Sea Fever

This is a suspense film for adults. No big battles with a mysterious sea creature, just a plausible story with realistic characters. The pace is slow and moody, so this may not be for everyone, but I thought it was well written, with good performances and a creepy atmosphere. The visual effects are subtle but effective. The performances are raw and real. The film even takes the time to explain some ancient ocean lore and blends it into the story.

If you are seeking thrills and jump scares, this is not for you. If you enjoy a good story, told with style and thought, you will appreciate this film.

Horror at sea - it's a theme that I always crave, as well as creature features, eco horrors and lovecraftian vibes. Luckily, "Sea Fever" happens to be a bit of all that. There's no denying I had high hopes and some certain expectations which resulted in a bonus side dish of underwhelment, well, whether because of that or the actual flawed nature of "Sea Fever", for it might be a bit better in concept than execution.

A quiet, shy but clever science student Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) is put on a fishing boat to do a marine research assignment, and takes a turn in journey to becoming a heroine as the crew encounter a mysterious and threating sea creature. Very quickly into the movie the viewer can rest assured he's in for a good-looking sea adventure, for it is aesthetically well executed via solid cinematography and subtly beautiful production design and cgi. The boat carries 7 passengers, all of which are painted neatly and realistically, albeit typically. As time passes, a wish for more innovative characters inside such a situation surfaces, eventually the fates of some miss the emotional hit it intends to have. Nevertheless, the cast certainly does a good job, my personal favorite being Ardalan Esmaili.

The first act is the one that, near the end of it, delivers some lovecraftian vibes, as the gooey, tentacly creature comes up from the depths of the sea. From here on, "Sea Fever" makes it known it's not exactly a classic creature feature & becomes more of an eco horror, with some key themes coincidentally very relevant to the current time of an pandemic - our main heroine has to fight for the right decisions in an event of infection and a need for quarantine. The underwhelment distills from the fact that "Sea Fever", during the better part of the second and third acts, struggles to maintain tension and frequently loses the effect of its atmosphere, in process making the pacing uneven and punches - lesser. As far as a fever goes, it doesn't quite manage to rise your temperature that high.

"Sea Fever" doesn't hide its influences & John Carpenter would probably be pretty happy, because, despite all, it stands very much on its own, a smart and handsome thriller that couldn't escape the fate of some bugging flaws. My rating: 6/10

It's basically a dull Alien ripoff but without a great monster, lifeless forgettable characters, etc. If you've seen the original Alien or any of the knockoffs, you've seen this a million times. The ending is interesting but getting there is tough. The stakes never feel real. The danger doesn't feel immediate. It isn't exciting. You can easily read what will happen far in advance so you're just sitting there, watching it go through all too familiar beats. It's like Harbinger Down but both are pretty weak imitations of better films. Sorry I was really hoping this would be good.

You like parasites like thaw or the strain this is a pretty good movie for you, you like good acting this has it in some parts, does the murky depths and unknown sea freak you out, check it out. Then again if you like a well written thought out characters, I feel this is where it fails, they never really come to fruition. Seems as if they wanted to make you feel for all of crew but sort of made you feel meh for all, the ending scene made me go like well that's kinda stupid, decisions were lackluster and the ideas came out of thin air. Had me looking at the screen going but why though. But it was still well shot, so if you can give up on some script and just enjoy the dark oceans. Have Fun

Greetings from Lithuania.

I thought from a premise and small budget that "Sea Fever" (2019) is going to be a very small little B horror flick set in one location and with some monster running around which you can't actually see because of how small the budget is. After seeing a movie I was glad that I was wrong. This movie was actually way much better then I thought it will be. It had something more to say then just of being a horror flick. Acting by a young lead was very good - i really liked her character. Also two veterans were very solid. We need heroes like main character of this movie in a real life, when unfortunately now in a real situation with infection in our world you see every day people that act oppositely and take no responsibility in their actions.

Overall, "Sea Fever" is a really good little movie which isn't much of a horror flick but uses that situation to say something more.