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]

Death Dive
Film poster
FrenchLe Scaphandrier
Directed byAlain Vézina
Written byAlain Vézina
Produced byDaniel Morin
StarringÉric Gagné
Édith Côté-Demers
Alexandre Landry
Raymond Bouchard
Béatrice Picard
CinematographyJean Kavanagh
Edited byMarc Plana
Alain Baril
Music byRéjean Doyon
Production
company
Boréal Films
Distributed byFilmoption International
Release date
  • February 20, 2015 (2015-02-20)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

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]

References

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  1. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Scaphandrier, Le – Film de Alain Vézina". Films du Québec, January 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Éric Moreault, "Le scaphandrier: 20 000 zombies sous le fleuve". Le Soleil, February 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Marc Larouche, "«Le Scaphandrier» sélectionné dans des festivals internationaux". Info-Dimanche, October 4, 2015.
  4. ^ "Des prix pour Le scaphandrier". Le Devoir, November 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Maxime Demers, "La passion d’Augustine triomphe". Le Journal de Montréal, March 20, 2016.
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