Just perfect...

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Something went horribly wrong. It's 1982, and we have a long list of positives, that should have delivered a good creature feature. Start with Technicolor exotic Greek island locations, add some slight feeling of cinematography, artistic set up shots, add to this some outstanding actors and some scantily clad females frolicking on the sunlit beach. It's a long list of pluses. How did it fail? As mentioned before, there are a solid troupe of actors led by James Earl Jones, and Jose Ferrer. They sit, talk and react, almost all in this movie would do a "Actors Studio" improv session proud. They think about their parts, and try to guess their motivation. That is what many of the scenes feel like. The only thing missing is a comprehensible scrip. As stated, the individual elements are good, The Archaeologist who discovers the Islands "dark secret" The ancient monastery with kindly Nuns who fear the "dark secret" The Islanders, a superstitious bunch led by Jose Ferrer, who want the intrusive island visitors to be gone, The brash young newlyweds seeking the lost sister, and the treasure hunter, James Earl Jones who unleashes the islands "dark secret". Given these elements a screenwriter with half a sense of direction could churn out an acceptable product. But no, that was not to happen. I feel the director hired someone to design the monster, the key to the movies action, but in the end was unhappy with the creatures design, and decided not to use it, the "hokey" creature shows on screen for a total of four seconds. I think it shows up as a costume in the islanders "folk dance" The problem is, without a monster, the show has no anchor for all the fine acting, as was stated by a finer poet then me, "The center can not hold, things fall apart!".On the plus side, the actress who played the ditsy Barbara was fun to watch, and had some good lines, The actress who played Marylin, the "conflicted" sister, did not have a convincing grasp of what she was suppose to be doing, archaeologist, or sacrificial maiden. The lack of logic, not usually a stumbling point in creature features, here became an insurpassable obstacle. I was never aware of James Earl Jones characters reasoning, but he sure sounded good. The ending was a confusing, poorly plotted attempt to bring the elements together. Thats the reason for the major "fail" The stronger the good points, the harder the fall.

"Blood Tide" is a movie about people in Greece who talk, and talk, and talk, are occasionally attacked by a sea monster, and then talk some more. The pace was so mind-numbingly slow that I started doing multiplication tables in my head for some excitement.Then, after what seemed like 12 hours of talking and nighttime sequences that were too dark to tell what was happening, someone died and had money shoved in their mouth, and James Earl Jones was yelling at nuns, and I had no idea what was going on. I stuck it out to see what the monster looked like, but I blinked at just the wrong second and missed that too. This is not a "so-bad-it's-good" movie like "Plan 9", it's a "so-boring-you-may-end-up-in-a-coma" movie. Unless you're looking for a cure for insomnia, skip this one.

I bought this film with another 49 from amazon.com.It came within the famous sci-fi pack so many times here commented among IMDb-USERS.What surprises me more is this paradox,an 3.5(MARK) but 35 comments.Generally speaking,it is a good adventure in a film with serious problems of photography(the copy that i have!),a monster that we rarely see,peasants of a small Greek island and a stupid blonde.These characters were mixed-up with a gorgeous couple and a some sort of"archaeologist" who is fan of destroying monuments instead of study them to fulfill this story.Nothing great ,but one can watch it without commitment.

"Blood Tide" is about a young couple who go searching on a Greek isle for the husband's sister, only to find that the sister is friends with an archaeologist who discovers a secret underwater cave and ultimately releases a creature with a taste for virgin blood! This film started off pretty slow, but after the first half-hour, it starts to get better. We only see the monster for about 3 seconds, and when you do, you kind of wish you hadn't! It is a very fake-looking monster, and it ruined the eeriness of the situation. If I were the director, I wouldn't have showed the monster at all, just let the viewers' minds fill in the blanks, which is scarier than anything that could be shown on screen. The acting is alright, and dialogue is a little iffy, but all in all, I recommend this nice little horror flick! Rated: R for Violence and Brief NudityGrade: C-