Review: "Blood Sand"
I make no apologies for my love of extremely bad movies. I also thoroughly enjoy a lot of good movies. It's the rare occasion and film that walks that fine line that bothers me.
A bunch of teens(?) go to the beach one night to have a "Las Vegas" party. Essentially, a party where anything goes, but NOTHING leaves the beach. All phones are taken. No posts about the party are allowed. The kids spend the night just drinking and partying. At some point in the evening, they want to build a fire and look around for things to burn (hilariously) two dudes find ... something on the beach they think will burn. It's a giant, slimy, egg-shaped thing. Realizing it is too wet to burn, they set it aside, and the party rages on.
The next morning, a few of the kids wake up to find almost everyone is gone. They wake up in a car, a lifeguard stand, half-nude on a picnic table, even a trash can. Hungover and ready to get home away from the rising sun, the girl on the picnic table hops down to throw up and head out. When her feet hit the sand, she quickly realizes she isn't going any further. She attempts to pull herself free, screaming the entire time and alerting her friends. They all quickly see that she is being devoured by the sand, as if something some unseen entity is eating her alive.
Depending on where you look, this was either called "Blood Sand" or "Killer Beach" or even "Blood Beach." I couldn't really find why it was known by so many different names, but my guess would be that distribution companies are to blame. Another small-cast movie that's quick to set up the plot and quicker to get to the point.
While not a particularly special-effects-heavy film, they do a lot with what they have as far as budget. The loan exception being Jamie Kennedy getting his arm ripped off. Yes, he is in this, and more strangely, he actually does a pretty good job here. The rest of the cast of basically no-name actors (no offense) are really good here too, at least for a low-budget horror movie.
My only real gripe with The Sand is that it never really goes far enough either way. It doesn't get overly campy, and it doesn't get serious enough. It just kinda floats in the middle somewhere. Again, perfectly serviceable as a horror film. I'm not sad that I watched it; I'm more sad that I don't feel any need to tell someone else they have to see this terrible/great flick.
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