“Marred by Excessive Foul Language”
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What You Need To Know:
Based on a video game, IRON LUNG is entertaining and thought provoking, but overlong and sometimes slow. Great visuals and sound design amplify the horror. The movie could have enhanced these elements better, but it delivers a good adaptation of a video game. Horror movies seldom give their monsters very little screen time, but IRON LUNG does this to its advantage. IRON LUNG has a strong Christian worldview featuring sacrifice for the greater good. The hero decides not to seek his own personal gain but decides to fight for something greater than himself. Sadly, however, IRON LUNG contains at least 51 mostly strong obscenities, images of body horror, copious amounts of blood, and scary creatures. So, the movie has an excessive amount of unacceptable content.
Content:
Some very strong and strong violence inside two submarines traveling in a literal Blood Ocean where scary creatures lurk, one of the monsters is shown killing passengers on another submarine, the blood seeps into the submarine where the hero is living, man’s flesh begins to mutate grotesquely once he makes contact with the blood from the Blood Ocean, man is violently tossed around in the submarine and that causes bruises and cuts, man accidentally takes a radiograph of people working on a submarine and causes immediate radiation, horrific screams are heard through a submarine’s radio device, and an explosion occurs
No sex
Hero takes his shirt off for one scene
No alcohol use Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse; No smoking or drugs; and,
Man tries to steal resources from a space station and people appear to be lying to the hero.
More Detail:
During his first expedition into the Blood Ocean, Simon discovers there are creatures lurking in its depths. However, when he becomes trapped inside the SM-13 submarine beneath the Blood Ocean, he’s forced to put his freedom and possibly his life on the line to save humanity.
Based on a video game, IRON LUNG is an entertaining movie that centers around the stakes of both Simon and humankind’s survival. The entire screentime takes place inside the SM-13 submarine, with the movie’s main character, Simon, rarely interacting with anyone face to face. Simon serves as a great protagonist and is performed well by Mark Edward Fischbach, who’s also the movie’s director. Simon appears not as a man trying to be a hero, but instead as a man forced to be one.
The clever visuals and sound design in IRON LUNG make the viewer feel trapped inside the submarine, yet also scared that the hero will leave the submarine and encounter something even worse. Rarely are there times where ‘monsters’ in horror movies barely have any screen time, but IRON LUNG uses this to its advantage and showcases the creatures in unique ways that still cause terror. Examples include sounds heard outside the submarine, the submarine’s control panel and signals, and X-ray photos that show clear images of the monsters. The filmmakers could have enhanced these elements better, especially in the movie’s second half. Overall, however, the movie is a good adaptation of a video game, though it’s too long and slow in places.
IRON LUNG has a strong Christian worldview promoting sacrifice, where the reluctant hero decides to fight for something greater than himself. As such, the movie highlights the necessity of sacrifice for the greater good, a major point in the Christian faith’s message of Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice for the whole world. Sacrifice in the movie is not a choice to be good but an obligation for the greater good. Sadly, however, IRON LONG contains at least 51 mostly strong obscenities, gross images of body horror, copious amounts of blood, and scary creatures. So, the movie has excessive and unacceptable content overall.
