Blood Tide (1982)

Directed by

Richard Jefferies

Genre

horror film, monster film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

15

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young American couple travel to a Greek island to look into the disappearance of the husband's sister. They discover an ancient monster has been unleashed, and the islanders resort to human sacrifice to keep it calm.

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What happens

Blood Tide is a 1982 British horror film directed by Richard Jefferies, and starring James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Lydia Cornell, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove, and Deborah Shelton. Its plot follows a young American couple visiting a Greek island where the husband's sister disappeared; they soon find that an ancient monster has been released, forcing the villagers to return to the practice of human sacrifice to appease it. The film is also known as Bloodtide (in the US) and Demon Island (American TV title). It has been misconstrued as a public domain film and pirated by many distributors who copied it from DVDs. However, as per The Copyright Office, copyright is registered under Omega Entertainment, Inc. and the writer/producer of the film, Nico Mastorakis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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