# Is this an actual film I'm remembering? Couple on an island are haunted by a dead seal

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**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-actual-film-im-remembering-couple-on-an-island-are-haunted-by-a-dead-seal/928140 "2020-12-15T23:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-actual-film-im-remembering-couple-on-an-island-are-haunted-by-a-dead-seal/928140/1 "2020-12-15T23:08:11Z")

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That’s what I remember.

Or at least there’s a couple that spend time near a beach somewhere. But there’s definitely a dead seal there, in one shot the woman turns around, sees the seal’s corpse in front of her and screams. I could be confused and she was just surprised to see a dead animal, but I’ve it in my head that the seal popped up all over the place.

It can’t be that recent a movie, no later than the 80s, maybe early 90s tops. And the couple are white, possibly Australian. Possibly.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-actual-film-im-remembering-couple-on-an-island-are-haunted-by-a-dead-seal/928140/2 "2020-12-15T23:13:43Z")

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> **[The Dreaming (1988) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)**
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> The Dreaming: Directed by Mario Andreacchio. With Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet, Laurence Clifford. A doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds herself having disturbing...

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-actual-film-im-remembering-couple-on-an-island-are-haunted-by-a-dead-seal/928140/3 "2020-12-16T02:42:26Z")

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Sounds like an episode of _Frasier._

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**Author:** ![Banksia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Banksia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksia)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-actual-film-im-remembering-couple-on-an-island-are-haunted-by-a-dead-seal/928140/4 "2020-12-16T05:12:49Z")

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Sounds like _Long Weekend_ (1978), and the animal is probably its dugong.

Great film!

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-an-actual-film-im-remembering-couple-on-an-island-are-haunted-by-a-dead-seal/928140/5 "2020-12-16T14:50:34Z")

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Looks like it’s Long Weekend, thanks!