Night Tide (1961 film)

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
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Ratings

MPAA Ratings

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

Tentacle Ratings

A rough 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.

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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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