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Simply Perfect

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.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

It's very strange that some actors who have just done a major are doing a low budget that failed at the time being but became a cult favorite afterwards. This so called monsterflick is one of them. Burt Young just did Rocky, and continued doing that and after Blood Beach doing another classic Once Upon A Time In America. John Saxon, the same, Black Christmas and Nightmare On Elm Street, in between this flick. You are only 5 minutes into the movie and the boom appears. Not only once but a few times throughout the movie, not only that, the protection against lens flair due the sun onto the camera appears a lot too throughout the movie. The quality of the film used is poor too, a lot of drop outs are visual. It never had a good release, never went on DVD, and the transfer to VHS was poor too. So to find it you will only catch it on VHS from the US, all bad quality. But still, the movie is watchable, sometimes it's a bit slow and some scene's are too long but it has a bit of suspense. It never becomes gory or bloody, in some killings you see the result of the creature. The storyline itself is sometimes a bit to much about the love between the main actors. But if you like exploitation and grind house flicks than this one is for you, compare it with another one from that time Slithis. Only for Europeans it will be a little harder to get a grip on a copy but hey, the web will help you.

Blood Beach is a cheap movie with quite an original monster. This monster lives under the beach and sucks people into the sand which is quite scary, unfortunately there's very little monster action. You won't see much of the monster at all in fact, much less than for instance the boom mike or people sharing a candlelit meal which trust me you'll see plenty of.This isn't really horror, it's a romance with a couple of early deaths to keep your hopes up. There's also a drunk looking detective who spouts meaningless lines, often about Chicago and some totally random and not terribly good singing thrown in. My favourite character was the vet/doctor/coroner who puffs away on his unlit pipe and robs his lines of any meaning whatsoever with his glacier slow delivery.I wish this had been a movie about a sand monster as billed, that would have been quite fun but this film is just too slow and lacking in thrills to really be entertaining. It did leave me with one question though - is it wrong to date another woman the day after your girlfriend is eaten by a sand monster? Sure your friends will never mention her again and you'll show no signs of remembering her and your new romantic interest won't care but still..I think I'd leave it another day but maybe I'm just an old romantic.

"Blood Beach" is an okay if not entirely spectacular creature feature.**SPOILERS**Following a strange disappearance, Catherine Hutton, (Marianna Hill) learns from ex-fiancée Harry Caulder, (David Huffman) about the true nature of the disappearance. When it soon starts to become apparent that something is living under the beach and attacking people, Captain Pearson, (John Saxon) orders Sergeant Royko, (Burt Young) and Lieutenant Piantadosi, (Otis Young) to investigate the disappearances and find out why people are disappearing on the beach. Getting together, they realize that the victims are the result of a series of attacks by a ravenous creatures living underneath the sand, and soon use all their resources to stop the deadly creatures from killing everyone in their path.The Good News: There was a couple things to this one that worked. One of the big ones is that the film has a rather unique killing concepts regarding it's monster. This one absolutely never shows it, really only giving a shot of a minor tentacle, but due to the extremely inappropriate manner of seeing it in the dust and darkened room generates a really obscured look at it so we never really know what the creature looks like, and that makes for a successful adaptation of it. That it uses a great tool as well to conduct it's attacks, using the sinking sand to swallow victims is a nice concept and manages to work for some good, iconic moments that are utilized from it's choice of monster attack. There's a few of these attacks that actually do have some fun, and these are noteworthy for being the film's only action until the end, since the sight of the humans sinking into the sight screaming their lungs off, or the main one where a victim is attacked on the beach in full view of everyone as they're buried in the sand by their friends, leaving a big impression. The ending here is one of the only other scene in here that actually works, due to the raid on the basement, it's creepy location included and nice setting included in the action manage to work for it and the assault from the squad delivering a nice blow-off to the creature. The last minor point that works is the sequence where a victim crawls up out of the sewers horribly mangled and disfigured, covered with slime and gore and generally looking like a mess, which is later confirmed by the report giving the description of the victim that looks like the images seen. These here are all that work for the film.The Bad News: There was a couple of big flaws to this one that hold it down. The main one here is the fact that this one doesn't really have a whole lot of entertaining moments, leaving most of it feeling rather dull. There's not a whole lot of attacks in here, leaving most of it to deal with the investigation of the disappearances. This one takes out the investigation angle nearly forever in here, rather spending time with the police wandering around the beaches talking with each other or the others on the beach about what's going, and these are spread-out throughout the beginning of the film. These take up way too much time without nothing exciting happening, and this remains a flaw. That also manages to make the biggest flaw in the whole film apparent, in that the film has no real attacks at all. There's barely any at all in the film, since there's plenty of time spent elsewhere that doesn't really do anything of importance which takes time away from the attacks in here. This one has such a low body-count from it's attacks that it has a big problem with those scenes. Also noteworthy about these is that the kills all pretty much consist of pulling the victim below the sand, an impressive visual but requires no gore to come from them at all, and it's not anywhere close to giving it anything. The monster-no-show is one that depends on personal tastes, but these altogether are the film's flaws.The Final Verdict: Not exactly brimming with vital qualities but still having enough to make it seem worthwhile, this is a real take-it-or-leave-it affair. Give it a shot if you're into these kinds of films or find it interesting, otherwise stick to others more worthwhile or at the very least, heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Brief Nudity, an attempted rape and animal violence

I agree w/ what some of the reviews here had said already. One of them being that it's a mistake or blatant misadvertisement to think or call this a 'horror' film. For a horror film, it had an unbelievable load of load of character-development and between-the-sheets-action which make up for an obvious lack of plot here. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the writers went on to write episodes of General Hospital, Dynasty, or other 80s soaps. And because of that, the film is boring and just wonders away from more fascinating things aimlessly. At least that's what I remember because it's been a year or so since I seen it last.However, never fear. I didn't watch this because it was critically acclaimed or anything. In comparison to today's more action-like-horror-films which offer no tits, no sleaze, no blood or cool effects even, it's a keeper because I get sick of that real quick. I watched namely because of John Saxon, the promise of tits, sleaze, scaly tentacles, and a few pints of blood. That was it, and it was fun. In the end, it's all that really counts.