Starring Hermione Corfield, Dag Malmberg, Jack Hickey, Olwen Fouéré, Dougray Scott and Connie Nielsen. Written and directed by Neasa Hardiman. Bright Moving Pictures/Creativity Capital/Epic Pictures Group.

Siobhan (Corfield), a science student, gets a place on a fishing trawler that is overseen by Freya (Nielsen) and her husband, Gerard (Scott). As the trawler sets off, the Irish Coast Guard alerts the crew, informing them that their planned fishing destination is in an exclusion zone. However, despite Freya’s orders not to go there, Gerard takes the trawler into the zone anyway, because he needs a big haul of fish to keep ownership of the ship. But there’s something lurking within the exclusion zone that ain’t no fish…

This seaborne sci-fi-horror movie features a vast, strange creature that infects the crew. This infection actually turns out to be part of the critter’s lifecycle… and it can cause the eyeballs of victims to explode!

This is a pretty decent production, but the movie gets bogged down with the main protagonist, who is played well by Hermione Corfield, trying to identify and isolate the infection. The plot should really have delved more into the beast’s whole lifecycle, showing us what the various stages of this glowing, jellyfish-like critter look like. But, that aside, SEA FEVER is definitely a solid, well-acted, well-made, modestly-sized dark sci-fi flick.

Hey, SEA FEVER features parasites swimming in people’s eyes and includes shots of bioluminescent tentacles, so of course it’s worth a watch!