A group of mature young people charter a yacht and pick up a mysterious stranger. He turns out to be hosting some ancient spirit who has been seeking to avoid paying the Ferryman to the Underworld for millenia, by means of shifting his spirit into the bodies of unwitting mariners by way of a sacrificial dagger. Cue bloody mayhem.
A neat (but somewhat underdeveloped) idea, executed with a slow start but otherwise satisfactorily. It features a largely antipodean cast (including the pleasingly pneumatic Amber Sainsbury, more recently seen in 30 Days Of Night) with the mysterious stranger played by John Rhys-Davies, returning to mortgage-paying schlock after the glories of Lord Of The Rings. Clearly, he likes New Zealand! It's a shame the basic idea wasn't developed more fully, because the latter half - a "last man standing" bloodbath - has been seen many times, most recently in Donkey Punch, although Dead Calm is probably higher profile.
A neat (but somewhat underdeveloped) idea, executed with a slow start but otherwise satisfactorily. It features a largely antipodean cast (including the pleasingly pneumatic Amber Sainsbury, more recently seen in 30 Days Of Night) with the mysterious stranger played by John Rhys-Davies, returning to mortgage-paying schlock after the glories of Lord Of The Rings. Clearly, he likes New Zealand! It's a shame the basic idea wasn't developed more fully, because the latter half - a "last man standing" bloodbath - has been seen many times, most recently in Donkey Punch, although Dead Calm is probably higher profile.