James Cameron Produced Thriller ‘Sanctum’ Gets B-Movie Like Trailer

The basic shortcut to get James Cameron to produce your movie is to announce it in 3-D and in a unique location. And such is the case with his upcoming adventure thriller ‘Sanctum’ that besides the name of Cameron behind it, looks like a bad B-movie with a lot of camp value.

The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s team–including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)–are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?

From the cast to specific sequences in the latter half of the trailer, this looks to be a B-movie for the most part and not particularly interesting enough to sustain a feature length runtime. I’m sure shooting the movie in 3-D in such a location would’ve been a hard task, but the end result hasn’t impressed me yet. Maybe if Cameron would have directed and written it? We will never know.

Trailer below.