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An impressive eco-thriller that could do with more clearly delineated characters

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.


Rachel Carson; The Sea Around Us (1951)


From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers: 'We must procreate and mu...

It has a promising plot but somehow it lacked substance, especially towards the end of the film. Somehow I was expecting a conclusion to the entire “monster” situation, but then it was left unattended.
Overall, I enjoyed watching the film though. Would I watch it again? No. Would I make my friends watch it? Possibly.

Ultimately, while it gets a boost of inadvertent timeliness from the COVID-19 climate of pandemic paranoia, face-touching phobia and quarantined cabin fever, 'Sea Fever' is a fairly straightforward, even generic, blue-collar-workers-in-peril thriller.

Jake Watt

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I thoroughly enjoyed this. It's the first thing I've watched recently that didn't feel like they could (and should) shave an hour off of it. A nice, light watch that had a unique concept and a likable cast. I agree with others that the eye popping scene was about as intense as it got, with everyone else dying in fairly lackluster ways. I'm not normally one to say up the gore, but a bit more would have made the second half feel more intense and urgent.
I also couldn'...

Obviously done on a shoestring budget, this is actually quite an interesting little sci-fi/horror mystery. It all centres around the crew of a stranded trawler who come to realise that there is a malevolent beastie that has found it's way into their water supply after their boat strayed into a restricted area. Luckily "Siobhán" (Hermione Corfield) has some scientific skills and plans a way to stop this lethal parasite from killing (rather messily) not just the people on the boat...