I wanted to but couldn't!

A Disappointing Continuation

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

After an engaged couple mysteriously disappears in the Bermuda Triangle, her father organizes an expedition to get to the truth. And the truth? Extraterrestrials are carrying out studies on the human race!The best part of this movie is the opening, where a monologue starts us off, quoting from several books over UFO footage. This has nothing to do with the rest of the film, which makes it even more awesome.People get possessed by the Bermuda Triangle, ghost ships show up and the ending is a lot like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, if you also added in a giant Moai from Easter Island. Yes, it's the second best part of the film. And oh look - Mike is played by Gianni Garko, who you'd probably know better for playing the character Sartana and being in Devil Fish.Director Tonino Ricci also directed A Man Called Rage and Cave of the Sharks. Hopefully, those movies are much better than this one, which is very talky and every time it aspires to be something interesting, it runs as hard as it can away from it. But the beginning and the ending? Worth watching.

ENCOUNTERS IN THE DEEP is a poor and fumbled attempt to cash-in on two separate and popular Hollywood sub-genres of the era: the underwater exploration movie inspired by THE DEEP (and JAWS before it), and the alien encounter flick stemming from Spielberg's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Sadly, in the hands of Italian trash director Tonino Ricci, this film is a hopeless mess for fans of either genre, and that comes from somebody who's a fan of some of the director's output, like RUSH: THE ASSASSIN and its sequel. The fumbled premise has a diver hunting for extraterrestrials beneath the waves, but the story is alternatively muddled and dragged out and made little sense to me. Andres Garcia parades around in his swimwear a lot but has little acting talent while the clumsy special effects are quite pitiful. I can't imagine anyone enjoying this turgid enterprise.

To say this film is a fantastic piece of filmography would be an understatement. Made in 1979, the practical effects still stand up to this day. The storyline of finding an underwater world inhabited by aliens in the Bermuda Triangle is quite simply inspired! I watched the English dub of the film and the actors used conveyed the emotions shown by the characters in the film perfectly. I can't believe "Mike" didn't gain more recognition for his portrayal of "Crazy Eyes".This film is quite simply one of the best films I've seen of late and it would be great to see it rebooted, possibly with Jean Claude Van Damme.10/10

What do we know about the Bermuda Triangle other than what dozens of "experts" tell us? The fact that so many ships and planes have disappeared in this region will probably remain a mystery same as UFOs. But there's also the fact that no one has yet burrowed BELOW the bed of the ocean or even tried to find Glenn Miller's plane?. Here some attempt is made to suggest that an Alternative Universe exists well below the sea and that it may very well hold the answer to all the UFO activity. Imagine UFOs don't come from out of the sky but out of the sea where they cruise the skies looking for a place to land. I've seen a UFO and they glide before disappearing-just like so many have said.