Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I did not expect much from an unknown horror movie from the 1970:s - but I was so wrong! This movie was rich, beautiful and compelling! Both love, mystery and romance, science and old, old ghosts and superstitions, believable and interesting characters, scenic nature pictures from both above and under water, and wonderful music. It was much more intelligent and multifaceted than most horror movies. The special effects are not bad either, for its time.Leigh McCloskey, of course, has the ideal strong, masculine, bold, blond and blue-eyed Norse God-look for all time. The name Magnus, which is an old royal and noble name in Sweden, was very appropriate! And Connie Sellecca's perfect beauty makes her his perfect match. It would be worth watching this movie only for this perfect young couple - it gives you hope of humanity, in the midst of all the ugly, boring and nondescript people you have around you in your everyday life...

My old grandfather always used to say "boy, don't go chasing mermaids…". I just thought he was senile and never had a clue what he meant, but now after seeing this movie I do! My pop must have experienced something similar like the protagonist in "The Bermuda Depths". I guess the expression means: never trust a girl you meet on the beach, because she might turn out a minion of the devil who sold her soul in exchange for eternal life and terrorizes the Bermuda area on a ridiculously over-sized turtle… Makes sense, right? "The Bermuda Depths" is quite a bizarre film. I was getting worried and upset from the very first seconds already. I thought I had purchased a sea-monster movie/Bermuda Triangle mystery, and yet the film opens with a love balled sung by Claude Carmichael and elegant underwater photography. That can't be good. Then, to make things even worse, we're exposed to an overlong flashback depicting a youthful romance that predates "The Blue Lagoon" with two years and comes across as even smarmier. A boy and a girl meet on the beach and carve their initials in a turtle's harness (sadist kids!), but then suddenly she disappears into the ocean and he loses his father in a weird accident. Twenty years and numerous foster homes later, the boy returns to the beach area and joins his father old work buddies. They try to solve the Bermuda Triangle mystery and are convinced there's some kind of undiscovered animal species living in the depths at the ocean. The boy also meets his childhood crush again, but there's something very suspicious and hallucinated about her. You know, this movie is something fairly unique: one of the only amalgamations between dreamy fairy-tale romance and cheesy monster action! The impossible love-affair as well as Jenny's heartbreaking folklore legend is very likely to enchant, while Carl Weathers' obsessive hunt at least keeps the film somewhat intriguing. The first hour is pretty dull, but the last twenty minutes compensate for a lot! There are delightfully cheesy images of a mega- turtle (eat your heart out, Gammara!) and also miniature ships and fake helicopter explosions. The climax is very anti-American and thus very unexpected! I love it when that happens. Practically all my fellow reviewers have fond memories of this movie, as they apparently all watched it on TV during their childhood. Sadly I can't share the nostalgia. Neither can I share the sentiment that "The Bermuda Depths" is a great movie. It's weird and random, I'll give it that.

This excellent movie came out on TV in 1978 and some networks played it several times over a period of time. Then it disappeared. If anyone knows where to find a copy online or buy any format of it please let me know. Anyone is free to email me at bobbyallright@yahoo.com for any information on finding this super movie.Carl Weathers is in this movie a does an excellent job. The girl with the turtle connection and guy who dreams about their childhood both are great. This movie has stirred up quite a commotion online with many people reporting an intensely strong desire to see the movie again coupled with chilly memories of the 'woman with green eyes' from more than 25 years ago. I suppose the feeling is just like the guy in the movie who sees his girl disappear into the sea, longing to see her again. So this movie has somehow sadly vanished and tons of people out there want to see it, rent it, buy it. Anything...just let us see it again!!! Please! But unfortunately it is as rare as finding a unicorn.If you are one of us you might also want to sign the petition for a DVD release at http://www.petitiononline.com/bermuda1/ where there is proof that more than 1,000 people really want this made for TV movie to become available.

I was bored and a search on Google for giant turtle etc etc brought me here to this page and it's great to see that there are others!Well just to echo all the echoing I have to do the same and say I'm another one of those kids who saw this movie about the giant turtle, the carved initials, the boy and girl on the beach in the sand. According to other comments it was in 1978 I guess when I was 7 or 8 depending on the month, and I was affected deeply by it.I'm not much of a movie fan even but don't know what it is exactly, the images and sounds really have "haunted" and "lingered" with me deep down inside for all these years.It's not as if you bring up a movie about a giant turtle at all really (my wife thought I was nuts but to give her credit her parents hadn't even met in 1978) but a funny thing happened this one time. Ironically enough it was probably the last time I thought about the 'Giant Turtle'.A few years back when I was meeting my hometown best friend's fiancé for the first time we got to talking over a few bottles of wine about this and that and somehow that giant turtle got into my head - and I mention it thinking whatever, it'll be a "Giant what?" kind of response when instead I get stunned silence and we sit there looking at each other like ... "Was there an egg in the sand??" "Maybe, and the initials on the turtle's shell, in the heart!" "'eah, and the guy getting hauled off at the end??" "The music??" "YEAH, and..." More stunned silence and then laughter - relief.We became each other's 'only other one' for just that couple of minutes and the 3 of us went on talking about the movie, explaining it to Trever and how weird it was and it was great.Who would have thought it was actually Action Jackson that got dragged down like that... Can't remember was he a good guy or a bad guy? Only remember I was a little sad. Striking imagery though.I'd have to say as well as a side note that even though there might be a part of me that does, I believe I do not want to see this movie again for the risk of ruining the magic.