Blood Tide (1982)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Richard Jefferies

Writers:

Richard Jefferies (screenplay) &
Nico Mastorakis (screenplay)

Release Date:

September 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Evil lurks in the Ocean Depths

Plot:

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins. |

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Greece | Fall From Height | Dock | Spear Gun

Cast

James Earl Jones	...	Frye
José Ferrer	...	Nereus
Lila Kedrova	...	Sister Anna
Mary Louise Weller	...	Sherry Grice (as Mary-Louise Weller)
Martin Kove	...	Neil Grice
Lydia Cornell	...	Barbara
Deborah Shelton	...	Madeline Grice
Sofia Seirli	...	Sister Elena
Despina Tomazani	...	Lethe's Mother
Rania Photiou	...	Lethe
Spyros Papafrantzis	...	Dionysis (as Spyros Papafrantziz)
Irini Tripkou	...	Virgin
Annabel Schofield	...	Vikki

Also Known As:

Bloodtide (USA)
Demon Island (USA) (TV title)
The Red Tide

Runtime:

Germany:80 min | UK:97 min | USA:82 min

Country:

UK | Greece

Language:

English

Color:

Color | Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Greece

Company:

Connaught International

Movie Connections:

Featured in Terror on Tape (1983)

Luke, I sacrifice virgins...

This is a totally unique movie! Yes…UNIQUE!! And why? Because it has the most promising and potentially great sounding plot, about the sacrifice of young female virgins to a hideous sea creature on a remote island community, and yet somehow it manages to be an extremely boring and totally uneventful film! Is that unique or what? I watched this movie less than 12 hours ago and I already have a hard time remembering what went on, actually. It has a bunch of uninteresting people, among them James Earl Jones, gathering on this peculiar island to search for a missing girl. She's there all right, but so is a freshly resurrected sea monster the natives are forced to feed virgins to! After that, I kind of lost track of the plot. Though that doesn't really matter, as nothing happens. The characters talk and talk and talk…and, occasionally, they throw around cats for some reason. There are no gory death sequences or cool sea monster designs, not even a bit of delightful sleaze. The monster is hardly shown on screen and when it is (for about 5 seconds) it looks like the most ugliest sock puppet ever. James Earl Jones' imposing voice is usually joy to listen to, expect when he exclusively talks nonsense like it is the case here. It must have been weird for those few unlucky people who saw "Blood Tide" at the cinema back in 1982. The Star Wars movies were hugely popular and Jones' powerful voice was automatically linked to the image of Darth Vader. Can you imagine Vader to jibber about the cheesy sea creatures, ancient Greek myths and virgin sacrifices? Do your brain a favor and skip this film...