qmtv
This movie is a Horror Show. Crap all the way. Crappy story, acting, cinematography, music, etc Nothing is explained. No idea where this creature came from. The monster finally shows up near the end and it looks like crap. The main male and female characters and actors are a joke. We just basically watch them go on dates. The woman's mother is missing or dead and she just seems all happy/content. The man's neighbor and girlfriend is missing or dead and the same thing. Unreal.The best part of the movie is when a few people get sucked into the sand. John Saxons character and acting was good. And the Rocky actor was there for comedy, waiting for the next Rocky movie.The dialogue was the worst. Especially with the main male and female characters.My rating is a D for effort, or 3 stars. 1 star given for balance. It took me 3 sittings to complete this mess. There was a decent idea, but the Screenplay was poor. They had a budget to do something, and this was the result. Crap.
Chase_Witherspoon
Routinely panned though it might be, "Blood Beach" isn't a bad little thriller at all. Something of a hybrid of "Day of the Triffids" meets "Jaws", Huffman plays the lifeguard of a popular beach-front community where strange disappearances have the locals worried. The mother (Medin) of his estranged wife (Hill, in one of her last movies to date) embarks on a regular morning walk along the beach, never to return. Pretty soon, his girlfriend (Pousette) and other random victims have disappeared. With each disappearance, the plot thickens and without a suspect or motive, nonchalant detectives (Burt Young and Otis Young, no relation) continue to run into investigative cul-de-sacs. Does the strange bag lady residing at the disused amusement park know the identity and whereabouts of the killer? Huffman seems to be the only one capable of locating the clues to this baffling mystery.Tense, humorous and well paced little suspense thriller includes a strong cast of veterans and some sharp, witty dialogue. Burt Young's character is a great detective parody and Saxon, who appears toward the latter part of the film, plays a character not unlike that in "Black Christmas". High body count and a genuinely unsettling mood builds hysteria and the suspense is palpable when the police cordon off a section of beach-front with assistance from biological scientist (Gierasch) who believes he's detected a foreign presence. The climax that ensues is a cracker and the post script that runs into the end credits is both fitting, yet unexpected.Short, sharp with a great cast and some genuine thrills, and, chronically underrated.
trashgang
It's very strange that some actors who have just done a major are doing a low budget that failed at the time being but became a cult favorite afterwards. This so called monsterflick is one of them. Burt Young just did Rocky, and continued doing that and after Blood Beach doing another classic Once Upon A Time In America. John Saxon, the same, Black Christmas and Nightmare On Elm Street, in between this flick. You are only 5 minutes into the movie and the boom appears. Not only once but a few times throughout the movie, not only that, the protection against lens flair due the sun onto the camera appears a lot too throughout the movie. The quality of the film used is poor too, a lot of drop outs are visual. It never had a good release, never went on DVD, and the transfer to VHS was poor too. So to find it you will only catch it on VHS from the US, all bad quality. But still, the movie is watchable, sometimes it's a bit slow and some scene's are too long but it has a bit of suspense. It never becomes gory or bloody, in some killings you see the result of the creature. The storyline itself is sometimes a bit to much about the love between the main actors. But if you like exploitation and grind house flicks than this one is for you, compare it with another one from that time Slithis. Only for Europeans it will be a little harder to get a grip on a copy but hey, the web will help you.
shamasnazir78
this move is excellent as it build tension slowly and the at the end we witness a truly horrific creature. while watching this movie i enjoyed the fact that the creatures appearance is left to the imagination . when i did finally see the creature and its the best scene in the film as it roars and shrieks its disgust and anger at the humans who have found its resting place under the dark piers .the opening music score is very menacing as u hear the creatures shrieks in the back .As i watched it screaming at the humans watching it i felt very sad for the victims being chewed by this horrible creature , its screams sound like a thousand trucks screeching . this film reminds me of another film called q the winged serpent . again the police either don,t care or don,t pay attention to the huge creature flying around killing people .its a shame this classic film has not been released on d.v.d in the u.k , i for one would buy it
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