Blood Beach (1980)
2/10
As useful as whiskers on sausage
17 February 2004
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS? The above summary is a prophetic quote from one of the movie's characters. There really is no reason to watch this film. As one positive-thinking reviewer below noted, the soundtrack isn't too bad. And even the acting isn't very bad, but it's all so dull.

A monster lurks beneath a Los Angeles beach. Sometimes it sucks people down into the sand, the victims never to be seen again. Burt Young plays a cop from chicago, the whole depth of his character defined by a lame ongoing gag referencing his devotion to his former hometown ("this never woulda happened in chicago").

The woman who played the third housekeeper (Pearl) on Diff'rent Strokes has a cameo.

Nothing much happens in Blood Beach. It really drags. The monster appears at the end for LESS than one minute. That would be ok if BB had been building suspense. But it built nothing. So it's really not ok.

Oddly, about the only scenes I found to be somewhat effective happen during the end credits. The camera lazily pans around the beach. We see children playing, delighted with the funnel (the monster's tell-tale sign) growing in the sand. But by then it is waaay too little too late.
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