Dream Cruise (2007)

A feature-length version of a heavily trimmed episode from Mick Garris' Masters of Horror series (Season Two). Directed by Norio Tsuruta, it's based on a short story by Kôji Suzuki, who's best known in filmic circles as the author of the works that Hideo Nakata's Dark Water (2002) and Ring (1998) films were based on. Dream Cruise, as you've probably guessed, also involves water.
A lowly lawyer (Daniel Gillies) with a long-standing guilt complex and a fear of the wet stuff agrees to take a boat trip with a "valuable" client in order to keep him happy. The boat breaks down and the atmosphere, which wasn't there to begin with, never gets to a level where it can be felt. The weak framing, stupid plotting, overplayed sound effects, shit acting, lack of music, and reliance on Japanese horror clichés make it an utter washout.

1½ cabin crawls out of 5