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| The Bermuda Depths |  | Director: Tom Kotani
Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Carl Weathers, Connie Sellecca, Burl Ives
Studio: Warner Brothers
Category: DVD
Buy New: $19.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 11,024
Format: NTSC, Color, Dolby, Full Screen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
UPC: 883316195086
EAN: 0883316195086
ASIN: B002LV1C0S
Release Date: November 11, 2009
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Product Description
What secret lurks 20,000 feet below the waves in the paranormal realm called The Bermuda Triangle? Thats the question a scientist (Burl Ives), his student (Carl Weathers) and a young man (Leigh McCloskey) haunted by nightmarish memories of his Bermuda childhood ask themselves. The answer involves a beauty (Connie Sellecca) who has sold her soul for eternal youth. And a giant sea turtle that leaves death in its wake. Eerie and hypnotic, The Bermuda Depths was produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr and Jules Bass (The Year Without a Santa Claus), who meld their imaginative fantasy style with the live-action horror genre.
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Beautiful, haunting and cool March 8, 2010
Rachel S. Robertson (Columbia, Missouri)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree wholeheartedly with the other positive reviewers here. I saw this movie on TV as a child, and it has stayed with me my entire life. I think the mysterious giant sea turtle was the part that affected me the most. Like another reviewer, I could not remember the title for years, but accidentally happened upon a rerun years later when I was in college. I got all excited, and got a few of my friends to watch it with me, but they didn't understand what I liked about it. They just kept harping about the low budget special affects. Sometimes you just have to be able to see past the effects.
Like the original Land of the Lost TV series, this movie is compelling, mysterious, and haunting. It was made by Rankin & Bass, who also made the animated version of The Hobbit, as well as The Last Unicorn. If you like those films, you'll understand the appeal of this one.
On A Par with Orca for they are the two saddest Horror Thrillers of the 70's in my opinion January 18, 2010
POD JAWS
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although i wasnt born in the 70's let alone being able to see this in the late 70's i can still feal the emotion everytime i hear that music and i am still haunted to this day
Plot- very cool, a man named Magnus heads back to the area where he used to live in to see if he could find out what had happend to his father, there he meets up with his fathers friends Eric (Carl Weathers), and Dr. Paulis (Burl Ives) who are studying over sized marine life (and to make a long story short they run into a massive turtle living in the bermuda triangle
Acting- it was actually quite decent acting, i have always loved Carl Weathers in Predator
Gore- nothing well except someone gets shot with a harpoon gun but thats it but thats ok, the seneary and atmosphere is just awesome!
Bottom Line- 5 out of 5 (I'm Speechless)
First on TV in 1978, this movie is a beautiful classic. December 29, 2009
M. DiBucci
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Bermuda Depths is a movie most appreciated by those of us who saw it first as children. If you watched The Bermuda Depths first in 1978, when it was a made-for-TV movie, you won't be disappointed with this DVD, since it is the best copy of this movie out there. Previously only available on garbled VHS tapes, this is the best DVD for people who signed the online petition for it to be published again.
It took me over ten years to remember the name of this movie, but I never gave up the search. I can't be sure what brings many people back to search for this movie, but I can list what sticks in my memory: the beautiful ocean and beach scenes; the opening sequence of music and underwater swimming; the mysterious love story between the main character and the mermaid-type woman; the sad fact that the two are lost to each other several times; the link between them and the giant sea turtle; and the haunting back-story of an ancient pact made by the woman requiring her to live forever in the ocean's depths.
To those of us who loved this movie as children, it is a charming revisit to childhood days, but as a note to those who never saw it: it is not a slick CGI presentation. This is a movie who's dramatic action scenes include obviously miniature boats shot in small pools of water, and a toy helicopter crash. In addition to quirky action scenes, it has a large portion of slow moving sequences with sparse dialogue. As children, when the attention span lags, diversions can be found until the movie gets interesting again, but for adults trying to watch the whole movie, it can be boring. Also, some of the actors seem to over-act to make the scanty dialogue interesting.
All that aside, I still recommend the movie to people who first saw it as children. If you think back and remember a movie with a beautiful dark-haired girl with green glowing eyes, or a giant turtle reminiscent of old Godzilla movies, you'll want to see this. When recalling childhood memories, often the important aspects stay with you and the less important fall away. This movie is a great example of that. I remembered the beautiful and mysterious music and images that haunt and intrigue, and I forgot the boring dialogue and hokey special affects. Maybe to children of the 70's, the special effects were great back then. If you buy this, enjoy watching a great memory from your past, and don't forget to look for the initials on the giant turtle at the end. If you never saw it before, try to appreciate what it does offer: beautiful, poetic, and haunting music and imagery courtesy of Rankin and Bass.
Rankin and Bass are also famous for the Rudolph Christmas special animated with puppets and many other specials like it. The Bermuda Depths is an interesting anomaly to most of their work. There are many books written in detail about the totality of their work, and I recommend reading them since it will introduce you to a landslide of charming stories and DVD's. Enjoy!
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