Dead Calm

Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian horror, thriller film. In the story, Rae Ingram is traumatized after a car crash results in the death of her young son. Her older husband, Australian Navy Captain John Ingram, suggests a vacation on their yacht, the Saracen. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they encounter a drifting schooner that appears to be taking on water. A distressed man rows a dinghy over to the Saracen. He introduces himself as Hughie Warriner and tells them the schooner is sinking, the other passengers having died of food poisoning ten days prior.

Categories: Horror, Drama Movies

Director: Phillip Noyce

Starring: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane

Country: Australia