Linda Lawson, a singer and actress perhaps best known for her turn as a mysterious mermaid in the 1961 Dennis Hopper film Night Tide, has died. She was 86. Lawson died May 18 of natural causes at the ...

When you are a true movie geek some titles become a sort of Holy Grail. When I was a monster kid growing up in the 60’s I read Castle of Frankenstein magazine avidly (one of the greatest magazines ...

"Sensual ecstasy becomes supernatural terror!" screams one of the original taglines for Night Tide (1961), a description that belies the content of this moody B-movie curiosity. Audiences expecting a ...

The interplay of innocence and experience, good and evil, is fundamental to American mythology, and runs through much of US horror and mystery. Night Tide has sailor Johnny, in his pristine almost ...