…a sorry excuse for a thriller with a lot of black water and not much croc to go around…

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 30, 2023

Black Water: Abyss performs the work with above-average competence, but it struggles to stay afloat.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 20, 2023

One should never smile at a crocodile and Black Water Abyss certainly doesn’t raise a smile but there is also a disappointing lack of screams in this lake flaccid thriller that ultimately lacks bite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2022

This is a functional but utterly unengaged waste of 98 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 28, 2022

Low-budget Australian horror has violence, peril, swearing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 8, 2021

Black Water: Abyss can be put aside on your watchlist as late-at-night viewing when there is absolutely nothing else to watch.

| Nov 5, 2020

Engagingly realistic and intermittently scary.

| Oct 23, 2020

There are two types of people: those who enjoy movies about marine life messily devouring hapless humans, and those who've had all joy for life sucked from their marrow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2020

Traucki seems a bit lost in the scenario, permitting his underwhelming performers to blunder their way through a lot of gory back-and-forth with little sense of escalation

| Original Score: C- | Sep 3, 2020

creatures who are attracted to vibrations + complete darkness = scary.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Pretty flimsy...

| Aug 18, 2020

Director Traucki's non-sequel sequel to 2007's Black Water lacks all the requisite elements of a good thriller/horror, including thrills, horror, and a villain getting gory comeuppance.

| Aug 9, 2020

Black Water: Abyss is one of those movies that isn't particularly good but may not have to be if you're in the right mood.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2020

Traucki builds a mounting sense of claustrophobia and menace, and giving us only fleeting glimpses of the croc adds to the horror.

| Aug 7, 2020

I'm an admitted sucker for most movies in which animals hunt humans, and this team makes pretty damn good ones. (Like Black Water, The Reef, and this nifty nailbiter.)

| Aug 7, 2020

Black Water: Abyss will make you want to Crawl back into Lake Placid.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 7, 2020

Underwhelming and far from thrilling, Black Water: Abyss is a big, wet disappointment.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 7, 2020

This is an abyss that nobody is likely to gaze into for long.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2020

A tense thriller that nicely exploits a formulaic nature it doesn't quite transcend.

| Aug 5, 2020

Black Water: Abyss is an absolute blast! It delivers on exactly what genre fans want and serves up croc horror with a toothy grin.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 5, 2020