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Into The Deep: The Submarine Murder Case (2022) Movie Review – A Shocking and Jaw-Dropping Documentary

A Shocking and Jaw-Dropping Documentary

Back in 1886, Robert Stevenson wrote the psychological thriller, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Within the book, Stevenson writes about the duality of man; the idea that every single one of us has a good and evil side within.

So why am I bringing this up here? Well, Into The Deep: The Submarine Murder Case essentially toys with this idea and across its 90 minute run-time, distorts and changes what we think we know about Peter Madsen eccentric Danish celebrity, Peter Madsen. Well known for making his own submarines, filmmaker Emma Sullivan sets out to profile the inventor and his newest creation, which happens to be a homemade rocket. What she captures instead, is beyond her wildest dreams.

For those unaware of this case, Into The Deep focuses on the events before, during and after the disappearance of Kim Wall, a charismatic journalist with a bright future ahead of her. When she dives with him in the UC3 submarine… and is never seen again. We won’t reveal what actually happens here as that would be a disservice to this fantastic documentary.

The format that Into The Deep uses is certainly unusual and to begin with, it feels quite uneven in both pace and tone. However, stick with this as 20 minutes in  you’ll be absolutely gripped.

This true-crime doc is uniquely positioned in the field because the footage captured here is raw and authentic, with actual shots leading up to and after the disappearance. With film crews operating around this time, we see Kim’s friends and colleagues genuinely concerned for her wellbeing and see how they adjust to different facts that come about when the submarine resurfaces. This really helps with the immersive feel of this.

Speaking of immersive, the archival news footage from the time really helps this one out a lot as well. Ordinarily this can give a documentary some extra flair but here it genuinely feels like you’re getting breaking news as the different anchors report on new findings. This is backed up by some newspaper clippings from the time, while the film constantly flits back and forth between the past and those aforementioned moments after Kim’s disappearance. The final scene of this is absolutely chilling too and one heck of a way to close things out.

Into The Deep is one of those jaw dropping documentaries that’ll catch you completely off-guard if you (like me) are unaware of this case. On the surface (I’ll try to keep the submarine puns to a minimum!) this looks to be a pretty perfunctory and simple story but once this film dives into the murky depths below, it reveals a shocking and sinister truth that’s hard to believe. This is an absolute must-watch.

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I bet Chris will take any opportunity to tell people that he’s been to Denmark therefore he’s cultured and worldly. Why would you need an excuse to watch a documentary? And why would ‘I’ve been to Denmark’ be an appropriate excuse? Should it be watched only be those with an excuse? Only those who have been to Denmark? Make it make sense.

We just watched it – my excuse being that I have visited Denmark often, and love the country and its people, and thought I might recognize some of the buildings. But, man…that ending. What an incredible documentary.

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  • Richard Dreyfuss will star in the movie Into the Deep , battling a killer great white shark.
  • It marks Dreyfuss' return to a shark-related movie since his role in Jaws in 1975.
  • Dreyfuss has continued to add to his impressive list of credits at the age of 76.

It is almost fifty years since Richard Dreyfuss faced down a great white shark in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws , and now he is about to do it all over again in the new movie Into the Deep . Releasing later this year, the movie is "about a group of divers searching for sunken treasure who witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but that is the least of their worries as a killer great white shark stands between them and their escape from the water."

Dreyfuss’ character in the movie has not yet been revealed, but he will star alongside Scout Taylor-Compton, best known for taking over Jamie Lee Curtis’ role of Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween , and Queen of the Damned ’s Stuart Townsend. The film is directed by Christian Sesma from a script by Josh Ridgway and Chad Law.

Movies featuring sharks , and other terrors of the seas, have always been popular in the horror genre. As one of the greatest thrillers of all time, Jaws certainly played a part in that popularity. Unlike his Jaws costars Roy Scheider, who appeared in Jaws 2 , and Robert Shaw, who starred in The Deep , Into the Deep marks the first time Dreyfuss has dipped his toe back into a shark-related movie since his appearance as marine biologist Matt Hooper in the 1975 film.

