IslandGuru Who payed the critics

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

draftdubya The really only thing that made me dislike this movie was the cop scene. It dragged on forever and was not funny at all.

annie_marks I never even made it to the end ... and then when I read the plot summary I'm so glad I didn't; life is just too short!WHAT a waste of time! It must have been raining the afternoon they made this and they didn't have anything better to do with the time! Dreadful acting ludicrously stupid script - how on earth did it ever get on the screen?

1bilbo This has a similar plot and layout to Blood Beach and also to a (I think,) twilight zone short in which swimmers in a lake are attacked by a floating bin sack.If you consider being able to shriek to be good acting then this is for you.There is absolutely no subtlety to either the acting or the plot and it is difficult to understand how a director could ever think this little opus was worth anything other than the trash can.Which makes me think that these rubbishy films are simply a tax avoidance scam – make a film that sucks but pay yourself a great fee so the tax on your finance is avoided but you still reap rewards. Plus the junk film gets rented out to cable and late night channels and you have an ongoing royalty income. Only after a person has watched the film do they realise that they just wasted 90 mins of their time.

BA_Harrison A group of twenty-somethings party the night away on the beach only to wake up the next day to discover that a ravenous multi-tendrilled creature lies hidden beneath the sand, waiting to devour them.The Sand draws inspiration from an awful lot of movies, the most obvious of which is Blood Beach (1980), which bore the memorable tag-line 'Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water - you can't get to it.". Other titles with which it shares similarities include Tremors (1990), The Ruins (2008), The Mist (2007), Rogue (2007), Black Water (2007), Frozen (2010), Splinter (2008), and The Raft segment from anthology sequel Creepshow 2 (1987). The problem is that The Sand isn't as good as any of the films it so closely resembles (not even Splinter).As soon as one of the characters insists that all mobile phones are to be put in a bag, out of reach, while the friends party hard on the beach, it is abundantly clear that this film is going to be bereft of clever ideas or originality. And so it continues, the film playing out in very predictable manner, the photogenic cast falling victim one-by-one to the killer spaghetti that lurks beneath the sand. It's not a painful watch, the hot babes in bikinis ensuring that there is always something to please the eye, but as a horror film it is definitely a disappointment, with zero tension or scares and some really bad CGI (for both the creatures appendages and the gore).