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Released
2002 · FILM

Below

A tormented submarine captain must lead his crew to complete a perilous WWII rescue mission while the claustrophobic depths unleash nightmarish hallucinations that threaten to drive them all mad.

“Six hundred feet beneath the surface terror runs deep”

Directed by
David Twohy
Written by
Lucas Sussman, Darren Aronofsky
Runtime
105 min
ActionHorrorMystery

Synopsis

During World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark undertakes what is intended to be a routine rescue mission in the dark, silent depths of the sea. However, for the crew, many of whom are suffering from shell shock, the confined spaces and narrow corridors of the submarine become a setting for psychological unraveling. As tensions rise, they confront sensory delusions, mental deceptions, and escalating fears that mirror the unseen dangers of the ocean below.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Martin HunterShot by Ian WilsonScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Charles Dwight Lee

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.6M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$2.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $285K

Peak 168 theaters

Also known as

  • Below - Da unten hört dich niemand schreiende
  • Abîmesfr

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