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Richard Dreyfuss Courted Controversy When Discussing New Oscar Inclusivity Rules

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Since his first uncredited movie appearances in Valley of the Dolls and The Graduate in 1967, Dreyfuss found great success in Hollywood from his 1973 appearance in American Graffiti – which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – through movies including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Stakeout , and Mr Holland’s Opus , to his most recent role in the 2023 biographical sports film Sweetwater.

At the age of 76, Dreyfuss has continued to add to his impressive list of credits, both in movies and on TV, and Into the Deep is just the latest of these.

Earlier this year, the actor was caught up in controversy when expressing his opinion on new rules implemented by the Academy in relation to how movies would need to meet “inclusion standards” in order to have a chance to win the biggest prizes available at the Oscars. Slamming the idea that changing standards in society should dictate who can and cannot play certain roles, Dreyfuss told PBS’ Firing Line in March:

“They make me vomit. This is an art form. It’s also a form of commerce, and it makes money, but it’s an art. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is. And what are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that. And you have to let life be life. Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a Black man? Is someone else being told that if they’re not Jewish, they shouldn’t play the ‘Merchant of Venice?’ Are we crazy? Do we not know that art is art?”

As someone who has been in the industry across seven decades, Dreyfuss has seen the changing face of Hollywood as much as anyone. However, it seems there are somethings that will always continue to circle back again and again, and just like the constant conversations about movie diversity, Dreyfuss’ return to the water will soon be coming around when Into the Deep is released sometime later this year.

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Into the Deep

The New Netflix documentary Into the Deep explores the Submarine Murder case of Swedish Journalist Kim Wall, by Danish Inventor Peter Madsen. It offers a deeper insight into the chain of events that led to the horrifying end.

The documentary is directed by Filmmaker Emma Sullivan and has a runtime of one hour and twenty-seven minutes.

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As pointed out by the director, the initial purpose of the documentary was to follow and cover the workings of Danish inventor and entrepreneur Peter Madsen. The director wrote to him about the project and was soon taken on board. However, everything changed on the 10th of August 2017, when Peter disappeared with journalist Kim Wall inside the submarine.

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The documentary has a non-linear pattern that constantly switches back and forth, starting from the day of the disappearance. We learn the chronology of the events as they happened, along with the result of the final trial. Notably, with this approach, the documentary will keep you invested and attached to the minute observations.

Along with Peter, the documentary also features a team of his interns and friends, that go through a serious transition of processing the events. In the footage before the day of the disappearance, we can see them describing Peter as an enthusiastic and passionate man. Moreover, they also hail Peter in some regards but definitely mention his shortcomings because, for them, Peter is almost like a jigsaw puzzle.

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They do their job and leave the so-called crazy genius with his inventions. However, it is only after the disappearance of the journalist, that the pieces of the jigsaw come together.

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It is important to note that the film footage was instrumental in the court proceedings following the trial. This is why there are many moments in the documentary which foreshadow the real nature of Peter and his brutal crime. Alas, everything only makes sense after the crime is committed.

Into the Deep will make you question many different things. Starting with a basic understanding of human nature and its duality. For instance, the vicious side of Peter is revealed layer by layer in the documentary. At first, he appears as a charmingly polite character, and then later a ruthless psychopath. The real-life depiction of events will surely give you the chills and horrific insights.

Into the Deep Final Thoughts

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Based on true events, this crime documentary is an unsettling watch. Which is definitely not designed for the faint-hearted. The documentary explores serious and sensitive themes and is an exceptional piece of investigative cinema. All in all, this Netflix documentary will definitely leave an effect on you.

You can stream Into the Deep on Netflix. Tell us your thoughts regarding the documentary in the comment section below.

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It’s fake

Imagine that. After having lived through this whole tragedy, and eventually moving on, I hear that Emma has finally finished her movie. I watch it and think she has done a fantastic job of portraying what happened and what it was like for us friends and volunteers. I am curious what others think of the film and therefore read a review and afterwards look at the comments to get an idea what regular people think.

There’s a single comment.

By random dude from the internet with no idea what he is talking about.

“It’s fake”

I’m sorry this person was so insensitive. I just watched and I thought it was really well done and I felt awful for the victim and her family but also his friends who he deceived.

