In Popular Culture
- Samuel L. Jackson's surprising death scene in the film appears on several lists of best movie deaths of all time - including Den of Geek's "10 surprise deaths in blockbuster movies", the list "Greatest Movie Deaths of All Time" and The Vine's "Top ten surprise movie deaths".
- Deep Blue Sea appeared on Mythbusters in the episode "Phone Book Friction" when they tested the many elements of the shark's death at the end of the film, with most being proven untrue.
- The Sealab 2021 episode "Tinfins" centers around the crew of Sealab making a movie which is an obvious spoof of Deep Blue Sea.
- Several film reviews, including Rolling Stone, have noted distinct plot similarities between Deep Blue Sea and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). Both stories center on researchers using genetic therapies on animals' brains in an attempt to cure Alzheimer's disease; therapies that inadvertently make the animals intelligent, enabling them to escape and cause murderous mayhem. Reviewer Peter Travers noted that the newer film has mixed "twists lifted from 1972's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and 1999's Deep Blue Sea."
- In the popular comedy series Chappelle's Show (Episode 2-1) Dave Chappelle plays Samuel L. Jackson in a beer commercial for "Samuel Jackson beer." Chappelle, as Jackson, yells at a restaurant customer drinking his beer: "You ain't ever seen my movies?... Deep Blue Sea? They ate me, a (expletive) shark ate me!" in reference to Jackson's death scene in the film.
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