Cert 12A 103mins Stars 4

This year’s second biopic of doomed British amateur yachtsman, Donald Crowhurst, is a far more compelling kettle of fish than Colin Firth’s washed out turn in The Mercy.

Following in the wake of its big budget competitor and stripped of its Hollywood gloss, this is closer to a horror film and is a dark vision of isolation, weakness and madness.

In 1968 the weekend sailor and amateur inventor took up the challenge to become the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping.

As Crowhurst, Justin Salinger gives us a less sentimental and more sympathetic interpretation of the man who sails into a hell of his own creation when he resorts to cheating.

Punctuating the many eerie silences with popular song and hymns, a rendition of Jerusalem is demoniacally satirical.

Wholly nightmarish and with a touch of the supernatural, this is impressively real as it doesn’t rely on CGI waves to impress us. This really floated my boat.