The idea of getting lost in the sea is scary on its own but when you are trapped in a boat and weird things are happening around you it gets scarier.

The boat is one such movie, the plot opens with a lone fisherman on his daily run who finds himself lost in a thick fog which proves impossible to navigate and encounters a sailboat/yacht and as he looks inside the boat it seems deserted and has no other option to stay on that boat since his boat drifts away in this thick fog, and as he tries to get the boat running the door of the cabin gets jammed and this leads to a nightmarish battle for survival.

The…

The Boat is a very simple concept - basically a guy gets stranded on a small sailboat in the middle of the ocean. It's a one man show and mostly set in a single location. Joe Azzopardi stars under the direction of his father Winston Azzopardi. He makes for a likable lead, although the film is mostly dialogue free. The Boat gets quite intense at times, though it can be quite tedious at others. The single location is well utilised - the small sailboat is very claustrophobic and the fact that it's adrift in the middle of the ocean adds an extra layer of intensity to the proceedings. There are a few quite frankly bizarre decisions from the lead character…

A local fisherman (Joe Azzopardi) encounters a thick fog one morning in the coastal waters off his native Malta.

He bumps into a small yacht with a faulty engine that to all intents and purposes seems abandoned though it would appear only recently as the boat is fully stocked.

Despite having properly pitched it to the side of the yacht the nameless man emerges from the interior to find his fishing boat gone.

The mist then lifts and the yacht drifts out to see and so begins a game of cat and mouse between the fisherman and the yacht itself.

Convinced there is somebody else on board taunting him and making his life a misery the assailant always seems to…