Heartbreak and horror: eight of the best subversive beach scenes

Forget the Beach Boys, the most memorable depictions of the beach are strange and unsettling. Our writers head to the shore’s dark sideThe soft, sandy beaches that receive star billing in Baywatch, the songs of the Beach Boys and Harry Styles’s incandescently smug Watermelon Sugar video are as misleading as they are idyllic. Since Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr had their iconic beach-side bunk-up in 1953’s From Here to Eternity, one of the most familiar themes in pop culture i