soulexpress On a remote Mediterranean island, a drunken, Shakespeare-quoting treasure hunter named Frye (James Earl Jones) sets off an underwater explosion that awakens a long-dormant sea monster, to whom the natives must now sacrifice virgins or else become monster-lunch themselves. A premise like that could have made for a fun movie, but instead it made for this one.Two young newlyweds, Neil (Martin Kove) and Sherri (Mary Louise Weller), spend their honeymoon on the island, where the groom's sister, Madeline (Deborah Shelton), has gone missing. Because who doesn't want to spend their honeymoon searching for a lost relative? Madeline turns up about ten minutes in, leaving a good 73 minutes of dull, uneventful scenes in which very little happens beyond gobs of stilted dialogue.Top billing here goes to James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer (as the village elder), seasoned professionals who knew they were slumming. Ferrer seems half-asleep while Jones spits out his lines in a way that suggests anger-management issues. And yet, they're the only ones with a shred of professionalism. The others have no acting skills and must have been cast for their pretty faces and supple bodies. This includes Lydia Cornell, future co-star of the sitcom "Too Close for Comfort." (She plays a convincing corpse, though.) And Martin Kove is a dead ringer for "Baywatch"-era David Hasselhoff.Item: When Neil and Sherri arrive on the island, some kids throw a cat at them from atop a flight of stairs. It's their idea of a prank.Item: In an underwater cave, Frye quotes Shakespeare with a snorkel in his mouth. The end result ain't exactly Kenneth Branagh.Item: When Lydia Cornell's character goes skinny-dipping and sees some old men watching her, she gets mad and shouts, "I thought you Greeks only liked little boys!"Item: The sea monster gets about five seconds of screen time; it resembles an underwater sockpuppet.Item: Given the choppiness of the action scenes, I have to wonder if there's a longer cut of this film in which the monster appears more.Item: The sound effects are ridiculously loud, to a point of drowning out the dialogue. In a beach scene, the gently lapping waves of the Mediterranean sound like rhinos humping in a marsh. Perhaps the Foley artist was hard of hearing?Item: Near the end of the film, Madline gives Neil a passionate, lingering lip-kiss. They're supposed to be brother and sister.Item: The film score is by some guy noodling around on a Moog.

Rainey Dawn Aren't all these woman to old to be virgins? Unless they were nuns and they didn't dress like them. OH wait! There are a coven of nuns close and the sea monster or beast didn't seem to want them, only the "virgins" in bikinis to be sacrificed. LOL. OK I'll go along with that to finish watching it.Sorta reminds me of Jaws mixed with the occult, they summon Jaws for the sacrifice. This time they are on a Greek Island instead of Amity Island. They even mention there is no sharks in these waters, but the villagers know what is in the waters.This is not an awful movie, it's just not all that good. It seems to be missing something. It just needs a punch that is simply not there to get more viewers and a higher rating.4/10

talisencrw For a low-budget, occult thriller, 80's-era B-movie, I really enjoyed it, though I love occult thrillers as guilty pleasures. The direction is unexceptional but decent, the cinematography (easy, because of the gorgeous locales and mostly outdoor shooting) was surprisingly very good and the soundtrack was passable. I loved the casting, with Martin Kove (from The Karate Kid trilogy), James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer (who always makes a great nasty, what with his cosmopolitan look, like Anthony Quinn, and his condescending, 'I'm better than you, and why do you think you can even exist on the same planet as me?' sneer and attitude), and, of course, the gorgeous women. Though the special effects were low-budget and quaint, they worked on this scale, and how they were executed. There's gratuitous nudity and sex at every conceivable opportunity (and a lot of inconceivable ones!) and even incestuous overtones, so it's terrifically entertaining, if not a cinephilic masterwork.In short, it's worth a look, especially if you enjoy B-movies and occult thrillers, particularly from the 80's. It's both free online, or I found my copy in my legendary Mill Creek 50-pack, 'Nightmare Worlds'.

Endersmojo Let's just go ahead and skip the cinematography, character development, even the plot, and get right to the point: There is a Dragon. It is well endowed. It rapes a bunch of nuns. We don't get to see that. What the heck. 2 out of 10.Addendum: The only correct way to eat a melon is to punch it. Thank you James.Seriously though, pretty shocking to think that virgin sacrifices are virgin for a reason. This cherry-popping' dragon has a lot of character development that we miss. I mean, what's his motivation?More importantly, is the last surviving nun pregnant with his rape- dragon-baby?Looking forward to the sequel!