Quickly some researchers find a screaming baby octopus and put it in a bucket, remarking on how unusual it is. Like everything else in this production, Octaman is baffling. Alas, the pitiful creature is in nearly every scene, its extra arms flapping lifelessly as it staggers about. The narrator informs us of a scientist (Kerwin Mathews) who is aware that man is rapidly destroying himself and all our natural resources through the advent of underwater nuclear testing and pollution, and is involved in a series of experiments in rural areas of Latin America. 14 out of 15 found this helpful. I can't decide. And then he strikes the most awesome pose. And what was the point of giving the creature eyesight like an insect? Still worth owning.
I seriously wanted to like this movie for no other reason than the inane title and concept. A mutated octopus man comes out of the water to kill, find a women, kill some more, and cause havoc in the woods. Back in the review for another dismal outing, I Drink Your Blood, I revealed that one of the warning signs of a truly wretched flick is nudity in the first five minutes. Then you have definitely come to the right place!I wanted to bail out at the half way point, but stuck with it to see if it got worse. Eight "arms" of tentacled terror! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 5 star 32% 4 star 11% 3 star 27% 2 star 16% 1 star 14% Octaman. Looking it up here...nope. Octaman - Die Bestie aus der Tiefe (1971) Eine Kritik von DM (Bewertung des Films: 3 / 10) eingetragen am 07.09.2002, seitdem 1121 Mal gelesen.
As if that weren't enough, Octo then developes an odd sexual fixation on Pier Angeli ("Viva America! Octaman gives us not one, but two more signs: 1) the very first thing you see is a montage of stock footage , … Ok it's not the low budget that makes this one such a stinker. For all it's faults I sort of liked it, a lot like a 50's monster movie. by Kerwin Matthews. Run and don't trip or the Octaman will getcha! I always enjoyed riffing good bad movies myself.
Something about it's eyes. However, it simply wasn't possible to continue wading through the extremely slow sections, i.e. This time, though, our gill-man is an eight-limbed monster with really intelligent eyes and a supremely pissed-off disposition and its name is OCTAMAN. Octaman is kind of a tricky movie to review. But as it stands "Octaman" is essentially an hour and a half of nothing. Unable to get funding to continue his experiments Mathews asks a wealthy ranch owner to finance his activities, sensing an attraction for his circus he agrees. 0 out of 0 found this helpful. Oh, no! Movie Clock told me I had been watching this for about an hour. 0 out of 0 found this helpful. It's hard to see things at times. The film opens with stock footage and a monologue. ever blindside me.
Yeah, we've all seen movies like this before. luck - it was only 26 minutes.Since every time the 2 out of 3 found this helpful. Poorly made, with not much continuity, sometimes it cuts between night and day during the same scene. This film takes me back to the days of really bad drive in movies (that's good). This infamous piece of ultra-schlock cinema is a cavalcade of sleepy non-actors reciting absurd dialogue, seemingly learned while they were filming. The only really notable part of this is that the creature was created by none other than Rick Baker, the SFX genius whose work highlighted dozens of classics in the 1980s, and I did enjoy the retro look and feel of this aquatic beastie; a shame the rest of the production doesn't match. Unfortunately, the print is quite dark. Format: Prime Video Change. There's no big difference between "Octaman" and the conception of "Godzilla", which in the 70's was also incredibly laughable.
3.3 out of 5 stars. And what was the point of giving the creature eyesight like an insect? Run and don't trip or the Octaman will getcha!Do you want a schlocky old-school 1970's man-in-suit monster movie? Though even more horrifying yet, is the fact that there are at least three other monster flicks that are even lamer (Curse of Bigfoot, The Creeping Terror and Night Fright - not to be confused with Fright Night, which isn't bad). ecologists put a rubber octopus in a bucket, Octaman shows up and kills A group of scientists tries to catch the creature but Octaman seems to be much smarter than he looks.
I was particularly smitten with the prismatic effect of the octa-vision, while the Octaman as shown only has two eyes.