First Images Surface From Brian Yuzna's Giant Scorpion Flick AMPHIBIOUS

Still best known from his long-running association with the Re-Animator films - some of which he directed, others of which he produced - Brian Yuzna has been absent from the directors' chair for a good few years now but he makes his return with Amphibious - a 3D creature feature now in post in Indonesia.

Marine biologist, Skylar Shane [Janna Fassaert], hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman [Michael Paré], to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' [sorcerer and master of black magic] shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Once Tamal arrives on the scene, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers are killed by a terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares. Now Skylar and Jack must battle the terror - once locked deep in the abyss by an old civilization, as it is now about to resurface...

We've been tracking this one for a while and now the first images have surfaced over at Undead Backbrain.  The effects work looks unfinished, frankly, but the overall look and feel is enough to leave me wanting to see more.  Check them out here.