Tentacles (film)
| Tentacles | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Oliver Hellman |
| Produced by | Ovidio G. Assonitis Enzo Doria |
| Written by | Steven W. Carabatsos Tito Carpi Jerome Max Sonia Molteni |
| Starring | John Huston Shelley Winters Bo Hopkins Henry Fonda |
| Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
| Cinematography | Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli |
| Editing by | Angelo Curi |
| Studio | American International Pictures Esse Ci Cinematografica Samuel Z. Arkoff |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 25 February 1977 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Italy United States |
| Language | English |
Tentacles is a 1977 Italian-American horror film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring John Huston and Shelley Winters.
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[edit] Plot
The tourist spot Ocean Beach has come under attack by a giant octopus, which captures human swimmers and picks clean the skeletons of flesh and bone marrow. The attacks, which gradually increase in number as time passes, threaten to scare away the 10,000 tourists who visit Ocean Beach each summer.
The characters determine that the excavation of an underwater tunnel has caused the giant octopus to rampage; the company, owned by Mr. Whitehead (Henry Fonda), has been using radio signals that have been "above regulated levels", and these have somehow enraged the octopus and caused it to attack human beings.
In the end, the Octopus is killed by the killer whales when the main character goes out to sea in a sailing yacht, with the killer whales in tow.
[edit] Cast
- John Huston as Ned Turner
- Shelley Winters as Tillie Turner
- Bo Hopkins as Will Gleason
- Henry Fonda as Mr. Whitehead, President of Trojan Construction
- Delia Boccardo as Vicky Gleason
- Cesare Danova as John Corey
- Alan Boyd as Mike
- Sherry Buchanan as Judy
- Franco Diogene as Chuck
- Marc Fiorini as Don
- Helena Mäkelä as Jane's Mother
- Claude Akins as Sheriff Robards
- Alessandro Poggi
- Roberto Poggi
- Giancarlo Nacinelli
- Consolato Marciano
- Philip Dallas
- Leonard Lightfoot
- John White
- William Van Raaphorst
- Joanne Van Raaphorst
- Patrick Mulvihill
- Janet Myers
- Kristin M. Brekke
- Janet Raycraft
- Kenneth Lundeen
- Rita Real
- Alan Scharf
- Ross Gordon
- Ron Shapiro
- Joseph Johnson
- George Montage as Deputy Jacobson
[edit] Production
The film was produced to capitalise on the success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.[1]
[edit] Release
It was released theatrically in the United States by American International Pictures on 15 June 1977.
The film was released on DVD by MGM in 2005 as part of their Midnite Movies series. The disc was a double feature release, pairing the film alongside Empire of the Ants.
[edit] References
[edit] Remake
Monster a similar film produced by The Asylum in 2008
[edit] External links
- Tentacles at the Internet Movie Database
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