'Sea Fever', released straight to Video on Demand in 2020, is a neat little engrossing film in which a Marine Biologist joins a fishing trawler and its crew for a trip to sea off Ireland.
On their voyage they run into, literally, an unknown creature of the deep, mooring their ship for a short period of time, and then they are suddenly released. The crew, thinking they’re safe, press on with their trawling task, but quickly realize that whatever held them up previously left them a vicious little gift. A murderous microscopic parasite, which is quite befitting to the current times of our 2020 world.
This film plays in the realm of the Deep-Sea Horror and Outbreak sub-genres, as the movie poster above states "The Abyss meets The Thing". It is outfitted with great acting, a tense build-up, claustrophobic settings, and an overbearing fear of the unknown unseen killer aboard the ship. 'Sea Fever' steers clear of jump scares and horrific gore to entice the watcher, and instead relies on the suspense atmosphere and what most people fear in reality, micro-organisms that are nearly unbeatable.
The down side to 'Sea Fever' is that the story itself has been done before, and has a slow moving plot. Which, I don't hold the slowness of the movie against it but the intensity could've been ramped up later in the movie to give it more oomph and solidity.
I do sit here wondering, though...if there wasn't a quarantine currently going on in our lives, and not as many Horror movies to choose from in 2020, would 'Sea Fever' have even passed my radar? Perhaps not...but it has, and here we are!
'Sea Fever' can be streamed for free on Hulu and Hoopla, as of 7.21.20. You can see more about 'Sea Fever' on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2716382/?ref_=tt_urv
Here's my Bloody O'Graph for 'Sea Fever'
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