Some large object has been sighted in the water off San Francisco. Turns out it's a giant radioactive (!!!) octopus. It's up to Commander Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey from the classic "The Thing from Another World"), sexy Prof. Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue) and no nonsense Dr. John Carter (Donald Curtis) joining forces to battle it.
This is only worth seeing for the cool stop motion giant octopus attacking ships, destroying the Golden Gate Bridge and laying waste to a large portion of the San Francisco Bay area. Sure the effects are primitive but there's something so fun about watching this. Give me stop motion animation any day over the too perfect CGI we have now! The narration gives it a documentary feel and some of the acting and dialogue isn't bad. Also the obligatory romance between Mathews and Joyce is actually kind of funny (in a good way) and the sexual politics here are quite interesting. Still it does get pretty dull until the final show down with the monster. Worth watching just for the stop motion animation. I give it a 5.
This is only worth seeing for the cool stop motion giant octopus attacking ships, destroying the Golden Gate Bridge and laying waste to a large portion of the San Francisco Bay area. Sure the effects are primitive but there's something so fun about watching this. Give me stop motion animation any day over the too perfect CGI we have now! The narration gives it a documentary feel and some of the acting and dialogue isn't bad. Also the obligatory romance between Mathews and Joyce is actually kind of funny (in a good way) and the sexual politics here are quite interesting. Still it does get pretty dull until the final show down with the monster. Worth watching just for the stop motion animation. I give it a 5.