You’re right. She’s done a fantastic job. I’ve just watched this and was blown away. The empathy when filming crew members grappling with the massive deception; the flash-forwards and flashbacks telling an in-depth story, slowly contradicting the first impression; the parallel montage playing off each other and heightening the horror… impressive documentary. I’m sorry for family and friends who carry this horror.

I thought it was well done slowly unfolding the horror and real nature of this monster.

I just watched it and it’s riveting. I kept asking myself if I’d have picked up on his true nature and was left still wondering. The clip of him describing human predators … WOW.

I just watched this documentary and found it to be very tastefully done, while portraying the events of an ugly demise. My heart bleeds for all the interns and friends who worked with Peter Madsen as it must be terrifying to learn that someone you are so close to and admire, is a murderer, and you had no clue who he really is. That would haunt me for the rest of my life. My heart bleeds even more for the family and boyfriend of Kim Wall. Something that was meant to be an exciting adventure for her abruptly ends her life. They too will be haunted for the rest of their lives. Such a terribly sad story 🙁

I agree…..the clip of him describing human predators is unnerving. It was as though he was purposely describing himself, knowing that the interviewer had no idea who he really is.

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Written by David Beton and directed by Kate Cox, Into the Deep is now available in theaters, on demand, and digital. When Jess (Ella Rae Smith, The Stranger ) is charmed by a handsome stranger (Matthew Daddario, Shadowhunters ), she joins him for a romantic adventure at sea.

However, the mood begins to shift when an injured woman (Jessica Alexander, A Banquet ) takes refuge on their boat. When accusations start flying, Jess finds herself unsure of whom to trust. Torn between Ben and Lexie, tensions rise as it becomes clear that the wrong choice could cost Jess her life.

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Screen Rant chats with Matthew Daddario about his new thriller and whether he'd ever want to return to the world of Shadowhunters .

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Screen Rant: You have a new movie coming out this week— Into the Deep . How did you get involved with this?

Matthew Daddario: I was actually...I was traveling for a wedding. And, of course, as an actor you receive information wherever you are—whatever you're doing, because you don't have your consistent work all the time, where you're like, "Okay, I got a job to go to on Monday. I'm going to take the weekend." It wasn't like that. I receive an email for this part: "Do you want to meet with the director?" Did all that and read the script and everything and I realized this is a great project. So I ended up missing a wedding for this filming. I did. Didn't I feel bad about it. But honestly, no, I really don't. Because I'm really happy that I did this movie.

Screen Rant: Oh yeah. I was going to ask if you at least enjoyed filming the movie.

Matthew Daddario: Oh, yeah, come on. I spent weeks out in Cornwall in a great little town that I had a great time at that I loved. It was awesome. A wonderful experience. Filming on this boat out on the ocean, seeing all of Cornwall, the people...just awesome. And great actors and great crew. It was an awesome experience, honestly. Really, really great.

Screen Rant: So how much were you actually on the water for? Were you docked anywhere for certain parts of the movie? Or are you out there all day?

Matthew Daddario: You're out there in the ocean. Look, if you're out in the ocean when you point that camera, you gotta look out and you gotta see the ocean, right? You can't see land unless that's part of the line, right? So we had to go out far enough that we're not surrounded by land? And then we've got to monitor the boat so it doesn't just move around, because the wind sure does like to move the boat and sometimes the sail's up. So we're out there. Yeah, we were out there. And we did a couple of weeks, three weeks, I want to say, out at sea. Two weeks? I don't know. And then two weeks, inside. Maybe three weeks. See, I don't remember. But we were really out in that boat. And the ocean is relentless and unforgiving, but it was very kind to us while we were there. So it was alright.

Screen Rant: Technically, your character is a sailor. Have you ever sailed before?

Matthew Daddario: When I was a kid, I did some sailing on those little...I think they're called Sunfishes. It's like a little two person and one person little boat and you go on a lake with them. And it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that. It was cool to learn how. So I got the basics of that boat. But then after that, in the course of your life nowadays, you're not really going on boats. Unless you're, you know, going on vacation and you get on a boat. Unless you're part of like a boating culture along the water, you're not doing that a lot. And I don't live near any kind of boating culture. So I don't really get on a lot of boats. So when they told me, "Hey, we're gonna be getting on this boat in the harbor," I said, "Sounds awesome." Sure, I like boats, whatever, you know, I'll be fine. Okay. But then you're out in the ocean and you're like, "Oh wow. How do people do this?" Gives you a lot of a lot of respect for the people that make their livelihoods on the ocean. Because that is...it's tough. It's tough.

