Excellent Concept Equals Just OK Movie..(SPOILERS?)
I actually liked Blood Beach, it had a good concept, location and story. But it was just executed so amateurish that it didn't become the scary or shocking 80s gorefest it should have been.
I liked that there was an unknown sea monster pulling victims down into the sand and devouring them. I loved the whole abandoned amusement park/pier structure where the creature decided to call home. I also liked how some of the attacks were done, some especially the first victim's were done pretty suspensefully. I also liked the opening credits sound effects and music indicating the creature returning to it's lair.
However some of the characters were so poorly visualized especially Marianna Hill and all of the cops (minus the great John Saxon). These characters were boring, dumb and just poorly written.
The creature was also a let down. I liked that it actually looked like something from the sea, but the execution was horrible. It was stiff, you couldn't really see it's body and then they blew it up!! I couldn't figure out how that thing could have killed some of the people in the manner that it did, ie decapitation? Castration? It was so big it should have swallowed these people whole.
This movie really SHOULD be remade. There are plenty of creepy abandoned parks and piers that can be used for the story.