Uncharted. Undiscovered. Until now...
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
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Classical in form, contemporary, intimate and grave.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20226/10
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, but anyone they come into contact to. Rather prudently, it does not try to blow us away with fancy special effects. The use of light on the water and some basic microbe imagery conjures enough just enough sense of menace to keep the plot interesting; as do the efforts from a confident Corfield alongside Dag Malmberg and Olwen Fouéré - and Jack Hickey is quite easy on the eye, too! The script is nobody's finest work, and it is a mite too long - but it delivers well enough within it's limitations and kills 90 minutes on the television fine.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Stephen Campbellon TMDB · Mar 20207/10
**_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 multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings – algae, whales, sea monsters – revelling in an orgy, from the surface to_ _the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here._ - Isaac Bashevis Singer; "Hanka"; from _Passions and Other Stories_ (1975) The debut feature from writer/director Neasa Hardiman, _Sea Fever_ examines such issues as humanity's disregard for the size of our ecological footprint, the knee-jerk argument that if something hitherto unknown can't be exploited for profit then it should be destroyed, and Mankind's utter insignificance in the face of the wonders of nature. Heavily influenced by David Cronenberg's body horror films, Ridley Scott's _Alien_ (1979), and John Carpenter's _The Thing_ (1982), i
Read the whole review on TMDB - SWITCH.on TMDB · Jun 20205/10
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 Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-sea-fever-paranoia-parasitic-plagues-and-pandemic-horror
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Cast
- Hermione CorfieldSiobhán
- Ardalan EsmailiOmid
- Olwen FouéréCiara
- Jack HickeyJohnny
- Elie BouakazeSudi
- Dougray ScottGerard
- Connie NielsenFreya
- Dag MalmbergProfessor
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- Neasa HardimanDirector
- Neasa HardimanWriter
- Ruairí O'BrienDirector of Photography
- Christoffer FranzénOriginal Music Composer
- Barry MoenEditor
- Julian UlrichsEditor
- Brendan McCarthyProducer
- John McDonnellProducer
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