Blood Tide

Blood Tide

Year: 1982

Runtime: 82 mins

Language: English

Director: Richard Jefferies

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Evil lurks in the Ocean Depths An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

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Timeline & Setting – Blood Tide (1982)

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Location

Remote island off the coast of Greece

A remote Greek island serves as the primary setting, featuring a rocky coastline and a small village. Inland sits a convent, while offshore lies a hidden underwater cavern accessed by a sealed tunnel marked by a sigil. The island's isolation and ritual atmosphere drive the tension as locals and visitors uncover ancient secrets.

🏝️ Greek island 🌊 Secluded coast 🕯️ Convent on island

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Main Characters – Blood Tide (1982)

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Frye — James Earl Jones

A middle-aged treasure hunter who arrives with hostility toward Neil. He is willing to take dangerous risks, best demonstrated when he uses a homemade bomb to unseal a hidden tunnel. In the end, he sacrifices himself by detonating the cavern to destroy the serpent.

🧭 Treasure hunter ⚔️ Conflict 🕯️ Sacrifice

Madeline Grice — Deborah Shelton

Neil's missing sister and an artist who traveled to the island. On the island, her personality begins to change, and she becomes trance-like as she uncovers disturbing paintings in the monastery. Her altered state drives much of the mystery and leads to her entry into the underwater cavern.

🎨 Artist 🌀 Transformation 🔎 Mystery

Neil Grice — Martin Kove

A determined American husband searching for his missing sister. He follows Frye into the underwater cave to uncover the truth, showing resourcefulness and a protective instinct toward Madeline. He helps pull Madeline from the cavern as Frye detonates the tunnel.

🧭 Investigator 💪 Determination 🔎 Mystery

Sherry Grice — Mary Louise Weller

Neil's wife who accompanies him on the search. She notices Madeline's strange behavior and cares for those around her, including gifting a perfume to Madeline. She remains steadfast beside Neil as they confront the island's secrets.

💐 Support 👀 Observant 🤝 Partnership

Barbara — Lydia Cornell

Madeline's friend who joins them on their boat in a remote part of the island. She is attacked while swimming and killed, with her dismembered body later found by local children, underscoring the island's danger.

🌊 Danger ⚰️ Death 🚶‍♀️ Friend

Lethe — Rania Photiou

A young village girl who plays with the local boys and falls off a cliff into the water. Frye saves her from the sea, but her mother is later eaten by the serpent, highlighting the island's deadly mythology.

👶 Child 🌊 Water danger 🪸 Island life

Lethe's Mother — Despina Tomazani

Lethe's mother who tries to save her daughter but is claimed by the serpent, illustrating the personal cost of the island's dangers.

👩 Mother 🌊 Tragedy ⚠️ Fatality

Sister Anna — Lila Kedrova

The elderly mother superior of the convent. She appears in the island's religious setting and is found at the festival in a bloodied, shocked state after the convent is left in disarray with the nuns dead.

🕊️ Nun 🏛️ Church 💔 Tragedy

Sister Elena — Sofia Seirli

A nun at the convent who speaks with Madeline and witnesses troubling paintings uncovered in the walls. She embodies the island's religious atmosphere and mystery surrounding the paintings of saints and serpents.

🕊️ Nun 🎨 Art 🔮 Mystery

Nereus — José Ferrer

The elderly mayor of the island who greets Neil and Sherry and represents the local authority and tradition. His presence anchors the community amid the unfolding investigation.

🏛️ Mayor 🧭 Authority 🤝 Community

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Major Themes – Blood Tide (1982)

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🐍 Myth & Monster

The island harbors an ancient serpentine creature and a sigil-marked tunnel that hint at a myth older than Christianity. Madeline's escalating trance and the paintings in the convent suggest a supernatural influence at work. Frye's pursuit of treasure becomes entwined with the island's dark legends.

⚓ Isolation

The remote setting heightens paranoia and fear as outsiders are cut off from the outside world. The festival, convent rituals, and insular village life intensify the sense that danger lurks just beyond sight. Characters must navigate danger with limited help from beyond the island.

🔥 Sacrifice

Frye sacrifices himself by detonating the cavern to destroy the serpent, choosing the safety of others over his own life. The rescue attempts by Neil and Sherry underscore the moral costs of uncovering the island's mysteries. The dawn departure marks a costly but necessary end to the island's immediate threat.

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