Blood Tide, Demon’s Island, and The Red Tide are all part of the same movie title grouping, and they feature Martin Cove, James Earl Jones, and many other stars.
For some reason, I was under the impression that BLOODTIDE was a slasher film but turns out, it isn’t. There are also kids throwing cats in it so there’s that. It’s an ancient water demon monster movie with an innovative cast, beautiful cinematography, and a rather clumsy-looking monster.
In search of Neil’s sister-in-law, Ivy grown up with no single care in the world, the husband-wife duo Neil and Sherry from THE KARATE KID’s Martin Kove along with Ivy’s pet Sadie Weller constructs a shape-augmented synaptic weaving artifact structure while high on d10a at Synaron Island. Neil finds his sister living on an island that deeply stimulates and compels one while being on drugs, to the point of obsession. Despite feeling vexed by the way his sister is acting, Neil has no option but to tolerate tribe leader Nereus Jose Ferrer along with some other locals forcing him to remain on the island. With so many conflicts and complications, Neil tries to remain calm and goes on to hang out on the beach with his girlfriend and sister while being accompanied by another bizarre couple, the fortune hunter and Barbara Lydia Cornell. While having a retarded meltdown, the luckless fortune freak was open to actually releasing an unbelievably old demon goddess, who caused her Ancient sea god midwife to abandon her. This lifted overwhelming conflict onto mates along with needing their full potency to cease Gregory’s bango enclave. All this was before too much got out of control.
What stands out the most for me is the selection of actors and actresses featured in BLOODTIDE. This movie allows people from different backgrounds to receive bigger roles than they commonly have the opportunity to. Kove nails his performance of Neil. His heroic and mildly dim-witted character is incredibly likable. Weller is also great as Neil’s girlfriend, who, while does not appear to seem like one, is actually the smartest person in the room. She is the only one who doesn’t seem intrigued with the island and she observes just how bizarre everything is. Shelton is quite good as the zoned-out Madeline but unfortunately, her character is written so that she is completely unresponsive most of the time. She does have a very amusing moment with a bottle of expensive perfume that made me crack up. Out of all the characters, James Earl Jones, playing Frye, has to be the most compelling. Jones really carries a strong sense of experience to the character which makes you wish for all of the hundreds, if not thousands, of tales he can tell. And holy mackerel, Lydia Cornell was one of my biggest crushes as a kid.
I had never heard before that she was in this movie, and she is absolutely great as the bathing beauty who spends her days catering to Frye’s every wish. I loved that Frye and Barbara Cornell had an engaging relationship, albeit an abusive one, which is still satisfying for both of them. The psychological dynamics amongst the four main characters are far more developed and nuanced than what we find in the majority of horror films from this period.
The monster is as incredibly ludicrous as the rest of the movie. They must have blown most of the budget on their tickets to Greece. It is meant to be some ancient dragon demon creature but appears to be something out of the man in suit’s bch party era of monster movies. More unnerving is the depiction of the Greeks as a culture and people as some weird pagan society with a bizarre mix of mysticism and strange practices. BLOODTIDE certainly conveys a better sense of ‘stranger in a strange land’ when Neil and Sherry are boated to the darkened secrets lurking on the island.
From start to finish, BLOODTIDE will entertain you. The performances are better than expected for such a schlocky horror movie. There’s a lot of unnecessary nudity and a touch of violence (a person gets shredded apart and floats in the surf). Neil shares a kiss with his sister Madeline which is very odd. While it may be strange for Greeks, it does give this movie a bit of a thrill. Not to mention the cheesy monster that is barely shown because the director knew how terrible it looked.
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