MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

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.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

BA_Harrison Satan's Triangle is a made-for-TV horror/thriller that takes the best part of its 74 minute run-time going nowhere (much like the yacht on which it is set), before throwing in a supernatural twist ending that makes it feel like an extended episode of Tales of the Unexpected.'70s hunk Doug McClure plays Haig, a US Coast Guard who investigates a yacht adrift in the mysterious area known as Satan's Triangle. After finding three dead bodies, Haig finally locates a survivor, Eva (Kim Novak), but as they are being winched onto the chopper by pilot Pagnolini (Michael Conrad), the cable snaps and they are ditched into the ocean. Dragging themselves back to the yacht, the pair must wait while Pagnolini goes for help; in the meantime, Eva recounts the events leading up to the deaths of her boat-mates.Despite two fine performers in the lead roles, Satan's Triangle never really builds up a decent rate of knots, and is awash with dull scenes of chit-chat that tend to drag. The creepy payoff is pretty neat, and no doubt affected many a young viewer back in the day (I suspect that the movie's biggest fans are the ones who, as children, caught it on TV when originally aired), but as a middle-aged first-time viewer I can't say that I'll be losing much sleep over this one.

tom_cavaliere I'm with everyone else who says this is one of the scariest movies ever made. I was 12 years old in January of 75 when this aired and yes, the movie lulls you into a false state of relaxation as the supernatural events are all debunked. After the last commercial, I was all set for the happy ending and the credits roll, then it was off to bed for another day of 7th grade. No one was conditioned for twist endings back then, especially in a TV movie, and then the last 10 minutes terrified me. Yes, terrified, I'm not kidding. I think I slept in my parents room the next week and when they ran it again in the summer of 75 or 76, I would shut the TV off when the previews came on. As a lot of 10 to 15 year olds back then who are all grown up now, it lives on in my memory as a classic.

Theo Robertson Getting an emergency call the Us Coast Guard scramble a helicopter crewed by Lt Commander Pagnolini and Lt Haig . Arriving at the scene of the emergency Haig abseils down on to a boat and finds a young woman called Eva . After the winch breaks Pagnolini returns to base to fix a repair leaving Haig on the boat with Eva who tells him of the events that killed everyone else on board Amazing to think nowadays after seeing countless made for television films on the SyFy and Hallmark channels that once upon a time in the 1970s TVMs were relatively good . We even saw a TVM directed by an unknown movie brat called Steven Spielberg called DUEL . This was a time when American networks seemed to have a genuine concern about quality and this film is amongst the very best that American television companies produced even though it perhaps cheats the memory somewhat What helps is that ST has a relatively large cast of well known names attached to it who despite not giving Oscar worthy performances aren't exactly slumming it either . Doug McClure perhaps best known in Britain for playing square jawed hunky heroes fighting against rubber monsters plays his usual smoothy type character . Kim Novak forever known as her lead role in VERTIGO brings a smouldering sexuality befitting of her character and we get actors like Ed Lauter and Jim Davis be better known in later roles To be honest not a lot happens in the film . Haig listens to Eva's story of the fate of the other occupants on the boat and she insinuates demonic forces are at work only for Haig to come up with rational explanations . What this TVM does superbly and why it's so remembered is that it lulls the viewers in to believing there is a rational explanation for all this only to pull the rug out from under the audiences feet with a twist in the tale . Okay it's rather corny and probably is nowhere as smart or as scary as you remember it from all these years ago but as someone who's watched far too many SyFy channel productions with CGI monsters running amok it still makes me nostalgic for an era where TVMs at least tried to spook the audience

moonspinner55 The latter-day, 40-something beauty of Kim Novak--striking and yet sinister--is milked for all its worth in this effective TV-made occult suspenser about a Coast Guard pilot investigating a doomed private yacht adrift on the waters, finding a sole survivor who seems to know the ship's many mysteries. The film builds suspense through tension and an atmosphere full of unseen dread. Although I was initially chilled by the well-handled twist ending, I was somewhat disappointed to see the film throw out all its mystery to instead become a battle between good and evil. I don't mean to suggest that's a bad thing, it's just that "Satan's Triangle" was doing such a fabulous job of being scary without being too specific that it's a bit of a letdown to see the story slip into formula. Nevertheless, a creepy, cunning item to jangle the nerves.