A
married couple named Neil (Martin Kove)
and Sherry (Mary Louise Weller) travels
to a mysterious Greek island in the
search of Sherry's missing sister
Madeline (Deborah Shelton) where they
find her but she doesn't seem to be the
same after being tormented by nightmares
and other twisted events in her life
along with encountering a drunken and
obnoxious man named Frye (James Earl
Jones) who has a twisted secret of his
own and one of them is a cave that has
some hidden treasure and a monster of
some sort that eats people up whenever
they decide to take a dip in the ocean.
Both Neil and Sherry spots a group of
children doing a ceremony on the top of a
rocky cliff and one of them tries to
sacrifice their life by throwing herself
in the ocean for this creature and they
also realises the residents there are
revealing their horrible secrets to them
too.
Well I spotted
clips of this film on the Terror
on Tape show which was about a
look at various obscure trashy horror
flick. It was trashy and a little dull at
times but sometimes it was interesting
wondering about this monster in the sea
as well as the nice looks at Greece.
There's the odd good performance and the
ceremony looked quite descent but the
film was a bit of a disappointment after
watching it all the way through. Well at
least they tried and it looked better
than most of those other trashy obscure
horror flicks.
The acting is just
above average but nothing too
spectacular. However, James Earl
Jones gives his performance a real
kick in the butt showing a great
obnoxious attatude to his role and
behaving powerfully nasty too.
I always like Martin Kove in his
criminal or bad ass roles but this time
he plays a good guy and still pulls it
off with his full of life attitude and
knowing how to be loud and aggressive too
when necessary. At first he seemed a
little too stale but when the story rolls
he fully gets into it.
Mary Louise Weller tried her best
playing the wife but she seemed a little
too plain. Oh well.
Deborah Shelton was perfect in her
mysterious role of the film seeming
silent which she seemed to come across
mysterious as well as seeming normal too
in other spots. She also had a nice
stunning look to her part too which is a
bonus for a horror film.
Lydia Cornell was not a terrific
actress and made the direction look
lacking since she was basically all looks
and not much talent. Typical trashy
b-film horror actress.
Irini Tripkou takes
off her top in a water cave bare
breasted.
Lydia Cornel takes
the top of her bikini off before swimming
into the water and is briefly exposed
with her breasts as well.
There's some blood
splurting out in the water as well as
chewed up body parts in different scene's
caused by this monster.
Richard Jeffries
is quite slacking with his work on the
film but let's try to see what is worth
reviewing on his work with this. Well...
he shows a very boring prologue with
supporting actress Irini Tripkou
in a cave with a ceremony happening and
it doesn't overly explain itself but of
course that's due to bad writing yet the
directing itself doesn't look too
believeable.
We have many slow dialogues between
Martin Kove and Mary Louise
Weller while landing and trying to
enjoy themselves which look not too
shabby but nothing to brag about.
We have some good blocking with James
Earl Jones grabbing Kove
and pointing a knife to his throat which
was well aggressively directed.
We have some descent dialogues with Jones,
Kove, Weller and Lydia Cornell around
a table having a discussion with
Jones getting stern at times which
seemed a bit amusing.
There's a good scene with Deborah
Shelton taking a whole set of
perfume type lotion and rubbing it on
herself and going into the water to do so
as well like she's in a trance.
There's a great strong dialogue between
Shelton and supporting actress Lila
Kedrova as a nun at a cathedral
which Jeffries put alot of work
with those two discussing something
serious.
We spot a good camera shot on Shelton
waking up from a nightmare with different
clips here and there from the nightmare.
We spot a close up camera shot on Cornell
taking off her bikini top and then
jumping into the ocean. She acts
sarcastic talking to some guys watching
her which was quite slacking as Jeffries
should've put it in better shape.
There's many interesting camera shots in
the ocean approaching a cast member in
the water.
There's a nice scene with Jones
pointing his speare gun towards Kove
in a water cave with him acting
aggressive towards him.
There's a nice shot with a supporting
cast of kids practising their own
ceremony near a cliff of rocks near the
ocean with young actress Rania Photio
standing in the middle with the other
kids circling around her singing a chant
in Greek language and then a good
suspenseful shot on her falling into the
ocean with another supporting actress
played by Despina Tomazani as
her mother crying out and jumping into
the ocean to try and rescue her. This I
had to say looked well directed.
We spot a nice shot on Shelton
looking afraid and then screaming after
looking an an obscene artwork picture and
then a good shot on her running through
some corridors and then a perfect shot on
Kedrova sitting near a fireplace
and then turning her head showing a
monstrous face.
We have some good intense moments with Kove
and Weller towards Jones
acting drunk and out of it during the
ceremony along with the odd jumping
moment that involved Photio
doing her performance. Plus we get a good
close up shot on a roast on a fire.
We have a nice camera shot on Shelton
lying on a rock in the cave acting
emotionally frightened along with
Jones swimming into the water trying
to battle the creature.
The music was very cheesy
and trashy sounding but some of it was
quite good listening to some high pitched
woodwind music along with some gloomy
sounds when the monster is about to
attack along with the odd drum thumping
too. The composer was Jerry Mosley.
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