Satan's Triangle is a made-for-TV horror/thriller that takes the best part of its 74 minute run-time going nowhere (much like the yacht on which it is set), before throwing in a supernatural twist ending that makes it feel like an extended episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
'70s hunk Doug McClure plays Haig, a US Coast Guard who investigates a yacht adrift in the mysterious area known as Satan's Triangle. After finding three dead bodies, Haig finally locates a survivor, Eva (Kim Novak), but as they are being winched onto the chopper by pilot Pagnolini (Michael Conrad), the cable snaps and they are ditched into the ocean. Dragging themselves back to the yacht, the pair must wait while Pagnolini goes for help; in the meantime, Eva recounts the events leading up to the deaths of her boat-mates.
Despite two fine performers in the lead roles, Satan's Triangle never really builds up a decent rate of knots, and is awash with dull scenes of chit-chat that tend to drag. The creepy payoff is pretty neat, and no doubt affected many a young viewer back in the day (I suspect that the movie's biggest fans are the ones who, as children, caught it on TV when originally aired), but as a middle-aged first-time viewer I can't say that I'll be losing much sleep over this one.
'70s hunk Doug McClure plays Haig, a US Coast Guard who investigates a yacht adrift in the mysterious area known as Satan's Triangle. After finding three dead bodies, Haig finally locates a survivor, Eva (Kim Novak), but as they are being winched onto the chopper by pilot Pagnolini (Michael Conrad), the cable snaps and they are ditched into the ocean. Dragging themselves back to the yacht, the pair must wait while Pagnolini goes for help; in the meantime, Eva recounts the events leading up to the deaths of her boat-mates.
Despite two fine performers in the lead roles, Satan's Triangle never really builds up a decent rate of knots, and is awash with dull scenes of chit-chat that tend to drag. The creepy payoff is pretty neat, and no doubt affected many a young viewer back in the day (I suspect that the movie's biggest fans are the ones who, as children, caught it on TV when originally aired), but as a middle-aged first-time viewer I can't say that I'll be losing much sleep over this one.