DVD & BluRay

SEA FEVER Signature, cert 15 Blu-ray £10

A marine biology student finds herself in scarily murky waters when she joins a creaky old trawler fishing the Irish seas as part of her course.

Now we all know from movies like Dead Calm, The Poseidon Adventure and not to mention Titanic (oops, I just did), that there’s no disaster quite like an oceangoing one.

And this voyage doesn’t start well when student Siobhan (Hermione Corfield) gets on board and the crew get an eyeful of her flaming red hair - the equivalent of somebody with an albatross round their neck. It’s a dark omen. Bad Tidings in fact.

Sure enough, Siobhan discovers she was only taken on board the wheezy old hulk because owners Freya (Connie

Nielsen - pictured) and Gerard (Dougray Scott) are strapped for cash and were glad of the pay-out from the laboratory to take the trainee on a fishing trip.

Then comes the crunch, the boat hits an unseen underwater obstacle and divers go down to take a look. They find luminous jellyfishlike creatures attached to the hull and leaking a gooey

THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES

Second Sight, cert PG Blu-ray disc/booklet set £24.99

Ray Milland (pictured) was a Hollywood golden years star and leading man, but this Roger Corman directed 1963 film was a late-career sci-fi horror. It started life modestly, but Milland’s eye-popping turn and an outrageous plot you’ll see right through eventually earned it cult status. Now it’s enhanced in Blu-ray with interviews, a tribute from Gremlins director Joe Dante, and an infopacked booklet.

Mad scientists have starred in horror ever since Frankenstein, and Milland is swivel-eyed Doctor Xavier who’s creating a serum that’ll allow doctors to see into the body of patients. When he experiments on his own eyes of course, it goes horribly wrong and he becomes a substance…but worse, these are just the offspring of a great big mother creature. Things get worse when they board another boat and find the crew dead, and they become aware their own water supply has become contaminated.

Then people start dying and the bodies pile up in the freezer compartment designed for a fish catch. Now fear and claustrophobia are rocking the boat and it’s every crewman and student for themselves in a film that’s a bit like Alien with salt water.

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carnival show freak.

In which film was Milland a Hitchcock villain? Entries to Alex Gordon, X-Ray competition. All competition prizes will be despatched asap after lockdown.

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