“The five people believed to have drowned here never even made it past the sand! BLOOD BEACH. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water – you can’t get across the sand!”

Director: Jeffrey Bloom / Starring: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, John Saxon, Burt Young.

Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace.  One of a cycle of 1980s and late 1970s movies that got made after the box-office success of Jaws (1975) including Orca (1977), Piranha (1978), Killer Fish (1979), Piranha 2: The Flying Killers (1981), Tintorera… Bloody Waters (1977), Up from the Depths (1979), Monster (Humanoids from the Deep) (1980) and Screamers (1979).