Blood beach is a 1981 american horror film written and directed by jeffrey bloom, and starring david huffman, john saxon and burt young. Its still unavailable on dvd, and if no one owns the rights to the film its the kind of film code red and blue underground would release. The blood beach monster is a large wormlike creature with sickly green skin and a flowerlike mouth. Whodunit is a wondrously inept and totally redundant lowbudget flick with all the right ingredients. Blood beach is a 1981 b movie written and directed by jeffrey bloom. Blood beach 1981 posted on august 24, 2016 september 7, 2017 by dan gillette 80s horror movie posters were enough to get your ass in the theater seat. Death penalty 1980 colleen dewhurst, joe morton, david labiosa, dana elcar, marcelino sanchez. The top ten films released in 1981 by box office gross in north america are as follows. Who owns the rights to the 1981 horror film blood beach starring marianne hill, john saxon and burt young. Photograph your local culture, help wikipedia and win. Blood bath is a 1966 american horror film directed by jack hill and stephanie rothman, starring william campbell, linda saunders, marissa mathes, and sid haig.
Blood beach is a pretty bad movie and not in a cheesy good way. Finally, the film ends the way all good horror films do, though i just wish it hadnt been made so obvious earlier on. A popcorn monster flick giving a unique angle on the jaws theme. Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. An original 1981 television promo for writerdirector jeffrey blooms horror movie, starring david huffman, mariana hill, burt young, john saxon, stefan gierash, and otis young. The offspring, would have been a very appropriate title, i believe, but that never happened.
The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highestgrossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Additionally, blood beach is mostly filmed onlocation, so there are few desperately cheaplooking sets. The only that remotely saves this film is getting to see john saxon and burt young work together. It looks like blood beach had to be modified to get the rrating. Blood beach 1980 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It was a staple of the horror section in most video rental shops, but as dvd began to take over, blood beach never made the leap to the new format here in north america. This version was released in several editions on vhs by media. Blood beach had two brief theatrical releases in 1981 and 1982 before quietly making its way to vhs through a now defunct company called media home entertainment. The same label released the rrated version in uk and nl as well. Largest catalog of free movies including the latest and best films around. The shots over the end credits leave room for a sequel blood beach 2. Hordes of teens whod grown up watching edited versions of the roy scheider flick on tv rushed to the theaters to watch what seemed to be a part of the saga.
Blood beach 1981 cast and crew policemen john saxon, david huffman are baffled when people disappear, sucked into the beach by a sand creature. He begins to kidnap local women for his art pieces, and. Blood beach 1981 grindhouse theatrical trailer youtube. Although we dont see what is gobbling up the local residents and sun bleached babes until late on in the film i was, as a kid. Policemen john saxon, david huffman are baffled when people disappear, sucked into the beach by a sand creature. The premise, conceived by steven nalevansky, involved a. Blood beach 1980 in a spate of late 70s and early 80s paranoia fuelled animals and oddities go mad films, blood beach takes up the reigns left firmly in place by that great and humorous film piranha. Add to that a cast that really dont have anything to offer in their performances. Any horror movie with burt young and john saxon you know gonna be good.
Blood beach opens, simply enough, on a venice beach with a harbor patrol officer swimming to work apparently venice was scuzzy enough twentyplus years ago that a workingclass guy could live right on the waterfront and suddenly hearing a neighbor screaming because well, because shes getting pulled down a sinkhole and disappears. Plot summary in the novel blood on the beach we are introduced to one of the main characters kaleb a at risk teen who is on his way to a island meant for at risk teens such. A civilian military contractor, craig benson audie murphy, returns to the philippines during world war ii to search for his wife, ruth dolores michaels, who went missing two years earlier when. Blood beachvhs this extremely hard to find horror movie was made in 1980, it says this in the credits. Blood beach is an awful horror film that relies on a poorly written script and poor directing. The premise, conceived by steven nalevansky, involves a creature lurking beneath the sand of santa monica beach that attacks locals and vacationers. I will take a good 8os horror movie poster over a trailer any day. A creature lurking beneath the sands of venice beach attacks locals and vacationers. The next day, harry drives off with catherine to take her home, and the beach is once again full of sunworshipers.
Blood on the beach personal response the novel blood on the beach by sarah n harvey and robin stevenson is a highly intriguing novel that never lets go of your attention. In canada and other countries, a bootleg dvd was released, but it was a transfer of the us tape which means it just contains the rrated version as well. This was the same year when modern horror like friday the th, with jasons mother, who was the killer in the first, and only the first one, was out. A little boy digs a sand castle while his mother makes sandwiches, but when she turns back, the boy is gone and only a small sinkhole in the sand. Meanwhile, david huffman and mariana hill are oncealmostmarried old friends. The movie had a tagline that directly spoofed the one for jaws 2 1978, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, by saying instead, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wateryou cant get to it. Solarmovie best site to watch free movies online and. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. Extra star for the cool poster and dick snipping kill. Blood beach is a 1981 american horror film written and directed by jeffrey bloom and starring david huffman, john saxon, and burt young. Putlocker watch full movies online for free with best streaming in the internet putlocker.
Another worthy entry in the seemingly endless list of horrible 80s slashers, scared alive a. I think the main reason blood beach gets a low score is probably that it gets a little slow in places. Hence, i dedicate one of my pages to this great thing that is 80s horror. The blood beach monster is the main antagonist of the 1981 american horror film blood beach.
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