Dead in the Water, Sea Monster Chases Babes at Sea

We have a good one! Yep, a ship in the northern pacific manned by a crew of females! Yep, babes at sea. The ancient, and not so ancient mariners knew women aboard a ship was bad luck...and were they ever right. Of course, in defense of the babes, it doesn't help if a slimy, tendril and tentacled sea creature is also on board waiting to enter their bodies and eat them from the inside out. Oh, one of the babes is named Kat (Nicole Fortuin) and she will indeed get into a catfight...or should I say Katfight? Our feature today is 2018's "Dead in the Water," directed by Sheldon Wilson...a man!

Never mind why they are there, or what they are doing...they are an all women crew on a ship...it won't go well. Because they are women, their engine is shot and they don't know how to fix it. Kat and Rusty (Skye Russell) try but there are limits. Gwenn (Bianca Simone Mannie) is the useless captain, but her sister Dana (Nikohl Boosheri) is a bad-a** and this will come in handy when someone breaks out the harpoon gun. Erika (Tanya van Graan) is the very pretty professor who loves fish and hates boats. Michelle (Amy Louise Wilson) is the flunked out med student who will be called on to do a weird autopsy. Oh, Sparks (Christia Visser) will be the first infected. Infected? Yep. Unfortunately for the inept crew of babes, they pick up a stranger (Brandon Auret) in the sea, half dead...or more than half dead. Michelle and Erika try to save him but he goes spastic, grabs a scalpel, and tries to murder all the sailorettess.

The stranger yells "Kill me!  Kill yourselves!" Yep, a deadly parasite monster is inside the guy and when he finally dies, no thanks to the gals, the monster explodes out of him and into...well, you'll see. The thing has tendrils, tentacles, a small head, and is slimy and crawls through vents. Now the gals must fix the engine as a big storm is heading their way and if a rogue wave catches them, the dead in the water boat will capsize. Between fixing the boat and hunting the monster that is hunting them, the gals prove their incompetence. The thing infects the dames one by one and the surviving ones realize they cannot allow it to get to mainland. 

Would this 2018 film have been a box office hit if the dames were dressed in tight, shiny catsuits and stilettos? Would the fortunes of this boat have been better if there were a man aboard who knew how to fix an engine?  Will the monster kill all the dames and if it doesn't will the surviving dames be infected? This is a good one.  In fairness to these dames, the crew at Outpost 31 was all male and they did not fare well.  For some slimy sea creature horror, with catfights, and tentacles, see "Dead in the Water."