Magenta Light Studios just dropped the full trailer for Deep Water, and it’s exactly the kind of unhinged summer movie chaos audiences will enjoy!
Deep Water follows a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai that goes catastrophically wrong somewhere over the Pacific. The plane goes down. The survivors cling to wreckage.
And then, because the ocean is a nightmare, the sharks show up. What follows looks like a full-throttle survival horror ride soaked in blood, salt water, and very bad decisions made by people who are just trying not to get eaten.
The cast features Aaron Eckhart, Sir Ben Kingsley, Molly Belle Wright, Angus Sampson, Kelly Gale, and Li Wenhan among others.
Quick note for anyone who might be confused, this isn’t tied to Ben Affleck’s 2022 Hulu psychological thriller that shares the name. This one has considerably more shark attacks.
The film comes from director Renny Harlin, the Finnish filmmaker behind Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, and The Long Kiss Goodnight, and he’s doing what he does best… orchestrating spectacular, high-stakes mayhem.
Harlin also directed Deep Blue Sea back in 1999. The shark movie with the genetically engineered super-sharks with Thomas Jane and Samuel L. Jackson, who gives that speech that ends in the most spectacular way possible. The man has form with this particular aquatic predator, and apparently he isn’t done playing in the water with them.
The trailer itself moves fast and leaves marks. It goes from the horror of the crash to the horror of the water to the horror of realizing the water is full of very large, very hungry things, and it doesn’t stop to let you breathe.
This isn’t a film trying to be something else. It’s a plane crash shark survival movie, it knows it’s a plane crash shark survival movie, and it’s swinging for the fences.
For fans of creature features, aquatic horror, and the particular joy of watching a premise get executed with maximum intensity on a proper big screen are sure to enjoy it.
Deep Water hits US theaters May 1st, 2026.