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Screen Rant: That boat is small. How was it filming in such a confined space?

Matthew Daddario: On the inside, yeah. You know, it's funny. The boat is really cool. It's actually a British Channel Cutter...British...Oh, God, what's the word? Something-something Channel Cutter. And it's some sort of historic example of this kind of boat. It's a pretty significant boat and then beautifully maintained and restored. It's quite large and long. But you're right. Underneath is quite cramped. So filming in those areas is actually quite cool because it starts to change how you film things, and you're kind of in this claustrophobic, tight environment. And so it alters how you try to act for camera because it's a little bit tighter, you know. You have to consider lots of things. One thing you don't think about is that, and now I'm saying this and people are gonna look for it, I'm sure we screwed up every now and then. But when we're underneath, we're filming not actually out in the ocean. We're filming on set for underneath. But that means that the boat is still moving. And sometimes we're cutting right from the top where the boat is rocking. So that means when we're underground, we're on flat ground, and we've got to pretend that the boat is moving. So things are swinging and we're sort of walking wobbly. And you have to consider that the whole time. So there's an added layer of filming. Every now and then holding onto things...pretending that your legs are sort of unsteady. It was amusing. I think some of us were better at it than others. I kept forgetting. So look for it. Go out there and watch it and say, "Hey, look at him. What an idiot. He's not even pretending like he's on a moving boat."

Screen Rant: I'm sure people will look for it. I'm sure they will. Well, the cast is essentially just you, Jess, and Lexie. How was it working with a cast this size?

Matthew Daddario: It's great. That's one thing—I'm very happy that it was the two of them. Because if we had even one person who was not willing to deal with the somewhat harsh circumstances of filming on a boat...it's not the easiest environment in the world. Filming outside is always difficult, but on a boat, especially so. They were extremely patient, they were very tough. And thanks to that, we were able to always have a good time filming when it's possible that it could have gone to a negative place. So it was really an honor to work with them and I'm really happy it was the two of them. So it worked out great. We always were working with each other, we were always sort of supporting each other while we were on set, and that was nice, along with the director and the rest of the crew. We were always very close—physically, obviously. So it was great that everybody was so professional and likable.

Screen Rant: Okay...there is a Jet Ski in this movie. Did you get to ride it at all?

Matthew Daddario: No, I didn't! I'm gonna tell you, I wasn't even there when they filmed the Jet Ski riding scene. Somehow, I was not there for those moments. So I missed the moments when they're on the Jet Ski, except for when it's up against the side of the boat. And I want to file a grievance about that.

Screen Rant: I was hoping they at least gave you a test drive or something!

Matthew Daddario: Yeah, come on! It's a Jet Ski! I think the entirety of southern Florida is based off of the economy of Jet Skis. I know that's not true. It's a hyperbole. But I'm just saying...Jet Skis are awesome. People love them. It's a lot of fun. And it's a shame I didn't go out and ride one. I could have just gone somewhere and done it. You know, I'm sure there are Jet Skis available to me.

Screen Rant: It's not the same though.

Matthew Daddario: No, it's not. I want to do it on the movie Jet Ski. But I'm sure there's some insurance reasons—very good insurance reasons—not to let me do that.

Matthew Daddario, Ella-Rae Smith, and Jessica Alexander in Into the Deep

Screen Rant: Is the thriller genre one you're a part of often? Or is this something that you're newly getting involved in?

