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A couple
of friends are going on a boat trip for the
weekend. They've rented a sailboat and a captain to
drive it and they're all set to go, but they have no
idea how wrong this trip is going to go. One by one
the friends start to disappear, and with nothing but
water around them, the remaining friends soon start
to become paranoid. Is there a killer on board? And
if so, who is he?
A title like Sea Of Fear doesn't really tell you a lot
about the movie does it? Slap a sailboat on the cover
and a dead person floating in front of it and you're
even more clueless as to what it is about. Well Sea Of
Fear is not a haunted boat movie, nor is it a killer
shark movie (as the opening scene will have you believe),
it's a slasher - and a really bad one at that.
Sea Of Fear revolves around a couple of friends who are
out on a boat trip when they mysteriously start to
disappear, one after the other. It doesn't take long
before we realize that there's a killer on board who's
basing his murders on his victims worst fears (gee,
that's original). I've always said that slashers should
at least be rated R, a gore-less slasher just doesn't
work and after having seen Sea Of Fear, my opinion
remains the same. Sure, this movie would have been just
as bad with buckets of blood in it, but at least there
would have been buckets of blood right?
Shot on a 2 million dollar budget, Sea Of Fear looks
great visually. It's shot in cinemascope and at first
I asked myself why this never had a theatrical run.
I soon realized that it was probably because of the
movie itself. It doesn't matter how much money you
spend if you have no idea what you're doing, and
director and writer Andrew Schuth is clearly clueless,
as is the special effects team. For 30% of the movie
there's a rain storm going on, and while the CGI-made
water looks, well bad, the rain looks worse. You can
actually see how someone is just showering water in
front of the camera since there's only rain in the
middle of the screen and none on the sides.
Still, the movie is watchable for a while but after a
mediocre 50 minutes it simply becomes embarrassing.
In most slasher flicks the killer explains his motives
for about a minute or so, well here he explains them
for an impressive fifteen minutes - and when he's
finally done we learn that it was all unnecessary
information anyway. And as if that wasn't enough, the
endings are completely moronic, yes all three of them.
I swear, if I never hear the words "you're smarter than
that" again, I'll die a happy man.
This is the kind of movie that you just have to laugh
at since it is so embarrassingly incompetent in every
way. The first half of the movie is watchable which
is why I didn't give it a 0/5, but I hope that whoever
was involved in the making of this movie stay as far
away as possible from the horror genre - that's how
bad the rest of the movie was.
No.
The acoustic guitar music was pretty good as well as
the reggae pop which was played in the beginning. The
suspense score was decent but couldn't save the movie.
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to drown?
Well here's your chance to experience it without
actually dying. Sea Of Fear is excruciatingly bad
and I'm embarrassed for whoever was involved in the
making of this movie. How you can screw up a horror
flick this bad when you have a 2 million dollar budget
is just beyond me. Avoid this slasher at all cost.
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