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- 2020
- TV-14
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 35 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Siobhán's a marine biology student who prefers spending her days alone in a lab. She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must ove...
Directed By: Neasa Hardiman
Written By: Neasa Hardiman
- 2020
- TV-14
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 35 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Gunpowder & Sky
- 1 h 35 m
Sea Fever
60
6.1
Where to Watch
Summary Siobhán's a marine biology student who prefers spending her days alone in a lab. She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must ove...
Directed By: Neasa Hardiman
Written By: Neasa Hardiman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
60
62% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
38% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
60
62% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
38% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is an intimate film with grand ideas, a small boat floating on a giant ocean, and the extraordinary discovery at the heart of the narrative is outweighed by the sense as a filmgoer that we’re seeing a talented director coming to the surface, sticking her tendrils in, and reshaping our expectations as we’re taken along for the journey.
While Hardiman couldn’t have foreseen the elevated commentary her film would take on six months after its TIFF debut, it’s refreshing to have a film that takes itself so seriously by refusing to sacrifice its moral stance in order to satiate the anxieties of viewers—anxieties that have become more prescient than anyone could have imagined.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
6.1
45% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
41% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
14% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
6.1
45% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
41% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
14% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Finally! A movie with an ending I didn't hate. Seems like all these modern movies get off on trying to throw you a super lame curveball in the last 3 minutes that actually make you go from liking a movie to hating it. This one had an ending that only made the first parts of the movie stronger. You know, the way an ending should be. Great acting, cool premise, eerie vibes. The only movie I have recommended in a while.
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At first I thought I might not like this movie. It had a really slow start. I hate most modern horror movies. This one was great. The cinematography, acting and writing were great. The special effects were amazing. My only critic was that a few of the charters made decisions that didn't seem correct.
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And suddenly, amid the claustrophobic compositions and shadowy hallways and tick-tick-tick of inevitable sickness, Sea Fever goes from being a monster movie to an eerily timed example of pandemic horror. Coming to a TV screen in a near you in the middle of a quarantine, this exercise in it-came-from-below suddenly takes on a whole other level of resonance.
We can feel a richer idea tingling just beneath Sea Fever’s skin. But Hardiman never roots it out, opting instead for a restraint that is often admirable, but also dampens the film’s potential power.
Sea Fever teases out elemental anxieties that have been given fresh life by unfortunate reality, but the movie is worth seeing because, when all’s said and done, it gives us characters and circumstances we can care about.
As Jaws and all the best predecessors have shown (John Carpenter’s The Thing also seems like a major reference), you really need to care about the crew before they’re eaten, and Hardiman doesn’t draw strong enough characters for us to latch onto.
Sea Fever proves better in concept than in execution, let down by a second act of fumbled editing and slackened tension.
This is a very good nautical thriller that borders the horror genre. Upfront, you will see some disturbing images during a viewing of this film, but for the most part it’s all done in taste or for the explicit reason of progressing the story. All of the elements that make a good movie are well balanced here. The casting and dialogue are wonderful. The directing and cinematography is fantastic. The setting and acting are solid. The problem is we’ve seen it all before, possibly in TV shows and other movies you hold dear. While it’s not the most original story, I still believe that it is worth a watch. I think the weakest part of the film is the music. It’s more ethereal so the instrumentation doesn’t fit with the setting for my tastes. Mostly electronic it does it’s job to underscore the drama on screen and wasn’t good or bad, it’s just unmemorable for a film where the visuals and visual effects are pretty good.
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A total waste of time. The pace is boring, the concept of whatever it is that is killing them is barely worked out and makes little sense. It is just a weak story with rather flat characters. Yawn!
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(Mauro Lanari)
Undecided about its own shape, it switches between creature feature, epidemic thriller and environmental drama without anything disturbing, but with the certainty of clumsily imitating far better films. Blasphemous compare it to Ripley's saga.
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Production Company
Bright Moving Pictures,
Creativity Capital,
Epic Pictures Group,
Fantastic Films,
Film i Väst,
Flexibon Films,
Frakas Productions,
Makar Productions
Release Date Apr 10, 2020
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline Uncharted. Undiscovered. Until now...
Awards
DaVinci Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
• 1 Nomination
