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Summary: Get Out Your Flame Thrower!
Review: This movie was a lot scarier when I first saw it as a kid in the 1970's. Giant tentacled sea monsters are always especially scary.This "mutated monster" movie wasn't nearly as scary as "Them". The plot is rather simple. The acting & script feel very "hammy" (they don't seem to take the monster nearly as seriously as they did in "Them"). The coolest part of the film is when the Army flame-throwers took on the octopus & drove it back into San Francisco harbour. Beware of the giant eye scene near the end. That'll send a chill up your spine!
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Summary: Ray himself found the movie lacking.....
Review: This was another movie where the budget was so small, Ray had to sacrifise the quality of the story for more cheaper production issues. The design of the creature was also limited, the budget being what it was, Ray only designed the octopus with six arms. and tried to maintain that the other two arms were underwater (Okay). They also never got permission to actually film in San Franciso, so they filmed all the out door scenes from the back of a bakery truck that drove all over the city and over the Golden Gate Bridge, the rest of the movie was shot either on other locations or on sound stages. As a result, this movie really was not much different then other B-movie monster pictures that were made at the time, and for Ray, to this day, he still maintains that the movie was not one of his better films.
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Summary: True 50's flick. What else is there?
Review: Typical formula---mysterious events, monster appears, struggle to find way to kill it, attack on city, it dies. The effects save this from total disaster.
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Summary: Boring!Boring!Boring!
Review: Whats so scary about a giant octopus
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Summary: Made Me Hungry
Review: When, toward the end, they fired the torpedo into the body of the massive octopus resting up against the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, the projectile appeared to plunge into a big wall of gray peanut butter. (Creamy smooth, not chunky.)
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Summary: There goes the bridge!
Review: You have to be patient with this one because it really does improve. The beginning has a submarine encountering something powerful and this serves at getting our interest. Then we have a long period where everyone is trying to figure out what has happened and the usual non-believers that end up holding things. Everything is presented very matter of fact instead of being dramatic and this tends to give the film a very dry, almost unexciting feel in the middle. Fortunately, the octupus comes to San Francisco and all hell breaks loose as the giant monster rips a gap in the golden gate bridge, terrorizes a freight yard and a giant clock. The story is not as good as say Earth vs. the flying saucers or Twenty million miles to earth, but the special effects are fantastic. Harryhausen has the creature's tentacles move in a slow, very deliberate manner that tends to really add realism to the monster's attack. So put this one in then stop it after about fifty minutes, then make your popcorn and go sit back down and enjoy the fantastic finale.
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