Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Woodyanders Magnus Dens (a fine and engaging performance by Leigh McCloskey) suffers troubling and nightmarish memories of his traumatic childhood. Magnus joins up with crusty scientist Dr. Paulis (nicely essayed with cranky aplomb by Burl Ives) and his hearty assistant Eric (a delightfully robust portrayal by Carl Weathers) to investigate what's been causing unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile, Magnus meets and falls for the beautiful and enigmatic Jennie Haniver (bewitching Connie Selleca), who has an unusual link to what's going on in the triangle.Director Tom Kotani, working from a quirky and engrossing script by William Overgard, relates the compellingly idiosyncratic story at a hypnotically deliberate pace, makes excellent use of the breathtaking Bermuda locations, and ably crafts an eerie and poetic dreamy mood. The doomed romance between Magnus and Jennie gives this picture an unexpectedly haunting and poignant quality (Jennie's lonely plight and inability to form permanent emotional connections in particular rates as quite tragic and touching). Moreover, the filmmakers deserve extra praise for putting a welcome and refreshing emphasis on characters and atmosphere over cheap scares and fancy pyrotechnics, with the action involving a giant turtle occurring in the last third. The special effects are pretty rough around the edges, but do the trick just the same. Ruth Attaway does well as sage and superstitious local Delia while ravishing former Playboy Playmate Julie Woodson contributes a respectable turn as Eric's concerned wife Doshan. Kudos are also in order for Jeri Sopanen's striking underwater photography as well as the gently spooky and melodic score by Maury Laws. An admirably unique and affecting little item.

Coventry My old grandfather always used to say "boy, don't go chasing mermaids…". I just thought he was senile and never had a clue what he meant, but now after seeing this movie I do! My pop must have experienced something similar like the protagonist in "The Bermuda Depths". I guess the expression means: never trust a girl you meet on the beach, because she might turn out a minion of the devil who sold her soul in exchange for eternal life and terrorizes the Bermuda area on a ridiculously over-sized turtle… Makes sense, right? "The Bermuda Depths" is quite a bizarre film. I was getting worried and upset from the very first seconds already. I thought I had purchased a sea-monster movie/Bermuda Triangle mystery, and yet the film opens with a love balled sung by Claude Carmichael and elegant underwater photography. That can't be good. Then, to make things even worse, we're exposed to an overlong flashback depicting a youthful romance that predates "The Blue Lagoon" with two years and comes across as even smarmier. A boy and a girl meet on the beach and carve their initials in a turtle's harness (sadist kids!), but then suddenly she disappears into the ocean and he loses his father in a weird accident. Twenty years and numerous foster homes later, the boy returns to the beach area and joins his father old work buddies. They try to solve the Bermuda Triangle mystery and are convinced there's some kind of undiscovered animal species living in the depths at the ocean. The boy also meets his childhood crush again, but there's something very suspicious and hallucinated about her. You know, this movie is something fairly unique: one of the only amalgamations between dreamy fairy-tale romance and cheesy monster action! The impossible love-affair as well as Jenny's heartbreaking folklore legend is very likely to enchant, while Carl Weathers' obsessive hunt at least keeps the film somewhat intriguing. The first hour is pretty dull, but the last twenty minutes compensate for a lot! There are delightfully cheesy images of a mega- turtle (eat your heart out, Gammara!) and also miniature ships and fake helicopter explosions. The climax is very anti-American and thus very unexpected! I love it when that happens. Practically all my fellow reviewers have fond memories of this movie, as they apparently all watched it on TV during their childhood. Sadly I can't share the nostalgia. Neither can I share the sentiment that "The Bermuda Depths" is a great movie. It's weird and random, I'll give it that.

kpayne27 I have thought of this movie for 30 years, asking my parents if they remembered, but they didn't. I wondered for awhile if I dreamed the whole thing up, or if the movie was just a TV show, or an actual movie. I do know that it left such an impression that I have never forgotten it! My memories are sort of vague, but I remember that it involved some giant sea turtle or turtles and some sort of music that I loved. I thought I would never know the answers, but here I have found it after searching around just a little on this sight. I see that many people remember this movie and I am not alone! I am wondering how I would get a copy? I can't say really if I love it, hate it, I just REMEMBER it as a six-year-old and it has never left my mind. I find it very strange that it would stick with me as it has, and feel I MUST see it again!

burlyd114 I am absolutely shocked at how may kids of the 70's this movie has stuck with after all these years! Like everyone else, I was 7 or 8 and never forgot this movie. I've mentioned it in passing several times and always got a crazy look. A movie about sea turtles? I thought I was the only one who remembered the giant sea turtle movie, or maybe I dreamed up the whole thing. Should I ever have the opportunity to see this horribly wonderful movie again, I'm sure I'll ask myself what the amazement with the movie was about in the first place. I'd LOVE to see it again - along with Lucan the wolf boy. Make sure you sign the petition at the website listed in a previous comment!