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i must have seen a different film!!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Sure, Jaws was frightening. But now, "just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...you can't get to it!" A woman walks her dog along the beach before she is pulled under the sand by an unseen creature. Her screams alert Harry Caluder, a harbor patrol office who is swimming in the ocean. He reports her disappearance to LAPD detectives Royko (Burt Young, Amityville II: The Possession) and Pianadosi, who can do nothing without a body.The woman's estranged daughter, Catherine (Marianna Hill, Messiah of Evil) calls Henry about her mother. Even after she finds a dog with a severed head, no one can figure out what has happened. The cops believe that a serial killer is at large, but much like the aforementioned Jaws, the powers that be want them to keep a lid on it after the media starts using the term "Blood Beach."Aftar another attack on a teenage girl, Captain Pearson (John Saxon, making every movie better just by his presense) begins digging up the beach to discover the killer.Meanwhile, Hoagy (no, not Michael Caine, but a co-worker of Henry) is closing the harbor patrol when a man attacks his girlfriend. She knocks the rapist to the ground and the creature castrates the man. And then the beach devours Marie, the French stewardess who lives with Henry, leaving only her hat and an eyeball.Oh yeah -- Harry and Catherine used to be lovers and now try to reconcile.Finally, someone survives an attack, a man who was using a metal detector on the beach. However, he's in shock and unable to explain what happened. And when Hoagy tries to warn Mrs. Selden, who has watched the murders throughout the film, he's pulled under while she simply looks on.Catherine decides to investigate the access tunnel to the beach where they found the survivor. She discovers the remains of every victim as Captain Pearson installs motion detectors, cameras and explosives all over the beach. Soon, a giant worm emerges and the cops blow it up real good.That said -- Dr. Dimitrios believes that because its a worm, it can regenerate. With small sinkholes showing up all over the beach, he just might be right.Blood Beach does what we expect from Jaws but inverts the danger. There's some fine character work by Burt Ward, Marianna Hill is as lovely as ever and there are plenty of monster attacks to keep everyone in suspense. It's not the finest in horror, but it'll do once a few beers have started to work themselves into your brain.

I have a bit of a soft spot for this daft little B-movie because I saw it as a kid and the idea of the story really grabbed me and captured my young imagination. And now, while frankly as a movie it doesn't hold uptoo much for me at all, it is an amusing romp and I enjoy it in a harmless campy way and it makes for a very colourful and distinctive addition to the awesome creature feature movies of the time. It's very cute and has its good points, like the music score which helps to set a good sense of lurking menace and tension, and the concept of the hidden 'slayer in the sands' is very intriguing and keeps you hanging on, wondering what the creature really is, the idea of something monstrous hiding under a bright sunny beach that can swallow people alive unexpectedly is creepy...but that is all about this flick has going for it, as it is an extremely low-quality picture all around. You don't get to see the monster until the final half-minute or so, and what you do see is a big 'ol letdown and an incredibly weak climax after an admirable buildup. This movie has an awesome horror concept that's let down by a clearly low budget, poor acting, a washed-out picture, weird camera angles, the sound is really sh*tty, the story is full of holes both plot and monster-related, but the main thing that's wrong with it is that it is boring as hell! It plays out like a bad TV movie and there's no real flow to it at all, it's just one scene after another of dull police investigating, the idiotic main guy and his ex-wife reconciling their love while saxophones play, he was seriously one of the weakest male leads I've ever seen, and of course the poor saps getting sucked into the sand! They approach this silly story about a huge monster flytrap sea cucumber that's eating up sunbathers so seriously, and it could've been a lot more fun and entertaining than it is. There's some sh*t that goes on in it that would have played a lot better if the actors had tried to act it a little more schlocky, but all of the actors are so dry and dead serious that it mostly just doesn't work very well and isn't very interesting to watch.. There's this one scene where a lady describes in great detail to Burt Young what her husband was wearing at the time of his disappearance that's almost unbelievable! That scene is some hilariously sloppy writing. It does seem like the director was going for something like a Larry Cohen type of a vibe but didn't quite have the talent or money to pull it off. Cohen would have been able to gear this beach turkey into a classic. A lot of the more endearing cheaply-done horror flicks have the benefit of likeable and interesting characters to balance out the monster stuff, this film does not. They really should have done it as more of a comedy with John Saxon and Burt Young as the leads instead of just having them as minor characters. One character I do enjoy is the old quack who correctly predicts the disaster that will follow should the creature be blown to bits, as you see in the effectively eerie closing sequence where one sea flytrap has indeed become too many to handle all thanks to Burt Young being an impulsive dumbass! The monster that you do briefly see doesn't quite add up with the events of the movie and it made me wonder if at different points in the production they has planned to have it turn out to be something completely different, because there's no way that the ridiculous overgrown flower thing with no appendages or obvious intelligence whatsoever would be capable of tieing up human bodies and heads with rope or do anything as meticulous as rip out a guy's tongue, a girl's eyes, or indeed bite off a would-be-rapist's dick! It's horrible to begin with but it really falls apart with that half-assed monster reveal, the ending is the real low blow! It's not a film that I hate at all, I'm not angry whilst watching it, I'm just...disappointed because it's a waste of a good concept that could have been done much better. It's craaaap!! But I think my enjoyment of it might be on a so-bad-it's-good level! Beautifully terrible. X

