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Friday, May 2, 2014

Blood Tide a.k.a. Demon Island (1982)

A British horror film directed by Richard Jefferies, starring James Earl Jones.
When a recently married couple are on vacation, they go to an island near Greece in search of the man's lost sister. They find her there among the irritable locals and a treasure hunter. The treasure hunter wakes an ancient monster while looking for riches and the locals try to revert to their old ways of sacrificing virgins to the monster.
You may recognize James Earl Jones' voice, but not his appearance. This is because his most famous roles were as Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King. He was also the voice of Ommadon in Flight of Dragons and the narrator for Long Ago And Far Away. Other than employing the talents of a famous voice actor, this film was one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen. It's not in the running for "worst film ever", but still, it's pretty bad. The audio was bad and much of it was in Greek(?) and there were no subtitles. The video looked like it was from 1972, not '82. The plot was stupid and full of superfluous characters and there was no style or flavor of any kind. I'm rating it shit.