentrated, the seascape enticing and vast.But the movies made in the shadow of “Jaws” have tended to be waterlogged chamber thrillers. Now you can say maybe—maybe, it’s a stretch—maybe there are sharks that live in caves. I think we’ve got this fear of sharks that’s already there, and it’s been cultivated by the way the sharks are depicted in the media.For example, yes, there are fish that live in caves.

So we had to create different ways to light the movie throughout, to tell the story with light throughout the hour-and-a-half. Directed by Johannes Roberts. To learn more or opt-out, read our Throughout the summer of 2019, audiences have been deprived of what’s become an I did see the movie. A lot of these white sharks come up from below and rocket up to the surface toward their prey and nail them that way. Sasha's friends Alexa (The girls become separated by the silt until Mia and Alexa find Ben, who is suddenly devoured by a Grant explains that the only way out is to swim back down even deeper in order to find another exit, but is killed by a shark moments later. But it is a movie, you know?” Roberts added.But although full face masks aren’t conventional scuba gear, there was one piece of Hollywood fakery that Roberts eschewed while making the “So we really tried to keep it, in its own way, grounded, even though the movie goes off in its own direction. The dialogue would always cut out, which is why the scenes never lasted for more than a few minutes. But what’s interesting is that, with the skates, they actually have more electroreceptors than some other shallow-water species. With Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Rose Stallone. Sharks have always had this negative rap.

If nothing else, that’s unique. Then they can say, “Well then, these sharks would be blind as well.” Well, no, that’s really not the case at all. [Case in point: the scene where a tetra fish shrieks at our heroes, underwater, causing them to recoil and cause a cave-in. They may use them occasionally for shelter, but certainly not constrained to the cave environment.The only real underwater caves, the only extensive underwater caves are freshwater ones. It was like the opening scene of “Jaws” extended to 90 minutes ­— and amazingly, the director, Chris Kentis, sustained the tension.

They can live in caves where there is allegedly small amounts of food.Also if these fish are that big, this cave system must be extremely extensive. That’s the difference between a decent “Jaws” knockoff and a lousy one. The first is simple: Dive operators do, in fact, want you to come … And it’s been suggested that what they’re doing is they’re compensating for the fact that they can’t see anything; they’re relying on their electroreceptors to help them find their prey items. The one that cuts the mustard will use death, at least once, to make you grin. 47 metres in feet is 154 feet, or 47 metres in yards is 51.4 yards. He co-hosts three weekly podcasts: Critically Acclaimed (new movie reviews), The Two-Shot (double features of the best/worst movies ever made) and Canceled Too Soon (TV shows that lasted only one season or less). They’re really skittish. But I don’t think they’re particularly interested in consulting with the real scientists.Oh, I have to commend the writers on their imagination. It was a very tricky thing to do, to create this kind of journey of light, because really that’s your biggest way you can tell a story in a movie like this,” Roberts explained.But lighting isn’t the only problem when you’re shooting underwater in caves. I think we’d be with alarms and flares and flashlights and working lights and then open-air caves, and stuff like that.