Overrated and overhyped

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Great b-movie with a good cast and typical jaws scenario. i saw it years ago on uk sat tv and stubbled about it on a cable channel this evening. if you like the classic killerfish story, then watch this - also, or because the monster is not in the water! the mood in this movie is, as you know it from A movies water & beach flicks. recommend it to everyone who, like myself enjoys such films.

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

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.

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.