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‘UNDERWATER’ DIRECTOR SHARES CREATURE CONCEPT ART AND TALKS ABOUT HOW HE GOT
THAT MONSTER IN THE MOVIE [EXCLUSIVE]

Published

3 years ago

on

April 15, 2020

By

John Squires

This article contains spoilers.

As named in the home video release’s special features, there are primarily two
types of monsters in William Eubank‘s creature feature Underwater: the
“Clingers” and the massive “Behemoth.” The latter monster, as his name suggests,
is the true “Big Bad” of the movie, and his unexpected presence paves way for
one hell of a final act we can’t say we ever saw coming.

If you thought the “Behemoth” looked quite a bit like one of the most iconic
monsters in pop culture, well, you’d be hitting the nail right on the head. As
he revealed during an interview earlier this year, William Eubank indeed drew
inspiration from the tales of H.P. Lovecraft for Underwater. Namely, his film’s
final act monster is, for all intents and purposes, Cthulhu.



Lovecraft’s most iconic creation is actually in the public domain, allowing for
Eubank and his visual effects team to bring the monster to the screen in their
own movie – which, aside from the appearance of Cthulhu at the end, certainly
doesn’t outright adapt any of Lovecraft’s stories. Speaking with YouTube’s Mr. H
in January, Eubank spilled the beans.

> “Yeah, spoiler alert, this is a secret Lovecraft love story, where you get to
> see Cthulhu briefly at the end,” he revealed.

Yes, Kristen Stewart battles Cthulhu in a movie that ultimately ended up being
released by Disney. If that doesn’t make Underwater one of the year’s coolest
movies so far, well, I’m not sure what would. But how exactly did Eubank manage
to slip him in there without any of us knowing? And how did Disney feel about
releasing a straight up Cthulhu horror movie?

Well, for starters, Underwater was very much not originally conceived as being
one.



“It wasn’t written to be a Cthulhu movie,” Eubank explained in a conversation
with Bloody Disgusting this week. “Brian Duffield wrote this terrific, scary
film, but it wasn’t Cthulhu. It was just called a Behemoth. And I was in post
for two years, basically. And during that time, when [we] actually started
designing and creating what this Behemoth was gonna look like, I just knew at
that point the movie was more mystical; in the way we shot it, in the way there
were so many unanswered questions.”

> “I knew that the best way to service that was to head towards Lovecraft.”

Backtracking a little bit, the creatures in Underwater changed a good deal
during the course of that two years of post-production, and it was when the
design of the “Clingers” – parasite-like beings that hang off the Kaiju-sized
Behemoth – changed that Eubank realized he had the perfect opportunity to bring
the ultimate scary monster into his aquatic horror film.



“[IT director] Andy Muschietti had come down and seen some of my early monster
stuff, which was a little more squid-like. And he was like, ‘I don’t think
that’s scary enough.’ And Chernin [Entertainment] was telling me [the same
thing]. And so then I was like, alright, well… I’ll make him something that’s
pretty scary,” Eubank recalls, laughing. “We didn’t have much money to do big
redesigns or anything like that, but fortunately since it was early in the
process we were able to tweak the design that we were doing. And obviously you
see the Clingers a lot more. And fortunately because we were working on the
movie in order, we were able to shift the designs towards a darker, more
Lovecraftian thing. When I started submitting designs for the Behemoth at the
end, I was basically just telling the artists, ‘Alright, let’s make the Old One.
Let’s get the boss of all bosses.’ It all worked. It’s so perfect.”

Eubank continued, “Disney then bought Fox, and we went into hibernation – I
didn’t really know what was happening with the film. And we get to the first
marketing meeting and one of the first marketing points was, ‘We think Lovecraft
fans are going to love this movie.'”

> “Right away Disney was getting it. They understood what we had done.”



Ultimately, Disney released Underwater without ever tipping their hand to
Lovecraft fans, and Eubank is thankful that the marketing preserved the secret
at the bottom of the ocean.

“In order to make a proper Cthulhu movie, in my opinion, you can’t say it’s a
Cthulhu movie,” he told us. “Because then the experience of the unknown and the
cosmic horror really isn’t there. But by going in totally silent about it, and
allowing people to be like ‘Wait, what is this. This isn’t making sense.’ And
then for it to make sense in the end. That’s the best way to experience it. I
was pretty stoked that they kept it under wraps.”

“If I had told people right from the start, it would’ve just been a big no,”
Eubank added, further suggesting everything needed to happen the way it did –
organically. “This to me, the way we did it, is the perfect cosmic horror way
in. I feel like we really got away with something that doesn’t usually get to
get made.”

> “You got to do this stuff in the ’80s, ya know.”

Made on a reported budget of around $50 million, Underwater is indeed the very
definition of the sort of movie that “doesn’t usually get made” these days, and
though the risk may not have entirely paid off at the box office, the fact that
an original, big-budget Hollywood creature feature was even released in the year
2020 is something of a gift. Especially to fans of Lovecraft, whose ticket
purchase gave them the coolest representation of Cthulhu that has ever graced
the big screen. That it was a surprise, well, that was just the icing on the
cake.

You can see more creature concept art, including those early squid-like designs
Eubank touched upon in our chat, by picking up Underwater on Digital HD and
Blu-ray today.



Related Topics:CthulhufeaturedKristen StewarttopnewsUnderwaterWilliam Eubank

John Squires


Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting.
Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays
with toys.


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