The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear.

A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber.

I was making an action picture, but The Philippines people were all so depressed, and they had made this goofy-looking fish with bug eyes.

"[1]Up from the Depths was released on DVD by Shout Factory as a part of its "Roger Corman's Cult Classics" on January 18, 2011.

Shafer from IGN called the film "severely lacking", and "a low-rent knock-off of Steven Spielberg's smash-hit, Jaws".