Below is a 2002 World War II horror film directed by David Twohy. It was written by Lucas Sussman, Darren Aronofsky and David Twohy, and stars Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Matthew Davis and Holt McCallany.
It was filmed on location in Lake Michigan (for exteriors, using the WWII-era U.S. Navy submarine, USS Silversides) and at Pinewood Studios.
The USS Tiger Shark is a submarine on patrol in the Atlantic Ocean in 1943. The submarine is ordered to pick up survivors spotted adrift by a British patrol plane. At the wreckage, they retrieve three lone survivors – a British nurse and two sailors, one wounded – of a British hospital ship that was torpedoed several days earlier. After that, the Tiger Shark must avoid a German warship attempting to find and destroy them. The submarine has several encounters with the German warship and suffers heavy damage from depth charges in the process.
The Commanding Officer of the Tiger Shark, Lieutenant Commander Brice (Bruce Greenwood), discovers that the wounded sailor is actually a German POW, and shoots him because he thinks the German has been causing strange noises to attract the German warship. Meanwhile, eerie events begin to manifest themselves and seem to be related to the recent death of the previous captain, Commander Winters. Winters had been killed after the Tiger Shark torpedoed and sank a German ship. Winters had ordered the sub to surface and had then gone topside with his senior officers to make sure the ship had sunk and to see if there were any survivors. According to LT Commander Brice, Winters had wanted a souvenir from the wreck and had fallen and hit his head on the side of the sub while reaching for his souvenir, then fell into the ocean and drowned before he could be rescued.
However, as the eerie events mount – strange voices are heard, a series of mechanical problems keeps the submarine turning back towards the site of the sunken German ship, and crewmen are killed at an alarming rate from various problems – the British nurse and sailor, and one of the junior officers on the Tiger Shark, begin to suspect that more is going on than just mechanical problems. They also begin to question LT Commander Brice’s version of how and why Commander Winters died.
It turns out that the three senior officers, Brice, Loomis and Coors, were responsible for the death of Winters. The British ship’s design was almost perfectly similar to that of a German ship and the USS Tiger Shark had accidentally fired upon a friendly ship, the ship Claire and Kingsley were on. The three officers could not afford this blotch on their records and staged their own story, killing Winters who actually tried to save wounded in the ocean. This is discovered after Coors is mysteriously killed while working on the exterior of the sub and Loomis becomes crazed after seeing Winters on the ship and drowns outside. Everyone on board is killed except for a select few including Brice, O’Dell, Claire and others. Another ship comes around and everyone tries to get its attention but do not know if it is an enemy of ally. Brice shoots himself after Claire tries to persuade him to hand the gun over. He shoots himself again and the remaining survivors are picked up by a friendly ship.
