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A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.Although the film was intended to cash in on the success of "Jaws", "Tentacles" also bears numerous resemblances to the 1955 science fiction horror film "It Came from Beneath the Sea". The "Jaws" connection is clear, with the popular seaside community during a certain patriotic festival. But there is that added factor of corporate wrongdoing.The film's score was done by Italian composer Stelvio Cipriani, who scored the similarly Jaws-inspired films "The Great Alligator" and "Piranha II: The Spawning" around the same time. Cipriani's score is one of the most memorable parts of the film, along with Shelley Winters' hats. What is up with her sombrero? The acting is choppy, with only the big name actors even trying, making them seem out of place when compared to everyone else.

Sometimes you get a movie that is awful. So awful that you have a sense of dread while watching it. But, on rare occasions, an average movie-goer has at least one or two or maybe three movies that qualified as guilty pleasures. As for myself, I, too, have that syndrome. I don't know if other movie-goers have this syndrome or suffer from this scenario, but it has happen to me.And, in the case of Tentacles, this may be one of them.The story takes place on a sea resort in California called "Ocean Beach". Ocean Beach is starting see some major problems. Tourists are beginning to disappear one by one. Ned Turner, (John Huston), the local everyday man and news reporter, suspects that there's something sinister happening on his sea resort. He appointed the deputy sheriff, (Claude Akins),that a octopus is picking off the tourists, turning the beach into a snack shop. Enter the biologist, (Bo Hopkins), who explains to Turner that there is a very angry octopus eating up the townsfolk. Meanwhile, Turner's wife, (Shelly Winters), takes her children out on a sailboat and one of them volunteers to participate in the town's sailboat race. When Hopkins' girlfriend is killed by the monster and one of Winters' children's friends gets eaten by the beast, it's up to Hopkins to find the octopus and kill it. To do this, he must enlisted the help of two killer whales that can find octopus and kill it. While that is going on, the local oil tycoon, (Henry Fonda), gets blamed for waking up the angry beast.Yes, I know Tentacles is an awful movie. Yes, this is one of those ensemble cast movies or all-star movies that took its course during the 1970's. But, you got to admit that this movie is ridiculous to watch even if you hate it. I've always say that in implausible films that you don't ask any questions during the viewing of the movie. Well, I ignored answering some of the obvious questions that this movie asks. Sometimes you got to accept things for what they are. In this movie, all high expectations go right out the window for me.Where do I begin to say which parts I like? Well, I'll begin with the most stupidest. And that is, the cast of some of the most talented actors and actresses that are included in this movie are probably their money's worth. I got a feeling that Huston, Fonda, Winters, Akins and especially Hopkins, got their money's worth for making Tentacles. But, I will say that I enjoyed their performances even if they were on the big screen trying to impress in any which way possible. As for the octopus, it's shoddy. Yet, I have to admit that I enjoyed both the octopus and the two killer whales. Of course, it's is simply a bad rip-off of Jaws and Orca. In fact, if I had to rank Tentacles or Orca as being the best or worst rip-off of Jaws, I would have to say that Tentacles ranks high and below Orca, even I enjoy less of Orca.Tentacles is a stupid movie and goofy at the same time, but it's quite terrifying for a second up until the final confrontation between the octopus and the two killer whales. Now that I got that out of the way, I can say now that I just reveal one of my guilty pleasures. ★★★ 3 stars.

