Tentacles! With Shelley Winters and John Huston!
Jeff VanderMeer • March 22nd, 2010 @ 5:12 pm • Movie Reviews
Yesterday, while doing our taxes, we followed up Pandorum, Dune, Moon, and Alien with a movie on cable…Tentacles. From 1977, clear rip-off of Jaws.
I have a feeling that everyone else already knows about this D-movie, but we were just aghast, watching winters, Huston, and others do their best impression of stink-o-rama. In one scene a killer whale trainer embarks on a long monologue aimed at convincing the whale to fight the killer giant octopus.
Here’s more of it, for masochists…
March 22, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I saw that in the theater in its original release on one of those days when I went from screen to screen at the multiplex. I think it may have actually improved with age.
March 22, 2010 at 9:21 pm
oh
god
March 22, 2010 at 9:51 pm
lol
March 23, 2010 at 3:19 am
and the octopus growls!
March 23, 2010 at 9:53 am
How did I not know about this?
March 23, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I was born in 1977. That might explain a lot. But, in all seriousness, I agree with Matt. How did I not know about this?
And taxes? Ugh! Doing mine today. All I have to say is: Seven zip-loc bags and two shoeboxes full of receipts. Where’s my belt and a good joist?
March 23, 2010 at 2:06 pm
You do know that in Florida you can claim state sales tax for every purchase? Pain in the ass, but probably worth it.
March 24, 2010 at 2:46 am
The music in the second clip is extremely funky :-)
March 24, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Looks to be almost as great as ‘Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus’
March 25, 2010 at 1:42 am
Re: Tentacles, you’ve probably already seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2csnVNai-o