Death Dive | |
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Director: | Alain Vézina |
Producer: | Daniel Morin |
Starring: | Éric Gagné Édith Côté-Demers Alexandre Landry Raymond Bouchard Béatrice Picard |
Music: | Réjean Doyon |
Cinematography: | Jean Kavanagh |
Editing: | Marc Plana Alain Baril |
Studio: | Boréal Films |
Distributor: | Filmoption International |
Runtime: | 78 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
Death Dive (French: Le Scaphandrier) is a Canadian horror film, directed by Alain Vézina and released in 2015.[1] The film centres on a zombie invasion in a small town in the Gaspésie region of Quebec, spawned after a journalist tries to investigate the appearance of a mysterious ghost ship in the St. Lawrence River.[2]
The film's cast includes Éric Gagné, Édith Côté-Demers, Alexandre Landry, Raymond Bouchard, Béatrice Picard, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Pascale Létourneau, Benoit Rousseau, Widemir Normil, Charles Dauphinais, Félix-Antoine Duval and Dominique Laniel.
It premiered in Quebec theatres in February 2015,[1] and was subsequently screened at several international horror and fantasy film festivals, including the Sitges Film Festival.[3] At the Torremolinos Fantastic Film Festival, it won the awards for Best Special Effects and Best Direction.[4]
Joan-Patricia Parris and Mario Soucy received a Quebec Cinema Award nomination for Best Makeup at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016.[5]