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6 unusual facts about The Abyss


Kidd Brewer

His son, Pierce Oliver "Kidd" Brewer Jr., a professional diver, appeared in the James Cameron films Piranha II: The Spawning and The Abyss.

Procedural surface

Another example of a procedural surface is a Blob as illustrated in movies like The Abyss in the scene where the creature made up of water reaches out and touches the character.

Randy Waldman

He has performed on hundreds of major studio film soundtracks including Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ice Age, The Bodyguard, Beetlejuice, Mission: Impossible, Romancing the Stone, The Abyss, and Titanic.

Super 35

James Cameron was an early, consistent, and vocal supporter of the format, first using it for The Abyss.

Titanium ring

A titanium wedding-ring is used as a minor plot-point in the 1989 science fiction film and novel The Abyss.

Too Much Pressure

The title track "Too Much Pressure" was featured in the film The Abyss.


Brea Olinda High School

Though not an alumnus, James Cameron, Director of such blockbuster films as Terminator 2, Avatar and Titanic lived in Brea and drove the lunch truck for BOUSD food services while writing The Abyss

DeepStar Six

DeepStar Six is one of myriad underwater-themed movies released around 1989, including Leviathan, The Evil Below, Lords of the Deep, The Rift (Endless Descent) and The Abyss, the latter of which was the only successful entry among these aforementioned movies both at the box office and with film critics.

Hoyt Yeatman

In 1979 Yeatman, Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a groundbreaking visual effects house, winning the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1989 for the motion control and underwater effects in The Abyss.

John Knoll

Knoll was also the Computer Graphics Project Designer on The Abyss, an achievement which earned ILM its tenth Academy Award for Visual Effects, and worked on two Star Trek episodes - Star Trek: The Next Generations pilot episode ("Encounter at Farpoint") and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers".

Lords of the Deep

It was one of many underwater-themed movies released around 1989; similar films distributed during that time-frame included: The Abyss, Leviathan, DeepStar Six, The Evil Below, and The Rift (Endless Descent).

The Evil Below

It is one of many underwater-themed movies released around 1989, including The Abyss, Leviathan, Deepstar Six, Lords of the Deep, and The Rift (Endless Descent).

William Wisher, Jr.

He also has a cameo appearance in Terminator 2 as a man who takes pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 Terminator getting back on his feet after being thrown through a store window, and as news reporter Bill Tyler in James Cameron's 1989 film The Abyss.


see also

Adam Hauck

Some of Adam's recent work can be seen in the DVD documentary features he has written and produced for Gary Ross's Seabiscuit, James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss, Joss Whedon's Serenity, and Joe Carnahan's crime thriller Smokin' Aces.

Don Lynch

He co-authored the book Titanic: An Illustrated History in 1992 with Ken Marschall and later co-authored Ghosts of the Abyss.

Fire in the Abyss

Fire in the Abyss is a science fiction novel by Stuart Gordon, pen name of Richard Gordon, (1983), having as its main character the Elizabethan adventurer Humphrey Gilbert, an actual historical figure, as a time traveler.

God and the Abyss

Similar in vein to the sound of Joy Division, Bauhaus and other post-punk goth rockers, God and the Abyss was a long journey that lasted from the first recording in 1985 to the final release in 1997.

Hank Moody

Interestingly, three of Hank's novels, South Of Heaven, Seasons In The Abyss and God Hates Us All are named after the albums by the American thrash metal band, Slayer.

Muhammad Shah

After entering Delhi, Nadir Shah claimed to occupy the Mughal Empire out of religious devotion and that if "the wretched Marathas of the Deccan" moved towards Delhi, he might "send an army of victorious Qizilbash to drive them to the abyss of Hell".

Ping Pong over the Abyss

The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."

Portrait of the Abyss Within

Portrait of the Abyss Within is the fifth album by Eldritch, released in 2004.

Three Versions of Judas

"God became a man completely, a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of being reprehensible - all the way to the abyss. In order to save us, He could have chosen any of the destinies which together weave the uncertain web of history; He could have been Alexander, or Pythagoras, or Rurik, or Jesus; He chose an infamous destiny: He was Judas."

Wand of Orcus

In the adventure The Throne of Bloodstone, the player characters may obtain the Wand of Orcus, and flee with it from the Abyss to the Seven Heavens.

Wind from the Abyss

Wind from The Abyss is a fantasy novel by American writer Janet Morris, published in 1978.