In Too Deep (1989 film)

In Too Deep is a 1989 erotic thriller film.

Producer Colin South later said "It was a very moody European type of film. I’m not ashamed of it...the intention for the film was not even an arthouse release."

Cast Santa Press as Mack Hugo Race as Wendy Rebekah Elmaloglou as Jojo John Flaus as Milas Dominique Sweeney as Dinny Craig Alexander as Ivan Gerda Nicolson as Mr Lyall Sheryl Munks as Girl on street

Production The film was raised through private investment including the producers own money. Two weeks into the five-week shoot a major investor pulled out but they managed to complete the film.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p132-133 It was shot under the title Mack the Knife.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p87

John Tatoulis later stated: I was interested in two things in In Too Deep: one was the corruption of innocents and the other was the strengths and weaknesses of sexuality. And I wanted to set it in an urban landscape. What I was really keen to do was create a mood and a feel through a variety of ways. I believe that film is like a tapestry and all the components that go to making the texture of that tapestry are all important: sound, pictures, editing, performances, direction. If one doesn't work, then the final tapestry won't have the texture the director had in his or her mind to start with. If a film doesn't have a feeling, a feeling that has a texture to it, then it's lacking. So that was something I was very keen to explore: how do I give this film a feeling of claustrophobia, a feeling of heat, a feeling of menace and vulnerability.. Retrieved 11 October 2012

Release Despite the film's low budget it managed to be widely seen around the world on video. South reflected in 1995, "We borrowed the money and we’re still paying it off [laughter], but it did achieve a couple of things. It got recognition for the cinematographer with the A.C.S., and it got good critical response. We didn’t and still haven’t sought a theatrical release for it, though. I suppose the values that we placed upon it were not the same values that a theatrical release would have required." References

External links

In Too Deep at Oz Movies