Directed by prolific Mexican exploitation film-maker René Cardona Jr., The Bermuda Triangle is a dull supernatural thriller that attempts to cash in on the mysterious phenomenon supposedly responsible for the strange disappearance of numerous aircraft, boats and ships.Starring a slumming-it John Huston, Mexican B-movie actor Hugo Stiglitz, Bond girl Claudine Auger, and stunning blonde Euro-babe Gloria Guida, the film centres around a family pleasure cruise that experiences strange occurrences after the youngest daughter takes possession of a doll found floating in the sea. A mysterious fog-bank, a sudden storm, a sea-quake and a series of bizarre fatal accidents subsequently befall the occupants of the Black Whale III.Like the family's boat, the plot goes nowhere, adrift in a sea of half-baked ideas. Cardona is unable to inject any life into proceedings, and his cast can do little with the directionless script. It comes as no surprise that, with the stranded passengers and crew whittled down to a handful of survivors, Cardona Jr. wraps up his film with a dumb Twilight Zone-style twist that fails to provide any answers.3.5 out of 10, rounded down to 3 for the senseless harpooning of three sharks that were happily minding their own business.

I know I've watched some film about the mysterious and notorious titular area in my childhood but I can't, for the life of me, recall if this was the one - hence my considering it as a first viewing! The subject matter is handled in the low-brow fashion which prevailed during the last gasp of "Euro-Cult" - even to the point of ludicrously ripping off Mario Bava's KILL, BABY...KILL! (1966) in the figure of the sinister girl, with a devil-doll in tow, 'causing' the various deaths; the silly revelation at the finale, then, takes it into "Outward Bound" territory! The 'star' cast looks embarrassed (an absurdly over-age John Huston, above all, must have been hard-up for cash - though, in all probability, he was financing WISE BLOOD [1979], one of his least commercial films, during this time) tackling their respective stereotyped characters, which include a perennially soused ex-doctor and a scaredy-cat of a black chef (the kind that was already passé forty years previously)! Stelvio Cipriani's efficient score is utterly wasted on this drivel.

Reading the other comments I must say that I'm not surprised. I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't recognize one's right to like stinky films. I like some z grades myself, but this movie ain't one of 'em. I spend 15$ on this crap. John Huston is in it, but doesn't do much other that stand around and talk in that voice of his. its almost a relief when his character is eaten by sharks. The only reason I like Rene Cordona Jr.s films is the nudity and luridness: this film has neither, so I hated it. As for the Bermuda Triangle I know nothing new about it after watching this film, and I'm not afraid of it any more than before. To add insult to injury there's a black character that is dubbed in mushmouth. Truly horrible: a disappointment in exploitation and offensive to boot.

Okay, okay, so it may have something to do with the fact that I was about ten years old when I saw this movie, but to me it still remains the most traumatizing piece of cinematographically inflicted horror ever to cross my path.Even now, twenty years later, I still regard realistically shaped dolls with paranoid suspicion...Short summary of the plot: a dozen or so people are making a boat trip through the Bermuda Triangle. Among them a little girl, who to her delight finds a doll floating in the water. At her request the doll is rescued, so to speak, and then doom strikes and innocent ten year old Dutch boys who happen to be watching are scarred for life.A flock of birds attacks the girl, who defends herself by beating them off with the doll. Once they have fled, the crew finds dead birds on the deck, their heads bitten off. The doll has blood around her mouth. And, oh horror, she blinks.A crewman repairing the ship's helix is cut to pieces when the engine mysteriously is turned on.An underwater expedition to a sunken city ends in disaster when the buildings collapse on top of the divers.During a heavy storm, the crew and passengers see a ship passing by in the distance, sending morse signals that reveal it's a ship that has been missing for a hundred years.And so on, and so on.[END SPOILERS]So, maybe if I'd see it again today, it wouldn't hold up anymore to the critical eye of a 21st century adult. Who cares. The impression will last forever.