Diagonaldi Very well executed

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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!

1bilbo This has a similar plot and layout to Blood Beach and also to a (I think,) twilight zone short in which swimmers in a lake are attacked by a floating bin sack.If you consider being able to shriek to be good acting then this is for you.There is absolutely no subtlety to either the acting or the plot and it is difficult to understand how a director could ever think this little opus was worth anything other than the trash can.Which makes me think that these rubbishy films are simply a tax avoidance scam – make a film that sucks but pay yourself a great fee so the tax on your finance is avoided but you still reap rewards. Plus the junk film gets rented out to cable and late night channels and you have an ongoing royalty income. Only after a person has watched the film do they realise that they just wasted 90 mins of their time.

Arch Stanton 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.

myignisrules Surprisingly entertaining and well acted, The Sand isn't hardcore horror. There isn't a load of blood and guts, but when I was about 9, I saw a movie like this one called Blood Beach. That stuff was traumatizing and this one, brought back nice memories of that scary movie. The actors are quite likable (most of them anyway), making it tough to watch them bite the dust and my biggest plus was the fact that they acted like REAL PEOPLE. They handled things the way I would've which made it easier to root for them. On the down side, the CGI sucked (there's not much of it though) and the story would veer into 90210 levels of drama at times (is now really the right time to talk about who banged who?)The Sand is an easily digestible horror flick, short and fun to watch on a weekend if the genre mood strikes you.