Superdeep (2020) is a Russian film set in the early nineteen eighties. It’s one of those films that reminds you of something else. For me it’s the overlap in the Venn diagram where Inseminoid (1981), The Thing (1982), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) meet.
A scientist, haunted by past mistakes, is ordered by an overly patriotic government official, to investigate the outbreak of a disease at a secret research facility in the frozen Kola Peninsula. They drilled down twelve kilometres, the deepest borehole on the planet, and found a fungal spore that infects and consumes the host.
For some reason SHUDDER are showing the film dubbed into English, which gives it the feel of a spaghetti westerns and nineteen seventies giallo horror. Russia has made some really interesting, visually stunning, science-fiction horror films of late, Sputnik (2020) and Attraction (2017) come to mind. I can only think this was a deliberate choice dictated by financing.
Darrin // Nightingale 