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Night Tide

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Night Tide	label	Night Tide
Night Tide	page	NightTide
Night Tide	comment	Night Tide is a 1961 romantic-horror film written and directed by Curtis Harrington, a pioneer of New Queer Cinema, starring Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson and Gavin Muir. It features black and white cinematography by Vilis Lapenieks and an uncredited Floyd Crosby (High Noon). A jazz music score by was provided by David Raksin (Laura).The film follows Johnny Drake, a young sailor on shore leave who becomes enamored with a mysterious woman working at a sideshow on the Santa Monica Pier. He soon comes to suspect the woman, Mora, may be a mermaid who lures her lovers to a watery grave under the light of the full moon.The film is notable as Hopper's first lead role, and has gained favor over the years as a surreal, off-beat Cult Classic.The film was restored by and is a favorite of director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Night Tide / int_103827fc	type	Beach Kiss
Night Tide / int_103827fc	comment	Beach Kiss: Mora and Johnny share a few.
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Night Tide / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Night Tide / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Potentially Mora.
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Night Tide / int_22e6c07e	type	Pervert Dad
Night Tide / int_22e6c07e	comment	Pervert Dad: Mora's adoptive father/Godfather, Capt. Samuel Murdock, seems to have less than righteous intentions.
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Night Tide / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Night Tide / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: Potentially because of when it was released and story expectations of the public, the film is wrapped up more neatly than seems likely.
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Night Tide / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Night Tide / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The film's title is a allusion to a line from the Edgar Allan Poe poem "Annabelle Lee."
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Night Tide / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Night Tide / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The film is a bonafide piece of 60s counter-culture, and is set in the Venice Beach area of California, known for its hippies.
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Night Tide / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Night Tide / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Mora finds herself in this position under the pier as the waves role in.
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Night Tide / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
Night Tide / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror: Whether you believe the film to be supernatural or not, most of the horror is derived from our main character's fragile psyches.
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Night Tide / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
Night Tide / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: A potential reading of the repressed sexuality our characters grapple with in the film, especially knowing that Curtis Harrington was an openly gay director.
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Night Tide / int_660d1f3e	type	Amusement Park of Doom
Night Tide / int_660d1f3e	comment	Amusement Park of Doom: The pier where Mora works is a toned down take on this trope.
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Night Tide / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Night Tide / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Captain Murdock is revealed to be a serial killer at the end, having killed all of Mora's previous boyfriends to keep her for himself.
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Night Tide / int_77cd56b3	type	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
Night Tide / int_77cd56b3	comment	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Both of our main characters seem to have this fear.
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Night Tide / int_7b7f0141	type	Tentacled Terror
Night Tide / int_7b7f0141	comment	Tentacled Terror: The octopus/squid creature that Johnny dreams about Mora turning into while they make love.
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Night Tide / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Night Tide / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Most of our characters, especially Mora and her self appointed godfather.
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Night Tide / int_8e3567ad	type	Menstrual Menace
Night Tide / int_8e3567ad	comment	Menstrual Menace: The film's marketing material and some mentions within the film itself seem to intimate that Mora kills with the cycle of the moon, an almost certain reference to a woman's menstrual cycle.
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Night Tide / int_9013aef6	type	Mask of Sanity
Night Tide / int_9013aef6	comment	Mask of Sanity: Mora wears one early in her relationship with Johnny, which begins to slip as their romance intensifies.
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Night Tide / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Night Tide / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Mora seems to have a reputation around town as one.
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Night Tide / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
Night Tide / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: One way to view the repressed desires of our main characters.
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Night Tide / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Night Tide / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The film is left ambiguous, since Captain Murdock denies working with the mysterious, Greek speaking old woman who served as a Harbinger of Impending Doom to Mora at the jazz club. A fan translation of what the old woman said reveals that it was "Soon you will meet your people, my love! Oh yes, very soon we will meet again!"
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Night Tide / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
Night Tide / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: It appears that Captain Murdock and the old woman have been gaslighting Mora into believing she is a murderous mermaid, to prevent her from leaving her abusive, incestuous adoptive father.
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Night Tide / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Night Tide / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: It seems to be the case for Johnny and Mora.
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Night Tide / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Night Tide / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Both our main characters are at least hinted at having one.
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