Dead Calm (1989)

 ●  English ● 1 hr 36 mins

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After a gruesome tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae decide to spend some time isolated at sea, where they come across a stranger with a sordid past.

Cast: Billy Zane, Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill

Crew: Phillip Noyce (Director), Dean Semler (Director of Photography), Graeme Revell (Music Director)

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Release Dates: 13 Nov 2018 (India), 07 Apr 1989 (United States)

Tagline: In the middle of nowhere there is nowhere to hide.

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as Hughie Warriner
as Rae Ingram
as John Ingram
Supporting Actor
as Danny
as Russell Bellows

Direction

Director

Writers

Screenplay Writer
Novelist

Camera and Electrical

Director of Photography

Music

Music Director

Art

Art Director

Editorial

Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Camera:
Panavision Panaflex
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.39:1 (Scope)
Stereoscopy:
No
Taglines:
In the middle of nowhere there is nowhere to hide.
Try To Stay Calm.
High Seas. Deep Terror.
A Voyage Into Fear.
Goofs:
Continuity
At the end of the film, the suds from the shampoo in Rae's hair disappear.

Continuity
During the first part of the sex scene Hughie rips off Rae's shorts and underwear. When she slips on a robe to go run up on deck and get the shotgun, she is wearing a white thong underneath her robe.

Continuity
When the row boat is being rowed to meet the white boat the sea is rough, but when the white boat is sailing to meet it the sea is completely flat.

Continuity
Rae shoots Hughie with a spear gun and the spear hits the top of his shoulder. The next shot shows the spear much further down his shoulder.
Trivia:
Before filming began, Nicole Kidman took lessons from the owner of the Storm Vogel on how to operate the ship. During the storm sequences near the end of the film, she is actually piloting the yacht.

For the scene where Hughie rips off Rae's shorts, Billy Zane really did rip off Nicole Kidman's shorts through his own sheer strength without any alterations made to the shorts to make them easier to rip.

Nicole Kidman turned 20 during production. The cast and crew held a massive party at a nearby isolated island.

Sam Neill met his wife, Noriko Watanabe, in the making of this film.

Filming took almost six months.