Sea Fever (2020) poster
2020 · thriller · horror · drama · sci-fi

Sea Fever

Directed by Neasa Hardiman1h 35m2020
ElsewhereIMDb5.715kRT87%Metacritic60
  • sombre
  • intense
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.

Our read · Sea Fever (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive thriller · horror · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want claustrophobic outbreak horror on a trawler with real quarantine dilemmas.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorgraphic violencesuicide theme

Skip it tonightSea sickness and infection dread aren't your 10pm vibe tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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