This is a film about a giant octopus that eats a lot of people.It boasts a lot of huge stars. Henry Fonda heads the crew of Winters, Akins, Huston, and Hopkins.Henry Fonda appeared in some of the greatest films ever, then made the mistake of getting into the lowest point of movie making, the spaghetti Western. While this review is written in 2012, there are still some conservatives who won't let go of their unexplainable love for spaghetti Westerns. Leone and others destroyed film making for decades. 50 years from now, in 2062, a new breed will have no clue why there was any love for the spaghetti crap. There is no inspiration, no reality, cutout stereotypes.For those people of 2062 and later, an explanation is needed. I lived those years in the seventies. During those years, "hatred" was a theme latched onto as being "cool" by the drug addicts. They heralded these movies, because they were control freaks, and bred a generation of control freaks.Fonda teams with another Italian in an effort to amend for the sordid spaghetti garbage. No doubt, the crack-heads who praise the control freak Leone movies will vote this review down. They abound on IMDb in the early 21st century. Proof is here now in the many "reviews" for his film, all mindless pans for no cause, obviously by a few posters who use many fake user names. It is obvious in the style and complete agreement of their posts. Sad to say, they don't even realize how obvious they are, in using fake user names to vote down an excellent film to under 4/10.But then again, this is not a "control freak" movie. It doesn't praise control freaks, nor put men into the Republican category of gods, demigods, and cannon fodder.One poor thing about the film, which turns people off, is the soundtrack and film score. The sound clashes horribly. This would have easily been a 9/10 or a 10/10 if they remade the sound effects and soundtrack.Still, we get an excellent story. What turns the control freaks off first is that this film is no respecter of persons. It is craftily written. You don't escape death by being a star or a "cool" person, nor do you get eaten just for being a creep.The domino of death plays no favorites here. The cards lie where they are dealt, with no stacking of the deck. No one can out-tough or outwit or out-cute the giant creature. He eats whomever is in his way.That's what makes this film work. It is written with that in mind. It makes for much tragedy, and much pathos. There are many tragic scenes, many scenes that are sad, and may make you cry, but they are the story. Not everyone is killed. Still, there is a high body count.A lot makes this film work. Most of the best comes from the lesser known actors. In fact, the higher up the fame scale an actor is, the more "formula" his scenes tend to be here. It is the "supporting" actor who takes the show here. And that works, because we know land loving old people who stay out of harm's way, Fonda, Huston, Winters, wouldn't be in any realistic danger in a credible script, and this is a credible script. They are there for the reactions to the plight of the young who love the water.Another great move is the sheriff, played by Akins, has a more believable role in the proceedings than in JAWS. Here, he is another land lover. The course of events at sea are done by those who are experts at sea. This helps to actually make this a superior film to JAWS.There are many iconoclastic scenes here that also make the control freaks hate it. Again, this is for the people of 2062, who will be at a loss as to the hate this film receives in 2012. It is the small clique of IMDb control freaks, whom I described, that make it seem so, with multiple user names and multiple reviews. What seems to be 100 people is really just 5 or 6. Yes, they are insane, but the internet of this era is a haven for the insane.For 1977, the choice of victims is totally iconoclastic. And for IMDb. We have many Nazis on IMDb, who will pan any action film that doesn't kill a lot of women with dark hair, which makes it suffer it the "ratings" with the many neo nazi posters of IMDb. Strange, yes, but if the results of 2012 are available in 2062, you will see undeniable proof of this. I don't think the victims were "chosen" as much as just "in the wrong place at the wrong time" for the sequence of events.The characters actually are very well written, even the "formula" characters which are given to the big name stars. The emotion is very stunning here, too. The script is probably the best of any giant sea beast film after about 1960, and that includes some great scripts like THE BEAST and JAWS.What makes this film as good as it is? I have described what makes it "good", but now as to what makes it "exceptional".It is the supporting characters. I've always found supporting characters to be what intrigues me the most. And there is good reason for that. We know about how it will go for the two or three main characters, although sometimes there is a surprise. It is the theatrics and drama that plays out among the underlings that make a movie a film, that make a drama exceptional. This is an exceptional film.

I'm used to Samuel Z. Arkhoff production being bad, low-budget, but usually bad and low budget in a good way. This, however, was not. It was just bad, as another review said, 3 big stars, all in supporting roles, and not a character to care about among the entire cast. I'm used to, and revel in, bad special effects, but this barely had effects, special or otherwise. The plot was virtually non-existent, but I think my favorite part was when they were discussing what to do, with the marine biologist, they switch back and forth between calling the thing and octopus and a squid. With the stars that were in it, it did have potential, not exactly sure what went wrong, but if you have an hour and a half to waste, listen to Yanni, it'll be most entertaining. By the way, I hate Yanni.