The Sand (2015)

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent but underrated film

Don't Believe the Hype

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

My favorite movies are B horror movies. I've watched a lot of them. As long as the acting is tolerable and the plot is decent, I can look over a cheesy monster or being able to tell it had a low budget. This movie was really good for what it was. The effects were good. The acting was good. The only part of the movie I didn't enjoy was the life guard. He was so annoying and no one would act that way in real life. I definitely think this movie is worth watching. If I really enjoy a movie, I'll watch it numerous times after I find it. I've watched this one many times.

So bad it's like some tool made this movie for fun during pledge week... Who tf gives these people the money to make these movies??? Horrible!

Wow. Just Wow. I really don't know why I subject myself to this kind of torture. Somehow I stumbled across this title and said to myself "ok, I'll bite" Big mistake. The only reason I'm giving it 2 stars is because of the boobie shot they made the one bimbo do. Otherwise its one star all the way. Where to begin - the plot - a bunch of Southern California millenial morons have a beach party that goes to hell after dragging some kind of huge pod / testicle-looking thing onto the beach where it hatches during the night as the partygoers bang one another, stuff some fat dude in a steel drum and draw a penis on his face, and pass out in various places, with one chick so wasted that she passes out without her bikini top on. The next morning as everyone comes to, the lead bimbo sees a bird get eaten by the sand and, being the quick wit that she is, realizes if you walk on the sand you die. Cue the four dummies in the car, one of whom is the main bimbo's ex-boyfriend who's apparently banged the black chick sleeping next to him all to the dismay of the lead bimbo. So you just know that eventually they're gonna have it out over this muscle-headed douche (who's probably a closet "alternate lifestyle chooser" to begin with). Anyhow, as everyone awakens, the big fat black dude with a penis drawn on his face (who by the way is a close resemblance to Huell of Breaking Bad) has been shoved into a steel drum and is now stuck. As another boneheaded muscle-bound freak goes to help him out, he gets stuck in the sand and is eaten. From here on out its essentially a "have everyone die one at a time" formula, until the very end when the lead bimbo somehow gets her hands on some gasoline and torches "the thing", thus ending the ordeal. But for some reason we're subjected to another 3 or 4 minute scene of the two surviving chicks clutching each other in the police suv for what seems a ridiculously long time where you're expecting something else to happen. But nothing does. I was hoping for a little girl-on-girl action at the end. But that was not be. I'm guessing that the "actresses" in this crap-o-rama really believe that they're on their way to legitimate film roles and that their days of doing porn are over. But they really shouldn't give up their bread-and-butter just yet. In conclusion - this definitely rates up there as a real dog of a movie and gives Steven Seagal's "Sniper" a run for its money in the "freakin' ridiculous movie" category. Peace-out.

THE SAND is, in essence, a film version of that 'floor is lava' game you used to play as a kid (you know, where you and your friends - or just you if you had no friends) weren't allowed to touch the floor because you'd die, so you had to clamber over furniture and jump a lot. Man, I used to love that game. Anyway, this cheapie has the same premise. A bunch of uninteresting characters are trapped on a beach with a killer creature in the sand. A bench, a lifeguard hut, a trash bin, and an open-top car are the only refuge. This single location movie sees them trying to figure out a way to escape without being eaten by a tentacled nasty.This film's connections with the 1980s monster movie BLOOD BEACH are numerous, although it's much lower key and smaller scale, unsurprising given the lack of budget. Despite being a majorly flawed film, I still enjoyed it as I've always enjoyed similar single location movies. The acting is pretty bad and the CGI effects are really terrible (worse even than in an Asylum film) but THE SAND offers mild suspense all the way through and you can certainly do a lot worse.