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Tentacles is a 1977 Italian-American horror film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring John Huston and Shelley Winters.

Tentacles is about a flesh-eating giant octopus. Released in the United States by American International Pictures, the film was produced to capitalise on the success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.

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, threatens 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 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.

Cast

• John Huston .... Ned Turner
• Shelley Winters .... Tillie Turner
• Bo Hopkins .... Will Gleason
• Henry Fonda .... Mr. Whitehead, President of Trojan Construction
• Delia Boccardo .... Vicky Gleason
• Cesare Danova .... John Corey
• Alan Boyd .... Mike

See also

• Monster - A similar film produced by The Asylum in 2008

External links

• Tentacles at the Internet Movie Database

• Tentacles at the MGM Archive