Great Film overall

Good concept, poorly executed.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This is one of the scariest movies I have seen. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. This is scarier Then The Shining and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. And that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Friday the 13th and that is not easy to do. I do not why it got a 3.7. I do not know why do not like this movie. Maybe more people who like monster movie should see this movie. I would think most who like scarier movie would give 10 out of 10. Which what I gave it. Stop underrating this movie.

I'm a big fan of the soggy rip-offs that followed in the wake of Spielberg's JAWS, but I'm the first to acknowledge that most of them weren't very good. One of the worst is BLOOD TIDE, a film that features a good cast, is shot in Greece to give it that exotic, continental look, and has a great-looking humanoid monster lurking in the depths to drag pretty, sometimes naked, girls to their deaths. So why is it so bad? Because the monster shows up for little more than a couple of seconds, the murky underwater camera-work is diabolical, the whole movie is underlit and the script sucks, big time. It comes as little surprise that Nico Mastorakis – director of the sleazy video nasty ISLAND OF DEATH – had a hand in the script!Good ol' James Earl Jones (CONAN THE BARBARIAN) is the star of the show and also the best thing in the movie, even though his performance is pretty bad. Watch out for the fun diving sequences which have him heavy breathing, just like another one of his creations. That's gotta be an in-joke. What else does the movie offer? A sub-plot involving some mad nuns which is undoubtedly the most boring part of the film, really serving to drag things down. Plenty of blonde bimbo actresses who starred in DALLAS and whatnot, giving cheesy performances. Martin Kove redefining the meaning of 'wooden' – how did this guy carve out a career in Hollywood after this? Films like this tended to throw in an 'old era' actor for the more senior viewers, so Jose Ferrer's on hand here, but he has nothing to work with.The monster attack scenes are boring, with no suspenseful music, nothing to recommend them – just a tin of red paint poured into the water, that's all you see. I wish I could have seen more of the monster, because it DID look cool, but the last scenes of the film take place in almost utter darkness, so you'll end up squinting in an effort to see what's going on. I did like the Greek locales, but there's no taste of Greece here – they're wasted. BLOOD TIDE is no HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP, that's for sure; the low budget scuppers this one from the start. Endless, irrelevant conversation and people wandering around are the order of the day here, and it doesn't make for a good film – just a crappy one.

In ancient times the inhabitants of a Greek island sacrificed their daughters to a reptilian creature that lived in a cave under the sea. It went into hibernation and was eventually sealed inside the cave but the superstitions remained. Then one day two people, "Madeline Grice" (Deborah Shelton) and "Frye" (James Earl Jones) came to the island and discovered some old coins hidden in what turned out to be the exact same cave. Thinking that there may be a valuable treasure behind the sealed door, Frye blows it open with plastic explosives. This causes the creature to awaken and feed on people one by one. Now, while this might sound like a plausible plot for a film, certain key elements seem to be missing which requires the viewer to fill in the blanks. Along with that, the acting is mediocre, the special effects were bad and the dialogue is even worse. About the only good things about this movie are the local scenery and some attractive ladies to include Deborah Shelton, Mary Louise Weller (as "Sherry Grice") and Lydia Cornell ("Barbara"). But it wasn't nearly enough.

Poorly made Lovecraftian-type monster movie about a legendary creature from hell accidentally released and seeking sacrificial victims. You see the monster for about four seconds, which was probably for the best. Filmed ion Greece, which did nothing for the movie. James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer at least got a holiday out of it. Martin Kove arrives at a coastal village seeking his sister. Deborah Shelton plays the fetching nymphet, and a couple of other beauties spend a fair amount of time in skimpy bikinis. But there is nowhere enough nudity and very little gore or violence. Shelton has one nice scene near the end where she writhes in orgasmic delight, dressed in nothing but a wet shirt. Still, there's little to recommend this misfire.