Hoezo in KINO

With the massive critical and financial success of Aliens, Cameron could handpick his next project. He set out to combine his passion for deep sea exploration and a lifelong ambition to push technological boundaries in filmmaking with The Abyss, a suffocatingly tense thriller about a diving team setting out to salvage a nuclear submarine. Shot for large parts underwater and with almost no stunt doubles, the project took a massive toll on cast and crew (Ed Harris almost drowned, as did Cameron himself), but the result is an astoundingly claustrophobic and submersive experience that also debuts a successfully utilized use of CGI in a sequence with an alien lifeform that gave Cameron the confidence he could pull off a certain liquid entity in his next project… The Abyss still lacks a proper digital restoration, so to fully experience this underrated deepsea sci-fi, you have to catch it on 35mm. Don’t miss out on this great print (the theatrical cut) provided by Eye Filmmuseum. English language with Dutch subtitles.