And the actual horror of the ship is never explained. The closest description any of the characters get to them is calling them "zombies." So yeah, they're ocean zombies... but not, because they make it clear they don't want to eat the divers, just keep them entombed in the ship with them. Why? Dunno. How? Dunno. At one point, it's implied that the carbon dioxide awakens them, but then it's later implied that it's the simple presence of other living creatures. Unclear. Unexplained. Also? Where'd they come from? Dunno. Never touched upon. I needed something to explain this story, because everything the divers do is just stupid as hell and utterly inexplicable. Okay, budgetary constraints are a lot to do with what makes this film what it is and a lot of its shortfalls can be forgiven because of that. But it isn't just the dreadful compositing or weightless CGI fish that bring the film down. It's a mess from beginning to end. In short… take it away, Sharky: Its a mix of C and assembly (but mostly C), written from "scratch". I wrote about it in detail here if you are interested:

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English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese So looking at the header settings in that database, they did more than just set the rom to ines2. They also set 2 additional settings in the header (looking at the NES version, not VS): Is there any disadvantage making an official release with the never, better (and from what I've read) retrocompatible nes 2.0 header?

Nov. 12: Just finished reading about the second dive. The creep factor is turned up and this is getting intense. Even weirder is the strange happenings on the ship in 1928. A feature length documentary entitled ‘From Below’: a film by Matthias Kispert celebrating the mutual aid projects during COVID-19, and how they are moving forward to help people in the future (the trailer can be viewed here). Rediker argues that Lemisch went beyond these distinguished scholars in several respects: “If the British Marxist historians, along with the French historians Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul, had pioneered “history from below,” which made historical actors of religious radicals, rioters, peasants, and artisans, Lemisch pushed the phrase and the history further and harder with “history from the bottom up,” a more inclusive and comprehensive formulation that brought all subjects, especially slaves and women, more fully into the historian’s field of vision… by insisting that sailors and other workers had ideas of their own, he [also] made a point that many historians have yet to grasp—the history of the working class must be an intellectual as well as a social history.” It is important to note that the majority of the themes explored in this book deal with sensitive subject matters. My review, therefore, touches on these topics as well. Many people might find the subject matters of the book as well as those detailed in my review overwhelming. I would suggest you steer clear of both if this is the case. Please note that from this point forward I will be writing about matters which contain reflections on self-mutilation, mental illness, suicide, murder, & others. Do you believe in ghosts or hauntings? After reading the terrifying adventures of this documentary team it just make you think twice about what happens after death especially when one dies in a tragic and violent death.

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It would be wrong, however, to think that history from below ignores power relations or the powerful. As Geoff Eley argues, setting history from below against histories of “the bosses, bankers and brokers who run the economy” is to invoke a false antinomy. “Historians from below”, notes Rediker, “study power.” This felt more like a paranormal mystery than an actual full-fledged horror novel. As events started to unravel, that was the vibe I got in this being more mystery than actual horror. There’s nothing wrong with that but being a huge horror enthusiast, I needed scarier events and situations than all this extra dialogue, often which was just repeating what had already transpired. I definitely wanted more scares, creepiness, and what you’d typically find in a horror novel. Thanks for your kind words! I'm glad you could enjoy it! I spent a lot of time talking with classic Tetris players to make sure it was something people coming from that world could enjoy. So, yeah, nothing like starting with an already scary plot foundation, deep sea diving, and adding a ship that went missing under weird circumstances, and supernatural elements. Like our protagonist mentions, professional divers can die in familiar waters. The unskilled and barely qualified crew in this story, plus the truly unsettling features of the area they're diving, begin us on a high level of Scary from the start. This was my introduction to the work of Darcy Coates and was an excellent starting point. I'm eager to find out what else she has in store for horror readers. The best summation/elevator pitch I can think of to describe this is extreme claustrophobia creepiness under the deep sea..This is an entertaining Underwater horror book. The narrative felt claustrophobic and tense. The characters were decently well developed and did not feel too stereotypical. As someone who cannot swim, these kind of stories definitely appeal to me. This was my first Darcy Coates book and I think it was a great place to start. Coates just keeps adding elements to make the walls close in on you, literally - having both hydrophobia and claustrophobia, I was genuinely creeped out, rare for me in all my horror reads. She skillfully leaned on the idea that when drifting in the dark, your path only lit by a headlamp, even the mundane becomes terrifying. That specific concept of abandoned places, but with incongruous things like tables, glasses etcetera left behind, as terrifying spaces.

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But that’s not really the problem with From Below. The problem is how utterly fake it looks. If the two lead actors even saw I have read all three books in Gravekeeper series and thoroughly enjoyed them. While I appreciate all of Coates's work, I must mention that the Gravekeeper books stand out for their paranormal horror, which is quite distinct from the horror found in From Below.Darcy Coates makes good use of the claustrophobic setting and her characters, even though they are making some dumb decisions here and there, are more plausible in their actions as is usually the case in books like this. She also employs a dual timeline that lets the reader slowly uncover what had happened aboard the Arcadia in 1928 while in the present timeline our crew of divers will find out as well. This form of storytelling was working perfectly here. Dread. In the brief moment he’d touched the metal, he’d felt the danger of the place. This ship wasn’t a gem on the ocean floor, waiting to be found. It was a trap. A monstrous, hideous trap. Unfeeling, unyielding." When we talk about numbers, amounts or statistics being at a lower level, we use below more than under: