I really enjoyed William Eubank’s Underwater – though if you haven’t seen it check out his first movie, The Signal (2014), which combines Dark City (1998) with an alien abduction story; which is admittedly a bit oxymoronic, but it works – and even own a copy (or is that license?) though whatever the creature is that menaced the crew of the undersea rig in that movie, it definitely wasn’t Cthulhu (no matter what the director says in hindsight).

Having read Lovecraft since my early teens what always interested me about Cthulhu was that it was always bursting with personality, even while he lied dreaming, projecting his malice outward.

The creature in Underwater?

Sure, it was huge but it was just there, and had no personality to speak of.

In other words, it’s just a big monster and lacked the sinister nature of Lovecraft’s creation.

And besides, if that were really William Eubanks’s intention all he would have needed to do is to have characters talk about the horrible dreams they were having or have someone try to kill the others, as if under the influence of a malign entity.

That’s all that would be required to place Underwater firmly as a chapter of the Cthulhu mythos.

Seeing that he did neither of those things, I’m just not buying it.