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   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.
 
   We spot a  very boring prologue with
                            a virgin  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. 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.We have many slow discussions between the married couple Neil    and Sherry  while landing and trying to
                            enjoy themselves which look not too
                            shabby but nothing to brag about.
 We have some descent discussions with the main character's  around
                            a table as well as Frye  getting stern at times which
                            seemed a bit amusing.
 There's a good scene with Madeline  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 conversation between Madeline   and a Nun at a cathedral
                            in which their discussing something
                            serious as this was strongly done.
 We spot a good camera shot on Madeline  waking up from a nightmare with different
                            clips here and there from the nightmare.
 There's many interesting camera shots in
                            the ocean approaching someone member in
                            the water.
 We spot a nice scene with Frye  pointing his speare gun towards Neil  in a water cave with him acting
                            aggressive towards him.
 There's a nice shot with a group of kids practising their own
                            ceremony near a cliff of rocks near the
                            ocean with a girl  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  
                            her mother crying out and jumping into
                            the ocean to try and rescue her. This I
                            had to say looked well done.
 We spot a nice shot on Madeline  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 the nun   sitting near a fireplace
                            and then turning her head showing a
                            monstrous face.
 We have some good intense moments with Neil  and Sherry  towards Frye  acting drunk and out of it during the
                            ceremony along with the odd jumping
                            moment that involveda character named Lethe   doing her performance. Plus we get a good
                            close up shot on a roast on a fire.
 We have a nice camera shot on Madeline  lying on a rock in the cave along with Frye   swimming into the water trying
                            to battle the creature.
 Bottom line is that  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.
 
 
 The acting is just
                            above average but nothing too
                            spectacular. However, James Earl
                              Jones (Frye) gives his performance a real
                            kick in the butt showing a great
                            obnoxious attitude to his role and
                            behaving powerfully nasty too.  He shows some good blocking by grabbing someone and pointing a knife to his throat which
                            was well performed. He does well by being stern too in another situation. I always like Martin Kove (Neil Grice) 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 (Sherry Grice) tried her best
                              playing the wife but she seemed a little
                              too plain. Oh well.
 Deborah Shelton (Madeline Grice) 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. Plus she knew on how to scream after spotting something. She also does a nice job by acting emotionally frightened when the terror strikes.
 Lydia Cornell (Barbara) was not a terrific
                              actress and made the direction look
                              lacking since she was basically all looks
                              and not much talent. There's a moment when she acts sarcastic towards others which needed to be whipped in better shape here. 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. 
 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.                           |