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Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)

Open Water 3: Cage Dive poster
Original title
Cage Dive
Directed by
Gerald Rascionato
Genre
survival horror, natural horror film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
R
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 354 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Three American tourists on a reality TV audition go cage diving in Australia. Their boat capsizes from a rogue wave leaving them stranded in the open ocean. The film is presented as recovered first-person footage of their struggle to survive.

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What happens

Open Water 3: Cage Dive is a 2017 Australian found footage survival horror film directed and written by Gerald Rascionato, and released by Lionsgate. The third installment of the Open Water film series — although the film is a standalone sequel and only connects to the other films in theme, not continuity — the plot follows a trio of vacationing Americans in Australia who are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality TV show on a cage diving excursion. Before they know it, a rogue wave capsizes and sinks their boat leaving them stranded in the ocean. The film is presented as a mockumentary and perpetuated as true events; though most of the film is first person footage from the characters with time stamps throughout, in the vein of Paranormal Activity. The film bears similarities to another 2017 shark attack survival film featuring a cage dive excursion gone wrong, 47 Meters Down. The method of "cage dive disaster" in each film differs with Cage Dive involving a rogue wave capsizing the boat while the former film sees a rusty winch break, trapping the protagonists underwater within the cage. The notable difference between these two films is that Cage Dive does not keep its protagonists within the cage, but rather leaves them in the open water among hungry sharks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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