Dead in the Water

I don't know if there are crews made up of only women, but certainly this is the most original element of the film: moreover the girls are cute and nice.

That this atmosphere is destroyed by a male body could perhaps be a feminist suggestion, almost like saying "we were better off alone".

And the nocturnal atmosphere is well rendered.

But in the initial part there is a heavy ellipse (not seen when the three girls return to the ship and carry the body) and the special effects are sometimes repulsive.

Furthermore, the director interrupts too often with shots of the boat in the storm.

A crew brings aboard a guy who is infested with some unknown parasite and causes real havoc on the all female crew ship, and they all start being killed. This film just reminded me on why I don't watch the syfy channel.

Bunch of girls on a ship chasing naughty illegal Chinese fishermen get themselves into a tizzy when the engine claps out.

With no men on board to help they are left to scream and panic. Part Alien part Descent part lots of things.

Not very good. Acting just about passable. Story pretty pathetic. They should have known to take a man along. Bruce Willis would have solved their problems in the first act with his brute strength and intelligence but sadly he was not on board.

Had a couple of good ideas but in the end was not really much of anything. Passable if you are bored on a wet Sunday afternoon.

While this film wasn't a bad little time waster..it was lacking the buoyancy to keep it afloat...I wanted to like it more as it started to show strength by the 2nd act...but couldn't hold it above water.. It was good to see an all female cast. Decent acting for the most part considering the C list factor.

But in reality when you try to storyboard a mixture of Alien..The Thing..into an X-File-ish type of made for TV movie on a boat at sea the results will be as murky as the waters you're trying to navigate.

As our 5 female protagonists are out to sea attempting to capture illegal fishing operators they come across a man in a life raft from somewhere and assumed to be dead. They bring him aboard only to realize he isn't.

After a confrontation he is killed and they realize he has been bitten or sucked on by something. An autopsy reveals a living entity inside him which has now escaped and looking for hosts. Well...look no further!!.

At this point you could insert any one of the xenomorph scenes from Alien or the Thing into the remainder of the film..with the same results. Call it a "professional pilfering" The flow of the film was good..film stock adequate. It had good moments of suspense and the CGI was used sparingly to good effect and complemented the makeup when required.

As predictable as it is Dead in the Water is still a decent watch at a 5 fishes out of 10..but you're in this liferaft alone...

This had a fair amount of atmosphere for the first hour and was well crafted with the budget. Reviews are very skewed and unfair these days with people rating this a 1 which means it is the worst movie you have ever seen...really?

No to be fair this is at least a 5/10 as I always try and base my reviews on the acting and budget as well as all the other things that make up a movie and to be fair the acting was not that bad and the atmosphere, model ship and wave effects were pretty convincing apart from when they were actually on the ship and it was obvious someone was spraying with a hose lol but that is something one should be used to with low budget horror films and unlike most Scifi channel productions this one comes out on top of the usual dross.

The only part where it was let down was with the creature itself although i did like the use of THE STRAIN wispy tendril effects used on many other movies like THE SAND and other horrors as it does have a rather sinister and scary vibe going on. It fails mostly on the lack of tension towards the last half of the film and like most low budgeters these days it seems to run out of steam mid way to the end.

All in all a decent nights viewing and much better than most of the nonsense I have watched lately so gets a fair slightly above average 5.5/10 from me!