I watched Nightmare At The Sea few days ago, when it came to TV. I had heard this movie is so bad and boring, so I thought I wanna see is it really so so bad. This movie was released in 2012 and it was directored by Marko Äijö. Nightmare At The Sea is thriller, despite the fact that it is advertised as a horror movie. This movie is “part” of Salatut Elämät – television serie, even if the plot is not directly related to the series.
In movie Peppi (Sara Säkkinen), her new husband Sergei (Tero Tiittanen) and their friends leaving on a cruise. On cruise weird stuff starts to happen and friends begin to disappear. The situation becomes horrible and old friends are beginning to turn against. Environment is St. Peter Line’s cruise liner Princess Maria. The film was shot during the summer and particularly at first everything was sunny and okay. Main characters are exactly Peppi and Sergei, but important characters are for example Heidi (Venla Savikuja), Joonatan (Markku Pulli), Sampo (Sampsa Tuomala) and cruise hostess Tessa (Karoliina Blackburn). Movie ‘s theme song is “Kyynel kuuluu mereen” by Vague Musik featuring Karoliina Kallio.
My first impression after seeing this movie was “what?” This movie wasn’t thiller at all, it was a bad comedy. I don’t know which character I could identify with, because movie was quite unconvincing. Characters or whole movie weren’t so plausible. This movie confirmed my opinion that the Finnish films aren’t often very good. I don’t know what was the purpose of the work. I think somebody thought “I want to make movie”. I would recommend the film to people who are angry or disappointed, because this movie is so bad it is almost good. You can’t help laughing during this “horror or thriller movie”. Language was rather standard language and it was okay to hear. Movie was quite easy to follow. I don’t know what I would have done differently – maybe almost everything.
I agree with your opinions about Finnish films and how this movie was like a bad comedy!