A faith-baiting extraterrestrial aquatic nightmare drowned by critics sends out a streaming distress signal

The battle between science and faith has provided cinema with food for thought dating back decades, but throwing so many disparate concepts into one movie in the hopes that at least a couple of them will stick ended up being the undoing of Immanence.

Arriving to little fanfare last year, the ambition of co-writer and director Kerry Bellessa can’t be faulted, but a Rotten Tomatoes audience approval rating of just 24 percent to along with a dismal IMDb user average of just 3.1/10 highlights the many glaring flaws in the genre-bending nightmare at sea.

However, tales of terror are always destined to find an audience on streaming regardless of what the consensus says, with Immanence back at it again after FlixPatrol revealed it to be one of the Top 10 most-watched features among Prime Video subscribers in the United Kingdom.

The narrative traces the misadventures of a ragtag band of astronomers, who deign to discover if a mysterious signal located near a meteor crash in the Bermuda Triangle will confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life once and for all. From there, scientific questions and ethical dilemmas meet spiritualism head-on as the crew can’t decide whether the disturbing events that transpire are otherworldly, or the work of the devil himself.

Immanence deserves credit for trying to do so much, but failing to adhere to a singular voice ends up proving detrimental in the long run, even if “aliens in the Bermuda Triangle” is more than enough to sell it to the less discerning on-demand crowds.