Leviathan

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Leviathan

R

1989

1h 38m

Sci-Fi

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Hired by Martin (Meg Foster), the head of a major corporation, a crew including geologist Steven Beck (Peter Weller) descends to the ocean's depths for a mining project. When the undersea explorers find a sunken ship and investigate, they inadvertently bring a malevolent life form on board their vessel. The creature kills some crew members and causes them to mutate, resulting in a battle for survival against an unknown force far below the surface of the ocean.

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Critics Consensus

A deep-sea thriller with an unusually strong cast and potent ideas, Leviathan quickly plunges into an abyss of weak thrills and lame kills.

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

May 20, 2003

The latter half of the film is one long feeding frenzy, guided by a familiar horror-film principle: survival of the best-looking.

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Richard Harrington

Washington Post

Jan 1, 2000

Leviathan is intermittently interesting, but it's a bad sign that the movie starts losing its punch when the monster shows up.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Oct 19, 2026

3/5

A mostly confident, if familiar, slice of sci-fi / horror comfort.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Mar 2, 2024

2.5/4

The effects by Stan Winston are typically polished, even if the creature looks like the usual assemblage of teeth and tentacles.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Sep 6, 2020

7/10

As far as rip-offs go, this is one of the best.

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

Jul 7, 2020

B

The cast is like the first team at the B-movie all-star game.

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Joel H

@786Joel Oct 5, 2026

Imagine John Carpenter’s classic 1982 science fiction horror film, The Thing, but set underwater instead of Antarctica. That’s Leviathan in a nutshell. And it seems that seven years of improvements in visual effects and a slightly larger budget didn’t do this 1989 movie any favors. Or maybe it’s just that the cast of Leviathan isn’t as capable or charismatic. Peter Weller does his best to be the cool leading man here, but it just comes off as corny. However, there are some decently creepy moments in Leviathan, especially at the beginning, before it bubbles up into some truly ridiculous territory.

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Reggie S

@Beebers Oct 1, 2026

Can't count the number of times I've watched this movie. Leviathan is a cult classic. It's so bad, it's good. I love it!

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Zachary B

@RT55281018 Sep 30, 2026

Epic movie for its time. Now an occult classic. I have watched this movie several several times. I never get bored of it.

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Squid M

@RT05722511 Aug 10, 2026

a hit and miss movie, it would have been the B movie back in the day.

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Smyles A.

@Smyles Mar 24, 2026

I have a deep love for 80's scifi... This film for me is amazing. It's like "The Thing" but underwater locked away with a monster....

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Jorge H

@jorge02 Mar 13, 2026

The film is so horrible, a highly derivative, low-effort mash-up of superior sci-fi horror films like Alien and The Thing, featuring a nonsensical, rushed ending, I would NEVER recommend this movie, not even to my own bloodline

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Synopsis

Hired by Martin (Meg Foster), the head of a major corporation, a crew including geologist Steven Beck (Peter Weller) descends to the ocean's depths for a mining project. When the undersea explorers find a sunken ship and investigate, they inadvertently bring a malevolent life form on board their vessel. The creature kills some crew members and causes them to mutate, resulting in a battle for survival against an unknown force far below the surface of the ocean.

Director: George P. Cosmatos
Producer: Luigi De Laurentiis, Aurelio De Laurentiis
Screenwriter: David Webb Peoples, Jeb Stuart
Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Filmauro, Gordon Company
Rating: R
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 13, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $15.4M
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Surround

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