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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop 
NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE SAND – Speaking of seventies Brit horror... 'Neither The Sea Nor The Sand' features Susan Hampshire as a lonely woman washed up on Jersey after a failed marriage. She meets enigmatic islander Hugh, and the pair go for may soul searching walks against a backdrop of bleak island terrain. Things get more tangibly 'horror' when Hugh dies suddenly, only to return as an inert, blank faced zombie man. The two head for a romantically doomed conclusion beneath the waves. 'Neither The Sea Nor The Sand' will certainly not be coveted by anyone looking for hardcore sex and violence. It's a quiet film, and tends to undermine itself through a lack of incident as much as it establishes itself through its densely layered atmosphere. The island locations are all used really effectively, and do manage to conjure that sense of windswept, soulful bleakness we tend to encounter when faced with endless wilderness... this the spiritual tone of NTSNS, and is exploited well in the second half of the movie, when Hugh 'comes back' and the whole sense of the nothingness all around starts to feel claustrophobic as the Hampshire character's world collapses in on itself. All well and good, but I can't deny that the film is a bit of a chore to sit through for the first forty five minutes, nice atmos or no. The music is all over the place too, ranging from cool radiophonic rattlings to awful seventies Euro-la-la-la. All told, 'Neither The Sea Nor The Sand' is a mildy unsettling curio from bygone times, one which I can only really recommend to those whose horror glands are stoked by endless shots of mud flats and waves crashing against ancient rocks.
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I've only seen it once and couldn't really decide if i liked it. Made me think of an episode of
Country File if directed by Jean Rollin.