Blood Tide

Blood Tide
Theatrical poster
Directed byRichard Jefferies
Screenplay by
Produced byDonald Langdon
Nico Mastorakis
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Starring
CinematographyAris Stavrou
Edited byMichael Bloecher
Alberto Valenzuela
Music byShuki Levy
Jerry Mostly
Production
companies
Connaught International
Athon
Distributed by21st Century Film Corporation (U.S.)
Release date
Running time
87 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Greece
LanguageEnglish

Blood Tide is a 1982 British horror film directed by Richard Jefferies, and starring James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Lydia Cornell, Mary Louise Weller, Martin Kove, and Deborah Shelton. Its plot follows a young American couple visiting a Greek island where the husband's sister disappeared; they soon find that an ancient monster has been released, forcing the villagers to return to the practice of human sacrifice to appease it.

The film is also known as Bloodtide (in the US) and Demon Island (American TV title). It has been misconstrued as a public domain film and pirated by many distributors who copied it from DVDs. However, as per The Copyright Office, copyright is registered under Omega Entertainment, Inc. and the writer/producer of the film, Nico Mastorakis.

  1. ^ "Movies". New York Daily News. 24 September 1982. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Blood Time (Blu-ray). Arrow Video. 2020.