Matthew Daddario: I like revenge thrillers. This is a little bit different. So Into the Deep...the revenge element is not exactly clear and the motivations for it are not exactly clear. It kind of keeps you guessing. I don't really know what you would call this. It's sort of an interesting thing because you're always wondering who exactly is...you know that something's up with Ben. He's not totally on the level. But you don't really know what's going on with Jess's character and exactly what is driving her. So that kind of constant questioning really provides a little bit of stress through the film, and I quite like that. But I really like the revenge thriller. I love when there's a character in the beginning who's wronged in a serious, serious way, especially when it's a family-oriented thing, and then you just see that person go on that hunt. And it's just the best, honestly. It just satisfies something in you, you know? I'm not really motivated by revenge, but I sure do like to watch it.

Screen Rant: I mean, that's fair. I like to watch it too. Thrillers are a genre that people like so...

Matthew Daddario: Yeah, why not? It's awesome. It has thrill in the name!

Screen Rant: Exactly

Matthew Daddario: It's implied by the name. We understand—thrilling. It's thrilling! Go see Into the Deep because it's thrilling. It's a thriller, it says it and implies it. It's on a boat out in Cornwall.

Screen Rant: That would make a great byline. "It's a thriller."

Matthew Daddario: Thriller. You'll be thrilled to see it.

Screen Rant: While I have you, I know Shadowhunters ended a few years ago, but the fandom is still very active. There's still a lot of love for the show. In this world of reboots and revivals, if there was ever an opportunity to go back to that world, would you take it?

Matthew Daddario: It depends on so many factors. You need to have good material. You need to have good people involved. You need to have good production. Then you need to somehow organize all of that. There's a lot that would play into that. But if somebody decided this is the kind of thing that they want to do—they want to make—I'd certainly consider it. I'd evaluate it the same way I'd evaluate anything else—except with a little more enthusiasm, obviously.

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Into the Deep Chronicles the Monstrousness of Danish Inventor Peter Madsen

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In 2017, the world was riveted by the bizarre, grisly murder of Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall by the Danish inventor Peter Madsen , who had invited her to take a voyage on his homemade mini-submarine for an article she’d been working on. Wall was initially reported as missing, with Madsen claiming that he had dropped her off after their trip. With each new terrifying development in the case (and each new body part that washed ashore), Madsen changed his story — until the nauseating enormity of his crime became clear.

Turns out, Australian filmmaker Emma Sullivan was making a documentary about Madsen at that very minute. Into the Deep , which premiered at Sundance last night and will be on Netflix later this year, is the kind of film that, through the dark fortune of timing, starts off as one thing and then proceeds to become something far more important and disturbing, effectively interrogating itself. Sullivan had started filming Madsen a year before the Kim Wall murder. She was fascinated by this vivacious, outspoken autodidact engineer with dreams of building a private rocket — an “intercontinental ballistic missile passenger ship,” in his words — and the group of young, impressionable engineers and students and other outcasts he had gathered around himself. Sullivan kept shooting throughout Madsen and Wall’s initial disappearance, and then through his changing story, and his court case. (He was convicted of murder in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison.) She would eventually become a witness, and her footage would become evidence.

Sullivan never shot Wall, however, despite being embedded with Madsen’s assistants. They didn’t know about her either, which seems weird at first. (“Something in this story does not add up,” notes one of Madsen’s young workers early on in the case.) Until it becomes clear that they didn’t know about Wall because Madsen was deliberately keeping her existence hidden. And he was keeping it hidden because he already knew what he was going to do to her. And once you realize that, you have to take a minute to let the monstrousness of this whole thing sink in.

Sullivan intercuts between different timelines — really, different movies — so that we see earlier, happier days among Madsen’s crew, and the remnants of the cheerful, wide-eyed documentary she was making, alongside the agonizing drip-drip-drip of increasingly terrifying information. And the film becomes a kind of forensic visual mystery into itself. Revelations from Madsen’s trial put certain earlier scenes in a different light. An emerging timeline connects seemingly unimportant, disparate events — revealing sinister purposes hiding beneath throwaway text messages, or offhand comments, or even just an out-of-place object lingering in the background. (“Why do you need a wood saw on a steel submarine?” someone asks, long after it’s too late.)

