The ocean keeps its secrets — until someone dares to return.
In The Mirmar: Revenant Depths, director Elias Brandt brings audiences back to the chilling depths of the Atlantic, where the sunken cruise ship Mirmar lies like a ghost frozen in time. While the original The Mirmar (2023) played like a claustrophobic maritime thriller, its sequel dives deeper — thematically, emotionally, and literally — into the wreckage of memory, grief, and the unknown.
Set three years after the tragic sinking of the luxury liner Mirmar, the film follows Dr. Mara Kessler, a deep-sea salvage expert haunted by her sister’s death aboard the doomed ship. When an anonymous funder offers her team a high-paying mission to retrieve classified cargo from the wreck, she sees a chance for closure. But as her submersible descends into the Mirmar's corroded chambers, strange phenomena begin: ghostly voices, impossible currents, and visions of the past that blur with the present.
The film builds tension not with jump scares, but through atmosphere — flickering lights, creaking bulkheads, and the eerie silence of the deep. Shot largely using practical effects and real underwater footage, Revenant Depths creates an immersive sense of dread that recalls The Abyss and Sphere, but with a more emotional core.
What elevates this sequel is its exploration of trauma. Mara isn’t just diving for answers — she’s diving into her own unresolved guilt. As her crew members begin to unravel under pressure and hallucinations, the Mirmar itself seems to come alive, as if responding to their fears. Is it a curse? A scientific anomaly? Or something more primal and unexplained?
The supporting cast, particularly Alex Wolff as a troubled sonar technician and Shohreh Aghdashloo as a corporate liaison with hidden motives, deliver grounded, convincing performances that keep the film from drifting into melodrama.
If the first film was about survival, Revenant Depths is about reckoning. It asks: What do we leave behind when we drown — and what comes back with us when we surface?
