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[[File:Nighttide 1961film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Dream sequence from ''Night Tide (1961 film)''...]]

''Night Tide'', AKA ''Girl from Beneath the Sea'', ''Death from Beneath the Sea'', ''The Night of Terror'' (1961)

==Summary==


"A temptress from the sea... loving... killing... was she Human? Lovers caught in a dark tide of sinister TERROR!" A sailor on shore leave at a sea-side town falls in love with a mysterious dark-haired woman who plays a mermaid in the local carnival, and soon begins to believe she might actually be a real sea monster which kills when the moon is full....

==Details==

* Release Date: 1961
* Country/Language: US, English
* Genres/Technical: Thriller, Fantasy, Romance, black-and-white
* Runtime: 1 hr 26 min
* Starring: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir
* Director: Curtis Harrington
* Writer: Curtis Harrington
* Producer/Production Co: Phoenix Films
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6-ZcVzzIQ link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: (not rated) (perhaps equivalent to modern PG for mild Violence and Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

I've never seen this film, but at a distance it looks a bit like Val Lewton's ''[[Cat People (1942 franchise)]]'', with tentacles.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* (review needed)

==Synopsis==

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A sailor on shore leave at a sea-side town becomes infatuated with a mysterious dark-haired woman who plays a mermaid in the local carnival, and soon begins to believe she might actually be a real sea monster which kills when the moon is full....
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* TO DO
* race: [[Deep One]]

===Keeper Notes===



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 * Review by Mitch Lovell at The Video Vacuum (3 Stars) ([https://thevideovacuum.livejournal.com/609776.html link]) - "Being someone who grew up in an ocean resort, I have to say that Harrington captured the atmosphere in Night Tide perfectly. ...there’s ... enough to love about this movie to make it recommended."
 * Review by C. H. Newell at Father, Son, Holy Gore (4 stars) ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=908 link]) - "''Night Tide'', at its heart, is a tale of what it is to love, in all its glory and its terror, neither mutually exclusive from the other. And this honesty makes Harrington’s feature a near masterpiece in storytelling."
-* Review by Dennis Schwartz at Ozus world Movie Reivews (A-) ([http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/nighttide.htm link]) - "It borrows its title from Poe and its moody filming style from Kenneth Anger and has the dreamy look of a Val Lewton horror pic. "
+* Review by Dennis Schwartz at Ozus world Movie Reivews (A-) ([https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/nighttide/ link]) - "It borrows its title from Poe and its moody filming style from Kenneth Anger and has the dreamy look of a Val Lewton horror pic. "
 ==Synopsis==

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 * View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6-ZcVzzIQ link])
 * View Film: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5z3IojgBZ8 link])
-* IMDb: ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055230/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 link])
+* IMDb: ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055230/ link])
 ==Ratings==

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 * Review at Breakfast in the Ruins ([http://breakfastintheruins.blogspot.com/2011/05/night-tide-curtis-harrington-1961.html?zx=67cea204d5869671 link]) - "If one thing denies ‘''Night Tide''’ it’s richly deserved ‘cult classic’ status though, it is probably the ending. After the slow-burning dream-feel of the rest of the picture, the conclusion seems perfunctory and stupid on first viewing, giving every indication of a crass, producer-enforced happy ending that fails to even honour the basic Weird Tales convention that demands a naive protagonist be darkly changed by his or her uncanny experience."
 * Review by Graeme Clark at The Spinning Image ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=908 link]) - "While the solution to what is really going on is perfectly reasonable, but an anticlimax, Harrington wisely lets a few enigmas remain..."
 * Review by Roderick Heath at This Island Rod ([http://thisislandrod.blogspot.com/2010/09/night-tide-1961.html link]) - " In many regards it’s barely a horror movie at all, but more of a portrait in eerie disquiet and forlorn romanticism, but Harrington constructs that mood with a deft hand..."