To me, this movie is perfection.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The college athlete Lance (Burgess Jenkins) and his friend Tom (Kieren Hutchison) meet Tom's girlfriend Kate (Katherine Bailess) and her friend Ashley (Caroline Walker) in a marina to travel in a rented boat in a leisure trip. The Captain (Edward Albert) brings his navigator and first mate Joel (Adam Mayfield) and another unexpected passenger, Derek (Christopher Showerman), in the trip. Sooner the boat is stranded and one by one is murdered on board. Who is the killer?The awful "Sea of Fear" is a boring film and I regret that I had spent my time watching this despite the warnings in IMDb. Why didn't I believe in IMDb rating and reviews? My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Mar do Medo" ("Sea of the Fear")

**SPOILERS** The film "Sea of Fear" is so handicapped by its cockamamie and overly complicated plot that it even fail as being an entertainingly bad film despite the many unintentional laughs in it.There's this psycho killer on the loose on this chartered boat out at sea who's murdering the passengers and crew with impunity. The killer is so stealth and acrobatic that he's able to disappear, on a moments notice, into thin air without anybody knowing or getting the slightest glimpse of him until he just about murdered everyone on board! You know that the unseen killer has to be one of the seven people on board since he knows just what his victims fear most in the way they die! This information on his part was in them telling him their darkest secrets during an evening barn-fire and BS session on the deserted beaches of Snorkel Island earlier in the film.It's when the ship's navigator Joel, Adam Mayfield, suddenly disappeared, possibly in the stomach of a Great White Shark, with the navigation equipment that things started to go down the drink with the passengers and the boat captain, Edward Albert, being terrorized and murdered by the shadowy killer.The acting in the movie, with the exception of Edward Albert, is so lame and unemotional that those the psycho killer does in evoke absolutely no sympathy at all in just how easily they end up being killed off! It's as if that's exactly, in order to get out of the film, what they really wanted in the first place!Besides the missing and left for dead Joel theirs Lance, Burgess Jenkins, who ends up being shark bait together with Derek, Christopher Showenman, who end up being deep sixth with the boat's anchor tied to his legs.As everyone on board ends up dead we end up with only Ashley, Caroline Walker, and the Captain left alive and it becomes apparent to the movies audience that one of the two has to be the killer but which one!***SPOILER ALERT*** It's then that things start to go haywire with the movie getting into high gear in trying to be some kind of super IQ, that only members of Mensa can figure out, whodunit with its slew of ridicules and unending twist endings. By the time you finally get it straight to who the killer is your brain had been so twisted out of shape that you don't even care any more.If the film just stuck to the basics of you garden variety slasher film it may well have been worth watching. Instead it tried to be so cute and overbearing in it trying to fool or impress its audience that it fell apart long before it revealed who its killer really was. About the only thing interesting in the film, besides it sunning at sea photography, was the reason the killer did in his victims. That I have to say was about the only thing that shocked me in that it was far more of a surprise in what the killer's motives were then who the killer was himself!

Sea of Fear has some things going for it. The camera work wasn't too bad and the lighting was better than expected. The acting was pretty raw, perhaps in a few more years the young cast will ripen. A pay check for Edward Albert as he had a relatively small role. The story is about a group of young people that pay an old captain that take a boat trip to party and have some fun. They tell some spooky stories, drink a few beers, down some rum, and then start dying off. Sort of a twisted ending, but not unlike some other films of the recent past. It's worth a watch, but keep the remote handy so you can FF past some of the languishing melodramatic dialog.

Sea of Fear was exhilarating from start to finish. I usually figure out the "who done it" well before the end of a scary movie, but this one had me stymied. I was taken by complete surprise when the villains were revealed at the end. In my opinion, that is the best sign of a fear-flick done well. The acting was top-notch. Both women in the movie were excellent at portraying their characters. Kate was totally captivating. I was enthralled by her low and sexy voice. She made all her scenes thoroughly realistic. This is not a movie for people who aren't prepared to "jump" with fright. Take my word for it, and rent this movie. I will recommend it to all my co-workers in the morning.It is well worth the watch. Enjoy!!!