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Best movie of this year hands down!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

I never even made it to the end ... and then when I read the plot summary I'm so glad I didn't; life is just too short!WHAT a waste of time! It must have been raining the afternoon they made this and they didn't have anything better to do with the time! Dreadful acting ludicrously stupid script - how on earth did it ever get on the screen?

Some kids party at a beach. It is decided that for the sake of fun, all cell phones will be confiscated. Further into the night some kids find some large cocoon-type thing.The next morning the beach is pretty empty except for one girl who's topless on a bench, two kids who are in lifeguard tower, three kids in a car and one guy is stuck in trash container.When topless girl steps into the sand, filaments grow out of it and she's sucked into the sand. In some poor and bizarre editing/directing choice, at the very same time some other guy from the car is also attacked by the sand as he's trying to make his way out of the car. And in yet another terrible decision, neither the kids nor the editor/director care for the dying girl but go nuts over the guy.For some there's no one else anywhere near the beach and they have no access to their cellphone. So the question is, how will the remaining kids get out of this situation, who will live and who will die? If you understand Hollywood politics, you know the answer to the second question. All that remains then is the how. And it's a long and slow process. The girl in the tower will be the leader and heroine, the poor guy with her has a thing for her so of course she treats him like trash. Occasionally they will come up with some idea but they sure take their time. It's near the end when finally there's some progress.The Sand is then a low-budget horror thriller, with uneven performances, cheesy but not horrible CGI effects, a script with a good concepts but that runs out of ideas. Clearly the main limitation here is the budget. This movie deserved better. We needed a better director and editor, a larger cast, more scares, more gore, more nudity. The problem is that given the main idea and the low budget, the movie should have been more fun and campy instead it takes itself too seriously. It's an enjoyable movie for what it is and certainly better than what most here think.

A group of twenty-somethings party the night away on the beach only to wake up the next day to discover that a ravenous multi-tendrilled creature lies hidden beneath the sand, waiting to devour them.The Sand draws inspiration from an awful lot of movies, the most obvious of which is Blood Beach (1980), which bore the memorable tag-line 'Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water - you can't get to it.". Other titles with which it shares similarities include Tremors (1990), The Ruins (2008), The Mist (2007), Rogue (2007), Black Water (2007), Frozen (2010), Splinter (2008), and The Raft segment from anthology sequel Creepshow 2 (1987). The problem is that The Sand isn't as good as any of the films it so closely resembles (not even Splinter).As soon as one of the characters insists that all mobile phones are to be put in a bag, out of reach, while the friends party hard on the beach, it is abundantly clear that this film is going to be bereft of clever ideas or originality. And so it continues, the film playing out in very predictable manner, the photogenic cast falling victim one-by-one to the killer spaghetti that lurks beneath the sand. It's not a painful watch, the hot babes in bikinis ensuring that there is always something to please the eye, but as a horror film it is definitely a disappointment, with zero tension or scares and some really bad CGI (for both the creatures appendages and the gore).

Surprisingly entertaining and well acted, The Sand isn't hardcore horror. There isn't a load of blood and guts, but when I was about 9, I saw a movie like this one called Blood Beach. That stuff was traumatizing and this one, brought back nice memories of that scary movie. The actors are quite likable (most of them anyway), making it tough to watch them bite the dust and my biggest plus was the fact that they acted like REAL PEOPLE. They handled things the way I would've which made it easier to root for them. On the down side, the CGI sucked (there's not much of it though) and the story would veer into 90210 levels of drama at times (is now really the right time to talk about who banged who?)The Sand is an easily digestible horror flick, short and fun to watch on a weekend if the genre mood strikes you.