The Abyss Dvd Menu Access

To pick a scene, you had to navigate your cursor through this drowned tomb. It felt invasive, like walking through a shipwreck. You half-expected one of the tiny thumbnail images to suddenly show the alien’s silver face staring back at you. In the age of Netflix and Disney+, we have lost this tactile relationship with the film’s atmosphere. When you click The Abyss on a streaming service, you get a generic synopsis and a trailer. You miss the ritual.

If you ever find a copy of The Abyss on DVD at a thrift store, buy it. Not just for the film, but for the five minutes you’ll spend sinking into that menu. They don’t make depths like that anymore. the abyss dvd menu

The menu options— —were rendered in a simple, thin, pale blue font. They hovered on the right side of the screen like a heads-up display on a submarine sonar screen. To pick a scene, you had to navigate