

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water - you can't get to it.”
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
Directed by Jeffrey Bloom, Sidney Beckerman
User score
85 votes
Released
September 1, 1980
1h 32m
English
Budget → Revenue
$2M → —

David Huffman
Harry Caulder

Marianna Hill
Catherine Hutton

Burt Young
Sergeant Royko

John Saxon
Captain Pearson

Otis Young
Lieutenant Piantadosi

Stefan Gierasch
Dr. Dimitrios

Darrell Fetty
Hoagy

Lynne Marta
Jo

Eleanor Zee
Mrs. Selden
Lena Pousette
Marie

Pamela McMyler
Mrs. Hench

Ian Abercrombie
Man in Mayor's Office

Mary Jo Catlett
Harriett Crabbe

Harriet Medin
Ruth Hutton

Laura Burkett
Girl in Sand
Mickey Fox
Moose
Marleta Giles
Girlfriend
Jacqueline Randall
2nd Girl
Don Barlow
1st Boy

Julie Dolan
Karen