Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

artpf On leave in a shore side town, Johnny becomes interested in a young dark haired woman. They meet and he learns that she plays a mermaid in the local carnival. After strange occurrences, Johnny begins to believe that she may actually be a real mermaid that habitually kills during the cycle of the full moon.Low budget Roger Corman-ish budget.Very 60s.Almost filmed like an extended Twilight Zone episode.Man meets girl. Girl eats men. It's an interesting period place positioned right smack in the beat generation.It's worth a watch, but don't expect to be moved all that much. It's really a short story expanded to 90 minutes.

dbborroughs Good little film that is probably about 15 minutes too long for what it is. the plot concerns a sailor on leave who meets a young woman who plays a mermaid in a sideshow attraction. The question arises is she really a mermaid and does she kill according to the lunar cycle.Moody film benefits from some great performances and a sure hand from director Curtis Harrington. Harrington spins out the tale in such away that you really believe what is happening on the screen. Certainly the belief is a screen belief, at the same time you don't doubt its internal logic. I don't think there was any point where I was trying to out think the film or saw any chink in the armor that allowed the film to come apart. If there is any flaw is that the film tries to keep its spell cast for too long. Somewhere about an hour in the film seems to become less special and less magical and you attention becomes diverted. Its still a really good film, just not a the great one of the first hour.Worth seeing

Hitchcoc I thought this would be another of those dull, pointless things that are part of video collections. I was pleasantly surprised by several things. First of all is Dennis Hopper who was pretty photogenic. He plays a believable young sailor who finds himself in the middle of a weird setting, falling in love with a very attractive, mysterious young woman who apparently has blood on her hands. The characters are interesting and it is all pretty well acted. Hopper underplays his character and it works pretty well. He's not emoting but that's fine. The young woman tries so hard to get acceptance but has no awareness of who she actually is. All in all, the mystery is well handled and when all is said and done, things are pretty satisfying. There's even another mystery to chomp on.

InjunNose Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" probably didn't seem especially engaging on paper: it's a gentle, tragic love story with some slightly macabre overtones. But it clicks because of the utterly authentic locations (I was amazed to discover that Venice Beach, which looked so battered and defeated in Matt Cimber's "The Witch Who Came from the Sea", was in precisely the same condition more than a decade earlier!), Vilis Lapenieks' tasty cinematography, and David Raksin's jazzy, melancholic score. Dennis Hopper is okay, but I think he plays the young sailor as more of a noodlehead than was necessary. On the other hand, Linda Lawson is terrific as the beautiful, distant, otherworldly sideshow performer to whom Hopper is attracted, and Gavin Muir does a good job as Lawson's eccentric adoptive father. Comparisons to "Carnival of Souls" are inevitable because of the amusement pier backdrop, I suppose, but "Night Tide" is not a horror film. It would make a nice double feature with the aforementioned "The Witch Who Came from the Sea".