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  Review by Slig001 ★★

  This film by René Cardona Jr is a lesson in making a high concept movie with no focus whatsoever. As the title suggests, the film centres on the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. We follow a boat that strays into the area whilst in search of the lost city of Atlantis. The film is almost two hours long and spends most of this time beating around the bush and meandering around the central plot idea. The pace is very slow and there's little of interest in the main narrative to really grasp on to. There's several detours that don't really go anywhere - chief among them being the whole concept with the doll found in the middle of the water.…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★½ 5

  Every cabin aboard the ship has a picture of a sea monster destroying a vessel, plus there’s a miserable guy who kinda looks like Eric Roberts that spends all his time POUNDING down glasses of J&B like a maniac and a little girl who gets possessed by a demonic doll that bites out the throats of birds.

  Cool Mexican/Italian co-production from Cardona Jr. kinda feels like it runs 20 minutes too long but there’s some solid deaths, a great score, a stacked cast, and enough whacky stuff here to keep you occupied between the pacing lulls. Also, I’m not 100% sure but the little girl sounds like she may have been dubbed by the infamous ’Bob’ which is always a plus for me (bob rules you jabroni’s) so this has all the ingredients for a fun hazy afternoon movie.

  Plus, Hugo Stiglitz and John Huston?!?!

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½ 5

  This could've easily cut 20 minutes of its runtime, but René Cardona Jr.'s The Bermuda Triangle is still a fun so-bad-it's-entertaining supernatural thriller worthy of your time. The real shark impalements sucked though, but it is very likely that it was stock footage reused from another Cardona Jr. movie.

  Fun times watching this with Michelle.

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  Review by Blair Russell ★★★ 2

  The Bermuda Triangle myth was just 70's poppycock based off of conjecture, half-truths and outright fibs... even then, I was entertained by this movie. The lore behind the triangle is natural for a horror movie between all the alleged disappearances, sinking planes/ships, weird events-some of which is referenced here. Earlier in the year I purchased The Cardona Collection (as in Rene, Jr.) from Vinegar Syndrome yet because I am me it's just now that I cracked into it. I was hoping for fun schlock and this it was, despite some slow stretches for an almost two hour movie. As it's Cardona, of course Hugo Stiglitz has a prominent role.

  A ship is chartered so some people (including John Huston, the…

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  Review by Marna Larsen ★★★★★ 2

  Guess I quit my Fandor subscription a bit too early...well, I can probably replace Shudder with something, at least for a little while and technically, this is cheaper.

  So many great outfits in this...mostly gingham and sailboat related, making me wish they made adult children's fashions that were less...uh...I guess obvious than Lolita? I mean, I don't necessarily want a pinafore, just maybe a nautical themed gingham 70s sundress or something. Like, I guess Batsheva is sort of almost that, but there is absolutely no way I can spend five hundred dollars on a dress.

  I would be guaranteeing something really dreadful happen to me 'she immediately locked herself indoors, and there was no job to go back to, so…

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  Review by The Great Owl ★★★★ 2

  The mystique of the “Bermuda Triangle” has diminished in recent decades, in light of advanced satellite weather tracking and improved scientific research technology. In fact, the shipwrecked remains of the SS Cotopaxi, which went missing in the Triangle in 1925, were finally located in early 2020. I take this as a sign that Mother Nature is so angry with humans in present day that she is now giving back stuff that she stole from us, sort of like an ex-girlfriend who is returning all of the CDs and Blu-rays that she took from your place. The relationship between Earth and humanity is officially over.

  Fortunately, the 1978 Mexican-Italian horror feature, The Bermuda Triangle, directed by Rene Cardona Jr. (Treasure of…

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  Review by Dennis Vehlen ★★★★

  A surprisingly suspenseful mystery chiller directed by the legendary René Cardona Jr. that deals with a ship getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle with strange forces all around.
  I actually really liked the whole weird vibe here - dysfunctional characters on board of an equally not functional ship stuck in a weird place full of things happening that can't be explained. We have a subplot about a creepy cursed doll that actually makes sense in the story and nicely pushes this more in 70s horror territory, as well as a killer bird and killer shark attack (both sadly end in real animal cruelty, but I have yet to see a René Cardona Jr. movie without any animal getting harmed) and…

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  Review by Geoffrey Broomer 1

  Mexican / Italian production about a ship that gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Are they contending with sea monsters or aliens? I was delighted to discover this is actually a killer doll movie. As a rule, I'm not big on those... except when I'm not expecting them. Bravo!

  A robust cast is headed by John Huston as the head of a family on vacation (other members include Cannes Best Actress 1963 Marina Vlady, Italian Sex Comedy star Gloria Guida, and Bond girl Claudine Auger). Even the child who stands in for some super close-ups of the doll's face was later nominated for an Ariel. The one upside to the film's half an hour too long running time is that…

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  Review by Mark Costello ★★

  Q: How on earth did prolific Mexican director Rene Cardona Jr (he of Tintorera fame) make a decent Bermuda Triangle movie on this budget?

  A: He didn't. He made a fucking hilariously awful one that could have been a cult classic for the ages except for two massive errors in judgement.......

  Following the excellent model of the Italian genre thieves of the time, he decided to not pick a couple of plot strands for the film, he stuffed them all in - disappearing fighter squadrons, mysterious hurricanes, searches for the lost city of Atlantis, underwater earthquakes, lots of people listening to really bad voice acting on radios, sharks, a possessed doll and the most ripe melodrama this side of soap…

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  Review by Jeremy Milks ★★★

  Strangely entertaining and definitely bloated to an almost unforgivable 2 hour running time. Demonic dolls, rabid parakeets, Hugo Stiglitz in a sailors cap smoking a pipe, the lost city of Atlantis which consists of six styrofoam pillars, an elderly and frail John Huston scuba diving with sharks, and lines like “Poor Simon. He fell on a bottle and cut his throat”. Spoiler: that’s not how he got his throat cut.

  
  I like to think of it as The Love Boat meets Cathy’s Curse.

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  Review by Jamie ★★★ 9

  You know for PG it had some good deaths and was a interesting watch. The part that confused me abit is did everything happen because of the triangle or was it the doll that cursed them

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  Review by maskull ★★★½

  Daily Horror Hunt 20 – February Horror 2020 Day 19. A movie featuring an actor/actress who passed away in 2019. (Claudine Auger December 19th, she was 78).

  I enjoy René Cardona Jr.'s movies. The man knew how to make a good disaster movie, and he knew how to put sharks in his movies, and he even could manage to make long stretches of not much happening interesting...or at least I feel comfortable watching them. Of course, in this movie, it helps that even when people aren't being...attacked?....by the Bermuda Triangle (which is most of the movie), there's a creepy kid/doll combo spouting that people are going to die, there's people going diving, seeing sharks (and killing them booooo!!!!) and having…