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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 5

  Imagine an X-Files episode that was just what happened before Scully and Mulder showed up to investigate.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★½ 1

  I really enjoyed this. Often the best films are those that are not confused about what they are and don't try to be anything else but that.

  Sea Fever is a single location monster movie, inspired by and (sometimes too) heavily borrowing from many of it's big brother predecessors. Which is absolutely no problem as it gives us a taut and highly enjoyable film.

  The characters are given to us in broad strokes, but enough for us to care about what happens to them. The monster is interesting and beautifully designed. But what works best is the claustrophobic nature of the setting, giving that wonderfully tense sensation of inescapable dread.

  All in all, if this type of movie is your thing you really should check it out.

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★½ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Frustrating, as this hints at being a Stuart Gordon-influenced creature feature that's riddled with glowing beasts and gross body horror, but ends up playing it too classy for its own good. In short, once the eyeballs started exploding, it's disappointing that the director was like "you know what we need now? A lot of debate and hand-wringing" instead of just letting faces melt into a parasite-infested sea. *Shrug*

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  Review by 1313: Tony the Terror🌨️ ★★★★ 5

  Anyone who follows me on here knows I love underwater horror so I always get pretty giddy when I stumble onto a new one. In spite of going a little too hard at a friends birthday last night and paying for it severely all day, I still managed to stay upright after work long enough to watch this and I’m glad I did. It was storming like crazy outside which made the mood ideal.

  This actually takes place mostly on the surface of the water, but it still counts to me. A fresh faced and socially awkward scientist joins a a very weathered fishing boat crew (Connie Nielsen is borderline unrecognizable) and the next thing you know they’ve discovered a…

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★

  Mostly establishing its anxieties and uncertainties out of character-based tensions than from the terror in the ocean, Sea Fever is a rather enjoyable and sombre monster movie. It's writer and director, Neasa Hardiman, has unintentionally given rise to a film that almost talks directly to our contemporary global emergency, where the adversaries are practically invisible and where people are required to begin a quarantine situation.

  For the duration of its run time, it's a substantial little monster movie which competently demonstrates that it's budgetary restrictions are not a problem by conveying more through suggestion than what is displayed, and by building the apprehension in a slow-burning manner, which works well within its isolated setting, the film experiments with a variety of practical strategies to generate an effectively chilling low budget horror thriller.

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  Review by Lebowskidoo 🍿🛸 ★★★★

  Nothing like a movie about isolated folks fighting an infectious parasite that blows out out your eyeballs to really take your mind off the current worldwide pandemic.

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  Review by marcricov ★★½ 2

  Strong performances aside, what’s most disappointing about Neasa Hardiman’s nautical sweat-box isn’t that it suffers from a clear identity crisis or that it promises more nail-biting sequences than it delivers, but the fact that it gets flooded with too many ideas and we, as an audience, never really know how to feel about all the aquatic craziness going on.

  Part viral-horror part sci-fi fantasy, there are some great moments to be found on board this damaged vehicle of a movie, but the constant drift between a variety of genres leaves the emotional weight of its murky narrative ultimately drowning in its own ambitions. It just needed to commit to a sole purpose - to scare, to enthral, to teach, to…

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  Review by Hungkat ★★½

  If you feel unwell, please stay quarantined. How many times do they have to tell you that?

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  Review by Helen_S ★★★★

  What a lovely surprise. I just went into this expecting some dumb sea monster fun but it was bloody brilliant!

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  Review by David James ★★★ 11

  Aquatic horror just hits different, and it's a flavor I tend to drink deeply. There are so many fun variations: real sharks (Open Water, Jaws), nonsense sharks (47 Meters Down, Deep Blue Sea, Jaws sequels), Lovecraftian monstrosities (Deep Star Six, the underrated Underwater), aliens (I'm gonna be generous and call The Abyss horror-adjacent), and most recently for me, submerged haunted houses in The Deep House. I grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan so I've always had a profound respect, proper fear, and sense of awe about large bodies of water and the dark depths within - there's a sense of mystery and magic when you're out there on the water and can see hundreds of feet down via…

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  Review by RepoJack ★★★½

  I must have a soft spot for oceanic horror. One of my first "top 10" lists covered tropical horror (boxd.it/8YK4w). I guess I have Lovecraft to blame.

  Sea Fever starts as a slow-burn with an ensemble cast that plays their roles as "understated" deep sea fishers but picks up the pace once they get stranded at sea.

  The plot is convoluted and meanders a lot in the second half, but the overall concept is solid and significantly more entertaining than one of the other oceanic horror movies of 2020, The Beach House.

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  Review by Austin Burke ★★★½

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  Sea Fever is one of those films that managed to drop at a time where it hits harder than the filmmakers could have ever imagined. This is the ultimate quarantine movie. Not that I recommend watching this in quarantine, but it’s a film that actually deals with something similar to what we are dealing with. The stakes are (obviously) much higher here, as there is a parasite wreaking havoc on this crew. The obvious comparisons are going to be to The Thing and Alien, and those are as perfect as you can get, but this film never quite reaches those heights. It absolutely captures the claustrophobic feeling that it is going…