Blood Vessel

Blood Vessel (2020) is a wartime horror you can watch online on iFILM. It's 1945, somewhere in the North Atlantic. A handful of survivors from a torpedoed hospital ship drift on a lifeboat with no food, no water and no land in sight — until a silent German minesweeper glides out of the fog like a gift.

Nobody alive is aboard. The ragtag group — British, Australian, American and Russian sailors thrown together — climbs the deck and finds the German crew torn apart. Below, a young Romanian girl turns out to be the only one left breathing. She leads them toward a sealed room, and what's behind that door explains exactly how everyone up top died.

Director Justin Dix, a longtime effects artist, leans hard on practical gore and the cramped iron corridors of the ship, letting the claustrophobia carry as much weight as the creature. The result blends war drama with old-country vampire lore on a tight, bloody scale. One for fans of throwback creature features like Deep Rising. Stream Blood Vessel (2020) online on iFILM.