AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM apparently drawing from PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES.

And what is PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES? Why, this: a 1960s Italian camp flick that apparently you can’t get anymore because it actually doesn’t suck at all.

James Wan – who directed the first AQUAMAN, and who had to be watched like a hawk lest he turned it into a Cthulhu Mythos horror movie* – says that the above flick is going to be an inspiration for the sequel. And you know something? I’m down for that. The aesthetic intrigues me and I was upset there weren’t more Deep Ones in the first movie.

Moe Lane

*Note that I would have been upset about that… for not knowing ahead of time.