Night Tide

Directed by Curtis Harrington | 84 minutes | 15+

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TEMPTRESS FROM THE SEA... LOVING… KILLING!

Before he became known for his performances as disturbed, unnerving outsiders, Dennis Hopper landed his first leading role in Curtis Harrington’s atmospheric, fantastical thriller Night Tide. Hopper is bashfully charming as a young seaman, Johnny, who falls for a mysterious woman who may or may not be a mermaid (Linda Lawson). As fantasy bleeds into nightmare, warping the dreamy haze of romance, darkness laps at Johnny’s feet; there’s a peculiar woman dressed in black, the distorted spectacle of beachside attractions, and the destructive call of the ocean.

Here, Harrington—a queer experimental filmmaker and Kenneth Anger collaborator—delves into the shadowy corners of both Santa Monica’s beachside amusements and the yearning mind. With a title borrowed from an Edgar Allen Poe poem and a curious allegory for the suppression of female sexuality at its centre, Night Tide is a striking tale of romantic ruin.

“Night Tide is an absolute masterpiece [...] and, incredibly, one of the few films that actually was able to bring a fairy tale naturally onto the screen.” - Nicolas Winding Refn

Country: USA
Year: 1961
Language: ENGLISH