In Sea Fever, Siobhan, a solitary, socially-awkward marine biology student, ships out with an Irish fishing boat as part of her studies, to catalog their catch in order to [insert vague movie science here]. Siobhan has difficulty connecting with people - and the fact that the fishing crew think she is bad luck because she is a redhead doesn't help - but the owners of the boat, Freya (Connie Nielsen) and Gerard (a haggard Dougray Scott), need her university's money. Off-shore and straying into an "exclusion zone," ostensibly to avoid calving whales, the boat gets fetched up on something. When Siobhan dons her scuba gear (most of the crew can't swim because better to drown quickly than slowly - yikes), they learn that an enormous creature, like a huge starfish with squid-like tentacles, has hold of them. It appears to be an entirely new species - and an unfriendly one, as it starts oozing its way on board, chewing through the hull and sending larvae into their water filtration system. It is infectious too and soon enough the formerly close-knit crew is turning against each other, just as poor Siobhan is starting to make friends.
Sea Fever is a sleepy little movie, where not much actually happens. It's not really scary or suspenseful and only has a couple of icky bits (exploding eyeballs for the win yo). The characters are pretty shallow; there aren't really any jump scares. There are plenty of other, better movies that Sea Fever has borrowed from, like Alien and The Thing.
I have one more bonus movie to add here, so hopefully we'll go out on a high[er] note ...
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