A parasitic infection plagues a fishing boat in a low-budget
Irish B-movie that provides modest entertainment before a damp ending
There’s going to be an understandable portion of audiences who will instantly reject the mere idea of watching the low-budget sci-fi horror Sea Fever, its gloopy tale of a deadly infection proving to be familiar, if fantastical, territory for this very moment. But beneath the shuddering use of words like “quarantine” lives a solid, slithering little B-movie, one that openly cribs from the blueprints of Alien and The Thing but does so with just about enough skill to warrant a midnight viewing, if not quite enough to justify itself at any other time of the day.
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