Below [2002]

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2001
Running Times:
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Dimension Films / Marty Katz Productions / Protozoa Pictures
Executive Producers: Darren Aronofsky, Mark Indig, Eric Watson
Producer: Sue Baden-Powell
Unit Production Manager: Nigel Gostelow
Production Coordinator: Susie Ford Weismann
Assistant Production Coordinator: Linda Crook

SCRIPT
Script: Lucas Sussman, Darren Aronofsky, David Twohy

DIRECTION
Director: David N. Twohy
1st Assistant Directors: David Daniels, Gary B. Goldman
2nd Assistant Directors: Don H. Julien, Matthew Sharp

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ian Wilson
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Peter Talbot
Wescam Operator: David Norris
1st Assistant B Camera: John Bailie
Focus Puller: Michael Green
2nd Unit Focus Puller: Faye
Key Grip: Andy Hopkins
Gaffer: Norman Smith
Video Coordinator: Andrew Haddock
2nd Unit Video Operator: Leon Buckley
Colour Timer: Mike Hatzer
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd
Camera Equipment: Panavision (UK) Ltd

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
1st Assistant Editors: Gavin Buckley, Bob Lusted
1st Assistant Editor [Re-Shoot]: Lionel Johnson
Assistant Editor: Debs Richardson
Post Production Supervisor: Brian McNulty

MUSIC
Music: Graeme Revell
Music Supervisor: Joe Rangel
Scoring Mixer: Mark Curry
Music Editors: Melissa Deanne Ferguson, Joshua Winget

SOUND
Sound Designer: Tom Ozanich
Sound Recordist: Eric Flickinger
Production Sound Mixer: Peter Lindsay
Boom Operator: Christian Joyce
Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Keller
Sound Editor: Jason W. Jennings
Auricle Operator: Tony Lewis
Sound Assistant: Christopher Atkinson
ADR Supervisor: Hugh Waddell
ADR Mixer: Peter Gleaves
ADR Editors: Tim Boggs, Richard Dwan Jr, Kimaree Long
Dialogue Editors: Richard Dwan Jr, Kimaree Long
Sound Effects Editor: Bryan Bowen

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Fae Hammond

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Waldo Mason

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Peter Chiang
Visual Effects Producers: Alex Hope, Fay McConkey
Digital Artists: Philip Borg, Aksel Studsgarth, Jeppe N. Christensen, Martin Gardeler
Digital Matte Supervisor: Dimitri Delacovias [uncredited]
Digital Matte Painter: Jim Bowers, Dimitri Delacovias
Lead Compositor: Mark Michaels
Digital Compositors: Mike Pope, Sheila Gorman
Lead Digital Artist: Jesper Kjölsrud
CG R&D Programmer: Martin Preston
Video Operator: Leon Buckley

Double Negative
Studio Manager: Pete Hanson
Head of 3D: Paul J. Franklin
Senior 3D Animator: Jake Mengers
Effects Animator: Gavin Graham
Senior Compositor: Rudi Holzapfel
Digital Compositors: Andrew Lockley, Chris Burn, Jody Johnson, Sarah Soulsby
Visual Effects Editor: John Seymour

Metrolight Studios
Executive in Charge of Production: James W. Kristoff [uncredited]
Executive Producer: Dobbie Schiff [uncredited]
Head of Production: John Follmer
Digital Artist: Jerry Weil

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Charles D. Lee, Charles Lee II
Supervising Art Director: Mark Harris
Art Directors: Mark Harris, Fred Hole
Set Decorator: Richard Roberts
Art Department Coordinator: Sarah Robinson
Graphic Designer: Carol Kupisz
Draughtsmen: Mark Bartholomew, Roger Bowles, Anthony Caron-Delion, Remo Tozzi
Junior Draughtsman: Gert Stevens
Sculptor: Bryn Court
Art Department Assistant: Alex Smith

MISCELLANEOUS
Floor Supervisor: Dave Eltham
Assistants to Director: Jules Baker-Smith, Camille Brown
Assistant to Sue Baden-Powell and Mark Indig: Tonia Wright
Production Assistant: Kenny MacDonald
Unit Publicist: Patric Scott

LOCATIONS
Locations: Lake Michigan, USA; London, England, UK; Muskegon, Michigan, USA

STUNTS
Stunts: Richard Bradshaw, Bradley Farmer, Theo Kypri

CASTING
Casting: Felicia Fasano, Daniel Hubbard, Anne McCarthy, Mary Vernieu
Background Casting: 2020 Casting Ltd, Chuck Douglas

CAST
Bruce Greenwood [Lt Brice]
Matt Davis [Captain Douglas O'Dell]
Olivia Williams [Claire]
Scott Foley
Zach Galifianakis
Holt McCallany [Lt Loomis]
Nick Chinlund [Chief]
Alexis Conran [Helmsman]
David Crow [Sonar]
DJ Perry [crewman]
Dexter Fletcher
Olivia Williams

The crew of a Second World War submarine find themselves at risk from more than simply the German forces that are hunting them when they encounter something nasty in the depths that gets aboard and starts killing the crew one by one.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Dimension Films

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: R [for language and some violence]

2002
May
30: Argentina - theatrical release

June
15: Russia - theatrical release

October
11: USA - theatrical release

November
21: Australia - theatrical release

Six hundred feet beneath the surface terror runs deep.

Proteus - working title

KEYWORDS

submarines; monsters; world war ii; underwater