A group of
friends out in the sea for a day of sailing come across a mysterious boat.
The main
selling point of this movie is the extremely ingenious plot; it’s brilliant,
all clockwork precision and sliding mirrors.
I really
can’t say anything about it; the whole fun lies in seeing what’s going on. Try
not to spoil yourself about this one; this is the kind of experience that could
be ruined if somebody told you about the ending beforehand.
For the
rest the movie is competent, there is nice pacing and an intriguing atmosphere
permeates it. I appreciated the nice transitions between quiet suburban life,
day out sailing and the big boat of horror with his shocking revelations.
The
characters are all stock horror movie fodder, even the protagonist is not
really that developed. Actually in the end this is a fine example of B movie so
we got the grandiose plot, historically B movies pioneered stuff that the
mainstream didn’t dare to touch with a very long fork, but we also got the
pedestrian everything else. At least here there is no illogical absurdities
like “Why don’t we go into the haunted house at the top of the hill and then we
split up!”, every decision is at least reasonable and the mental state of the
protagonist is, in the end, understandable.
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