Encounters in the Deep
From director Tonino Ricci, the assistant director on “Superargo and the Faceless Giants,” comes “Encounters in the Deep.”
In the late 1970s, an engaged man and woman disappear while cruising through the Bermuda Triangle with a racist’s Platonic ideal of a man of African descent. The father of the woman wants a definitive answer to the fate of his daughter and her fiancé, so he embarks on an expedition with a motley crew (which includes Alan, trusty crewmember from Black Whale III) to bring some semblance of closure to his life. Along the way, the gang discovers plenty of stock underwater footage; a fantastic song that is almost on par with ‘Dead Robot’ from “Swamp of the Ravens;” dubbing, really, really bad dubbing; and “aliens,” which is a moniker that should be used very lightly here.
Spoiler alert: only the mustachioed, alcoholic septuagenarian and his German shepherd that can project stock audio wolf howls survive.
Why should this get the RiffTrax treatment?
1) The first 5 minutes of the film are narrated by someone that suspiciously sounds like Ned Blandford hopped up on goofballs.
2) It stars Andres Garcia, aka Alan(!) from "The Bermuda Triangle."
3) It passes the Bechdel Test.
Warning: unibrows abound.
Scot Keller
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