It was 35 years ago this week that writer/director James Cameron released The Abyss. Hot off the success of Aliens in 1986, Cameron delivered an original science fiction action thriller about the crew of a deep-sea oil drilling platform forced to help a SEAL team recover a sunken nuclear sub from the deepest depths of the Caribbean before the Russians can find it first. Oh yeah — there’s something else down there as well, and it ain’t a school of fish unless they’re purple and glowing.