So, we may get an early testimonial from a crew member — one woman, for example, talking about how Madsen saved her from a hard life — and, not long after, see them recalling other times when he has creeped them out. Indeed, despite his crew’s initial insistence that they couldn’t imagine him ever doing anything like this, Madsen appears to have given off any number of warning signs. But everyone was sucked into the vortex of his charisma. Not only did they brush off the warning signs, they appear to have fallen under a kind of collective delusion. “He makes you feel like you’re close to adventure and fairy tales,” one crew member says. Another calls him “the most epic person you’ve ever met.” And yes, these are all the same reasons why Sullivan was attracted to Madsen’s story in the first place; she recalls seeing a TED talk of his on YouTube as the impetus for wanting to make this film.

But once reality comes screaming back, everyone starts to see Madsen in the cold hard light of day, and we realize that we’ve been watching a horror movie all along. Or maybe that’s not the right way to describe it, since we already have some idea of where it’s all headed. Rather, the director Sullivan realizes that she’s been making a horror movie all along — and that at one point she herself, like several of the other women who worked with him, might have become Madsen’s victim. One of the final scenes is an interview Madsen gave her, in which he speculates, out of the blue, about being a serial killer: “There is the possibility that you’ve actually come upon a human predator,” he says, looking straight at her. Once a pointless aside, it’s now a chilling confession.

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‘Into the Deep’: Film Review

Emma Sullivan's riveting doc dives into her former friendship with submarine killer Peter Madsen and interviews his horrified volunteers.

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Documentary filmmaker Emma Sullivan was already there when inventor Peter Madsen’s submarine, the UC3 Nautilus, went missing off the coast of Copenhagen in August 2017, with journalist Kim Wall on board. Sullivan had been filming Madsen, a hobbit-y egotist with electric blue eyes, for 18 months, and until that day, she believed she was making a film about his attempt to blast into space on a scrappy, self-made rocket, with the help of a dozen unpaid volunteers who believed in his charismatic DIY hustle. Madsen is found and flashes a thumbs up to Sullivan’s camera. But Wall isn’t — and the documentary turns into a rare opportunity to study a murderer before his first kill. Restrained, humanist and chilling, “Into the Deep” is both a portrait of evil and a story of the workers left ashore floundering to understand how they devoted their lives to a fiend.

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He just couldn’t have done it, insists Sara, a young girl with wide eyes and a tousle of curly hair. Later, she shows Sullivan an old text message from Madsen: “I have (murder) a plan ready,” he wrote, describing how he’d bind, torture and dismember Sara on the Nautilus if she didn’t get back to work. That’s how Wall was killed. For her own comfort, Sara tries to wave the text off as a joke. But she can’t stop thinking about how he’d invited her on a private submarine trip, too.

Yet, Wall is human even in silhouette. When the volunteers think about her, they cry. It’s for Wall, says a volunteer, that she gives the police Madsen’s laptop password, where the investigators discovered his obsession with gruesome decapitation videos. Her empathy for a woman she’d never met stands in sharp contrast to the boss she thought she admired — but who once menaced her with a hot poker, an outburst that Sullivan caught on tape.

Sullivan shuns tabloid sleaze. She tells the story spartanly, without blood or lurid violins. Her restraint, even her near-absence from the camera, has the paradoxical effect of making the film feel more personal. A less-involved filmmaker wouldn’t feel guilty selling the sizzle.

Joe Beshenkovsky’s editing is crisp and cooly unsentimental, except for a ham-fisted insert shot of a boat named Ship of Fools. That jab doesn’t feel like Sullivan’s intention. Tech geniuses like Madsen exist in a permissive stratosphere. They are allowed, expected even, to be megalomaniacal kooks, a heroic model overdue to be questioned. Madsen’s oddities — his rage against authority, his Lothario compulsions, the German military uniform, his declaration of war against a rival engineering org, Copenhagen Suborbitals — were within the margin of error for disrupters. Until people realized they weren’t.

“Into the Deep” floats the idea that Wall’s murder was one more experiment, another test for Madsen to prove he could pull off the impossible. Or perhaps it was his escape from losing the space race to his competitors, who were weeks away from showing him up. “Your life will end in downfall no matter what you do,” Madsen tells Sullivan months before the slaying. A man like him may as well aim for “the most spectacular downfall.” Mission accomplished.

“Into the Deep” will release via Netflix on Sept. 30, 2022.

Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 26, 2020. Running time: 90 MIN.

