The Bermuda Triangle

1978 Directed by René Cardona Jr.

What strange forces are at work here ?

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray near the famed Bermuda Triangle, and mysterious things start happening.

John Huston Andrés García Hugo Stiglitz Gloria Guida Marina Vlady Claudine Auger René Cardona III Carlos East Mike Moroff Nailea Norvind Miguel Ángel Fuentes

Alternative Titles

El triángulo de las Bermudas, SOS-SOS-SOS Bermuda-Dreieck, El triángulo diabólico de las Bermudas, Le mystère du triangle des Bermudes, Devil's Triangle of Bermuda

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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.…
Review by Ian West ★★★ 4

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 Bermuda Triangle jam from the director of killer shark movie Tintorera... sure, it runs about 25 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 Monday after movie.
Plus, Hugo Stiglitz and John Huston?!?!
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…
Review by RetroMovieNerd ★★★

The Bermuda Triangle is a Mexican/Italian co-production directed by none other than René Cardona Jr, that prolific director of at least one hundred films, some of them even good. Here he tackles one of the more bizarre unsolved mysteries that everyone was fascinated by in the 1970s: the Bermuda Triangle, duh.
The story involves the Marvin clan, led by patriarch Edward (John Huston), as they sail out to sea in search of the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis. They're headed straight for the Bermuda Triangle, and the story throws in a couple of scenes of pilots who disappear into thin air. This pads the 112-minute runtime, and I didn't think we necessarily needed to see the Triangle in…
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…
Review by Countess Anya Sanguina ★★½

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This movie is just a little too long, it tries to lose me a few times and I find myself struggling to pay attention. Overall its not too bad of a creepy aquatic horror movie but those dull long moments is what hurts it.
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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…
Review by Lencho of the Apes ★★★

Cardona Jr. right at the center of his comfort zone -- high-concept premise that's easy to presell AND it's set on the ocean!
"The triangle" here becomes an undeniably eerie liminal zone on the borders of an afterlife, complete with a psychopomp (the spooky doll, imbued with resonances and symbolic importance like no other spooky doll I've ever seen) whose desire to guide souls to the next world isn't exactly an innocent one.
Better than it could have been, but I regret the vague resolution given to some plot points in the final scene: I wish whatever RC had intended had been spelled out more explicitly.
Review by JoshUnderwood ★★½

This was 30 minutes too long.
Capt. Hugo Stiglitz is always a joy. You also get some solid creepy doll stuff and a shark fight....

30 minutes too long! But still worth a watch.
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.
Review by Minion Max ★★

The Bermuda Triangle is an odd Italian mystery film that can't decide if it's a killer doll slasher, a monster movie, or a ghost story, but it is somehow strangely captivating even though it's completely inane and nothing ever happens.
Dat ending tho.
Review by Count Rickula Sarcophagus ★★½

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Review by Countess Anya Sanguina ★★½

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This movie is just a little too long, it tries to lose me a few times and I find myself struggling to pay attention. Overall its not too bad of a creepy aquatic horror movie but those dull long moments is what hurts it.
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Review by Count Rickula Sarcophagus ★★½

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"Anybody wanna see my dinghy and maybe this here raft."
"Captain Galifianakis, please!"
Review by mrdrenzaria ★

Some of the worst dubbing I have ever heard.
Review by Joe Campbell ★★½

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray near the famed Bermuda Triangle, and mysterious things start happening.
I mean...I can't really expand on that synopsis that much. That's both part of the appeal and part of the frustration of this odd little Mexican/Italian spooky mystery movie.
The central threat is so nebulous. The radio cuts out...pillars fall on divers underwater...birds attack a girl and end up decapitated...there's a creepy doll that may be bloodthirsty...
It's a string of happenings surrounding a single location with little excuse for effects, so there's no reason for the filmmakers to expend budget. It's almost two hours of watching people on a boat bicker and die off…
Review by Cody Ussery ★★

Wow, I definitely didn't go into a movie called The Bermuda Triangle expecting it to turn into a killer doll/creepy kid movie, but here we are. Kind of a bummer. I did like the blues in this movie. Very blue water whether on the boat or scuba diving in it. But, did they have to kill like three sharks during the underwater sequences? That really didn't add anything to this so-so '70s Mexican/Italian b-movie.
Review by Torbjørn Grav ★★

Totally bonkers and way too long! All the underwater scenes take forever, but the storm sequence is effective. All the dialogue is delivered in the most deadpan way possible. Still, it has some very good kills and probably the creepiest possessed demon-doll ever!
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.…
Review by Brodie_Bumshine ★★

You could replace the actors in this movie with mannequins with machine generated voices and nothing would be different. Also for some reason a little boys voice had been ADRed by a woman who is in at least her 40s.
Review by XibalbaBruja ★

The only thing that makes this a horror movie is how horrifyingly boring it is.
also, super racist
Review by Nye3 ★★★

I was expecting this to be suspenseful, and tragic.
It was but what was tragic was the voice acting. This was a spanish language film dubbed in English. It was so distracting and I couldn't help but laugh.
Review by Rodrigo Alvarado ★★½

Long ass movie, man. Way too long.
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.