Dead Calm (1989)

Release date: 1989-05-25
Country: Australia
Language: English
Director: Phillip Noyce
Production Co: Kennedy Miller Productions, Lynx Location Services
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 6.8/10
Length: 1h 36min

Storyline

An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

Plot Keywords

sailboat, female nudity, psychological torture, sex, hostage, maniac, female frontal nudity, male rear nudity, sailing, kidnapping, stranger, nudity, psychological thriller, psychological, ship, yacht, sea, rowboat, shot through the mouth, shotgun

Short Review

Though not always entirely credible, Dead Calm is a nail-biting suspense pic [from the novel by Charles Williams] handsomely produced and inventively directed.