Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

thesar-2 The Stuff. The Blob (again.) And...Blood Beach. What do those three movies have in common? They're three movies I desperately want Hollywood to remake and with a budget, with real stars, a genuine script and ABSOLUTELY NO CGI!! I grew up on those B-movies. Scared the utter crap out of me when I was a yute. The Stuff just flat-out needs a remake and I can see it being very plausible and relevant nowadays. The Blob already had one 1988 remake, but they made it too alien-like and today I fear the whole thing would be CGI - SAD. And that leaves: Blood Beach.Blood Beach was this early 80s horror B-movie to capitalize on the JAWS-phase. It's bad, oh, it's so bad, BUT, the premise to a then-7-8 year old, was horrifying. There's this creature that lives under the sand on a popular beach and anyone that wanders onto the beach gets slowly sucked down, slower than quick sand and more devastating as it appears they're being eaten as they hopelessly gets pulled down to their doom.With a right budget, NOOOO CGI and a grander scale, a remake might work and be 10x more effective than the no-budget Blood Beach 1980s movie was. 2015's The Sand listens to none of this advice.That said, The Sand isn't the worst movie for what it was. Yeah, it's bad, and it had an overuse of the absolutely terrible CGI (See? NOOO CGI, jerks,) but it's nowhere as bad I thought it would be and I made it all the way through the semi-remake of Blood Beach.In a Cloverfield 1-type opening of an evening beach party of youths, many partiers pass out on the beach as probably intended. Oops, only the next morning, most of them are gone and the only surviving twenty-somethings are those who unintentionally fell asleep on objects above the sand. Once awaken, the hungover models (well, all-but one nerd) realize quickly the sand is somehow alive and any direct contact does not end well.So, most of the movie is them screaming at each other, creating drama that's totally pointless and frustrating to the viewer and for them to get to safety from one un-sandy place to another. The actual clever thing is, for the most part, they do some actual believable stunts and objectives and I actually admired multiple actions taking place at one time. With such bad CGI and shallow characters, it was refreshing to see them sometimes actually acting like real-life humans would.It's a total B-movie and ironically, looks worse than Blood Beach at times due to the horrible, dime-priced computer graphics. But, it's actually tense at times and you do root for some of them to live. It's harmless and if you have 80-some-odd minutes for some 80s-monster-nostalgia, this might work for you.***Final thoughts: Still, I'm getting so frustrated with Hollywood and probably Sharknado parts 1-19 and all those other fifteen-cent CGI films. Please, there are plenty of talented practical effect heroes out there to make a genuine monster movie. I wish for once, they would utilize these talented FX people vs for the quick buck of these talentless computer generated image nerds. Bah!

TdSmth5 Some kids party at a beach. It is decided that for the sake of fun, all cell phones will be confiscated. Further into the night some kids find some large cocoon-type thing.The next morning the beach is pretty empty except for one girl who's topless on a bench, two kids who are in lifeguard tower, three kids in a car and one guy is stuck in trash container.When topless girl steps into the sand, filaments grow out of it and she's sucked into the sand. In some poor and bizarre editing/directing choice, at the very same time some other guy from the car is also attacked by the sand as he's trying to make his way out of the car. And in yet another terrible decision, neither the kids nor the editor/director care for the dying girl but go nuts over the guy.For some there's no one else anywhere near the beach and they have no access to their cellphone. So the question is, how will the remaining kids get out of this situation, who will live and who will die? If you understand Hollywood politics, you know the answer to the second question. All that remains then is the how. And it's a long and slow process. The girl in the tower will be the leader and heroine, the poor guy with her has a thing for her so of course she treats him like trash. Occasionally they will come up with some idea but they sure take their time. It's near the end when finally there's some progress.The Sand is then a low-budget horror thriller, with uneven performances, cheesy but not horrible CGI effects, a script with a good concepts but that runs out of ideas. Clearly the main limitation here is the budget. This movie deserved better. We needed a better director and editor, a larger cast, more scares, more gore, more nudity. The problem is that given the main idea and the low budget, the movie should have been more fun and campy instead it takes itself too seriously. It's an enjoyable movie for what it is and certainly better than what most here think.

Shannon The reason I gave 6 stars was because this movie was truly not half bad. The acting was not horrible and the plot was suspenseful and retained my interest to the end. It's clearly a low budget movie but much better than most out there. If you are expecting perfection, then go watch a different movie. If you are looking for a random, suspenseful viewing, with some laughs, then I'd say this is worth your time.

fluffset I love to watch dead teenager movie, I dunno why but I think because its fun to watch. I never read any plot of the sand, I just watch it without nothing to expect and that's just my style. I love this movie! Its not really a good movie, its cliché but its still got the tension. This is a horror movie by the way so tension and suspense are really important here. I think I know why the rating is so low, its the same reason, people expecting too much and ended up frustrated. Its plot is not really idiot because its so hard to avoid the sand, so they also make us thinking so hard on how they can get out of this mess. They also make us care about some character and I'm sure some of us feel sad for some of the death. Then, this movie will be better if they got some more money for the cheap CGI. Only the CGI make this movie bad, other than that, the acting and everything is OK.