Exclusive: The Ocean Casting/Location Update!

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One of our favorite directors dropped us a line today to let us know how things are going on The Ocean. If you have not been following this movie you need to leave our site now! Just kidding :) Here is what Dante had to say.

I'm setting THE OCEAN in The Bermuda Triangle, which is known for its mysterious and bizarre disappearances. I decided I want to shoot it in Puerto Rico in an area where the waves are consistently big. The film starts off with a plane descending into the ocean. As the camera plunges underwater, we cut to a violent drowning happening off the coast of a nearby island. The Bermuda Triangle or the "Devil's Triangle" is one of the few places on earth where a magnetic compass literally spins out of control. I've always been fascinated and chilled-to-the-bone by those paranoid 70's documentaries on the supernatural abyss. I'm taking that sense of wonder and fear and applying it to the film.

It's confirmed...Lynn Lowry (Shivers, The Crazies, Cat People) will have a cameo as a lounge singer at a resort on the island. Judy O' Dea (Night of the Living Dead) will be featured as a Scuba Diver who comes into contact with some corpses rising out of the ocean. John Fallon (aka The Arrow) will have a cameo as a surfer. Ellen (The Evil Dead) Sandweiss's daughter, Jessy, will play Felissa's possessed daughter. And this is not confirmed yet -- but I'd love for Jessica (Suspiria) Harper to portray Felissa's mother. She'd be perfect. Also, it would be great to have Tony (God Told Me To) LoBianco play her father. I'm in contact with Jessica Harper and will keep you posted on that.

-Dante Tomaselli

Thanks to Dante for keeping us in the loop on this film. You can read an interview with Dante that we did earlier in the month. He talks about Satans Playground and the Ocean two films coming up on the radar worth looking for!

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