  • Production: A Netflix presentation of a Plus Pictures production. Producers: Mette Heide, Roslyn Walker. Executive Producer: James Marsh.
  • Crew: Director: Emma Sullivan. Camera (color): Sullivan, Cam Matheson, Henrik Bohn Ipsen, Lars Skree. Editor: Joe Beshenkovsky. Music: Dickon Hinchliffe.
  • With: Peter Madsen, Emma Sullivan

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Into the Deep is a Netflix true crime film detailing the life of Peter Madsen and the events leading up to the Danish inventor's murder of top Swedish journalist, Kim Wall.

In the summer of 2016, Australian filmmaker Emma Sullivan — Into the Deep 's director — had been documenting Madsen's work for a year, not knowing that her film had captured a close look at the eccentric figure as he turned into a murderer before our very eyes.

Into the Deep provides an unprecedented portrait of Madsen whilst also tracking the impact of Madsen's crime on his enthusiastic team working alongside him at Rocket Madsen Space Lab (RML),

Where is Peter Madsen now? We've got answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the Netflix film below.

Is Into the Deep based on a true story?

Yes, Into the Deep is built out of a year's worth of observational footage filmed in the months leading up to and after Kim Wall's murder. The film introduces us to the Danish inventor who'd grown famous for building his own homemade, crowd-funded submarine and was determined to become the world's first amateur astronaut. 

Emma Sullivan had initially contacted him to produce a documentary about his life and work. She interviewed many of his enthusiastic fellow workers and filmed them working to realize his dream of going up in space, but unwittingly ended up on the ground as the case against Peter built up. 

Footage of his team hard at work on their latest project stands side-by-side with film showing those close to Madsen reacting as they learned about the incident on the submarine and as more and more details about the investigation into Kim's disappearance were revealed. 

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At the end of Into the Deep, the documentary reveals that some of the footage shown in Into the Deep "proved instrumental in his conviction".

Who was Kim Wall? What happened to her?

Kim Wall was an award-winning Swedish journalist who had written for notable publications like The Guardian, The New York Times and Vice. She had been given the opportunity to interview Peter Madsen aboard his submarine. She was due to move to Beijing but had decided to miss her own leaving party to spend the night aboard his homemade miniature sub, where Madsen killed her. 

The submarine sank on August 11 in 2017. Madsen was quickly pulled to safety by fishermen, though there was no sign of Wall, and Madsen subsequently gave several different accounts of what happened to her; initially, he said he had dropped Kim Wall off on land near a restaurant the night before and had not seen her since. On August 12, he said she had been struck by the submarine hatch and he had dumped her body overboard, then he later alleged Kim had died of carbon monoxide poisoning whilst on board. 

Madsen was in police custody since August 12, 2017. Prosecutors rejected Madsen's accounts. Police had found disturbing content on Madsen's workshop computer, and argued that tools had been taken onboard the submarine as part of his premeditated plan to murder her on August 10 (via BBC News ).

Where is Peter Madsen now? 

Peter Madsen was found guilty of Kim Wall’s murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2018. 

In 2020, Madsen was caught after escaping from Herstedvester Prison west of Copenhagen. BBC News reported that he had gotten out after threatening a prison employee, and he appeared to have some sort of object strapped to his waist which required bomb disposal specialists to attend the scene before he was taken back into custody and received more jail time for his escape attempt. 

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In this intense action-thriller, Jess (Ella-Rae Smith) is swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger named Ben (Matthew Daddario), who takes her to his boat that’s docked nearby. Dangerously adrift miles from shore, their romance is interrupted when Lexie (Jessica Alexander) shows up, and soon the three get wasted and play sexy games. When the party takes a sudden turn for the worse, it’s clear that either Ben or Lexie is a dangerous liar. In the explosive climax, Jess must decide which one to help...and which one to destroy.

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It takes a lot for a new children’s book to become broadly popular, but 2016’s The Wild Robot did just that with its simple but heartfelt story about a robot that finds itself accidentally stranded on an island, forcing it to adapt to a world for which it was not programmed. That instant classic status has now been solidified with its adaptation into an animated movie of the same name .

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