Miguel Ferrer is everywhere! I'm surprised at myself. I don't understand how a movie like "Deep Star Six" got past me. It's right in my wheelhouse. There's a monster. It's Sci-Fi. It's Horror. I certainly knew of the movie for years, but never sat down to watch it. But now that I did, I've found that it wouldn't have mattered if I never had gotten around to it.

I think the movie stars Miguel Ferrer. I say I think because it also stars Greg Evigan. Was he a hot property at the time? This was made about 10 years after he would find fame and cult celebrity as a trucker with a monkey in the hit TV series "B.J. and the Bear". What's sad is that "Deep Star Six" looks like it's the most notable work he's done outside of his role as B.J. Actually though, he may be the second best thing about this movie. He's pretty good in it.

Oh yeah, back to Miguel Ferrer, i.e., the best thing in this movie. He seems like he's always cast as a bad guy, but here he seems to be cast as the stupid guy. Thinking back on how the plot of this shook out, he was the cause of almost all of the bad things that happen. He literally does everything wrong. I gathered that he was the "doer" of the team. The one that handled all of the dirty work around the facility. But I honestly don't know how they all survived previous to the sea monster showing up. How his character didn't accidentally kill them all beforehand is mind-boggling.

The monster isn't seen too much but when it is, it varies in its effectiveness. I have to give it an "A" for originality, but about a "D" in execution. There are several scenes when the monster is swimming around in flooded spaces where the rest of the humans are standing in chest deep water. I have no idea how something the size of the beast could stay hidden or not cause a ripple in such a tight space. The look of it is kind of a cross between a frog with the jaws of the alien in "Predator". It's a neat practical effect but we never get a comprehensive look at it.

As the plot goes, I like the premise of a monster released by an explosion. After that, it falls into a story very similar to "Alien". The last scene features a surprise that caught me totally off guard. I didn't like the happy ending but I have to give this an extra point for the shock.

A pretty standard B-movie SF horror where the characters get killed one by one and only the happy couple we met in the first scene survives. Not a spoiler because you could guess that from the start if you know anything about stories. That said, I enjoyed it as the acting was good, the characters were a varied bunch and the monster was kept mysterious until near the end. The thrills kept coming. A good one to watch on Friday night with beer and popcorn.