For me, Blood Beach is one of those early 80's horror's that I can watch repeatedly and not get bored and It's one of the rare unintentional horror comedies as this is so poorly filmed and acted with almost no plausible special effects, that the seriousness in which this is shot comes off as hilarious.Basically someone or something is making beach goers disappear. Initially the police either assume that they've either drowned or are the victims of a serial killer, however when a search of the beach turns up nothing, police are puzzled. More and more people go missing, but the attention of the police is renewed when a young girl is buried in the sand by her friends and is attacked in full view of everyone. She is pulled from the sand with bloodied legs. That coupled with a potential rapist getting castrated right in front of his would-be victim, has police realising that they are after something other than human.A further search uncovers the beasts lair along with various dead bodies and body parts and they decide to set an explosive trap for it to blow it up. The monster is captured on camera and once it is in the right spot the charges are set off and the beast is killed. However as people start to return to the beach, sinkholes start appearing in different parts of the beach indicating that the beast either spawned or that blowing up a large carnivorous plant is not the best idea, but that's where the movie ends.As said earlier the movie is very silly but it's a lot of fun. It's supposed to be a serious outing but it's almost as if the film-makers were deliberately poking fun at themselves. The monster itself looks like some kind of rubbery mutated man-eating cactus. The only actors I recognise in this is Burt Young from Rocky and John Saxon who seems to love being overly serious and angry in every B-grade movie there ever was.Blood Beach is an 80's gem that is actually begging to be re-made by someone who will give it a proper budget and updated special effects as the original film is very grainy, it at least deserves to be touched up and re-released. Not many people know of this movie and those who do don't give it much consideration which is kinda sad as it's a great horror story. If you manage to track down a copy of this then grab hold of it.

'Blood Beach' is a fairly typical example of a B-grade horror film. The acting is just competent enough to keep the plot going, but no-one would scratch their heads wondering why these artistes aren't better known. There's the stoic male lead doing his best to look moody despite the early 80s low lighting. There's the predictable love interest, the sceptic, the comic relief, and the wise all-knowing scientist who no-one listens to. All the boxes have been checked here. The plot is straightforward and threadbare, and the budget would be equal to what Spielberg spends on a typical lunch.However, I really enjoyed this thing as a kid, and watching it again recently reminded me why. For one thing, the film-makers know their financial limits, and the menace threatening the sleepy Southern Californian beach is wisely kept out of sight until the very end, and even then, you don't get a truly good look at it. This is a wise approach even when you do have money to play with, as it builds suspense, and avoids disappointment. Additionally, 'Blood Beach' is mostly filmed on-location, so there are few desperately cheap-looking sets. Finally, the film ends the way all good horror films do, though I just wish it hadn't been made so obvious earlier on.I think the main reason 'Blood Beach' gets a low score is probably that it gets a little slow in places. This isn't helped by the two-dimensional characterisation, that if developed in a better script, could probably have alleviated the problem.Nonetheless, it has its redeeming features as mentioned, and it's a good bit of late-night disposable viewing if you like horror and there's nothing better on.