''Abyssal Spider'' (), also known as ''Mad Spider Sea'',
is a 2020 Taiwanese
monster
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thriller film
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directed by
Joe Chien.
It stars
Wang Yangming
Wang Shouren (, 26 October 1472 – 9 January 1529), courtesy name Bo'an (), art name Yangmingzi (), usually referred to as Wang Yangming (), was a Chinese statesman, general, and Neo-Confucian philosopher during the Ming dynasty. After Zhu ...
,
Zheng Renshuo, and
Ko Chia-yen
Ko Chia-yen (; born 10 January 1985), also known as Alice Ko, is a Taiwanese actress.
Career
Ko's debut acting role was in the 2006 film ''Do Over'', by award-winning director Cheng Yu-chieh. Subsequently, she had starring roles in the films ...
, and follows the crew of a boat threatened by a dangerous storm and a colossal aquatic
spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
.
The film was released in Taiwan on 11 September 2020.
Premise
During an attempt to rescue a
tanker in a storm, a search and rescue crew witnesses a large shadow beneath the waves and is pulled into the sea. Years later, lone survivor Ajie boards a boat which becomes lost in a storm, and must work together with his fellow crewmates to survive against both the weather and a number of creatures lurking underwater, including a giant aquatic spider.
Release
Marketing
A trailer for the film was uploaded to
YouTube
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on 19 August 2020.
A second trailer was released on 4 September 2020,
followed by a third trailer on 24 September.
References
External links
Official Facebook page*
2020 films
2020s monster movies
2020s disaster films
2020 thriller films
Disaster thriller films
Films about spiders
Films set on boats
Giant monster films
Kaiju films
Taiwanese disaster films
Taiwanese-language films
Taiwanese thriller films
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