clarkemsmith This movie amazes me in how terrible it is. There is truly ZERO talent in the director, writer or anyone involved (sans classic actors). It is simply insulting beyond belief. Just about anyone could have made a better movie. I know for a fact that I could have. The fact that this film cashed in on Jaws and skillfully coaxed (tricked) many of us to go see this damn thing in theaters in 1977 (I did at age 11), is quite frankly disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves. Yeah I know as this writing, its been 41 long years since it came out, but its still and always will be 2 hours of my young life I can't get back.This might be the worst bad movie on earth, based upon its budget and cast. The director should apologize for it. He's not going to, because according to its wiki, it made quite a mint worldwide. Its simply a horrible piece of crap, and I despise it more than words can tell. I've been on a kick lately, googling and watching movies from my childhood. I had never seen it since 1977, so I decided to look at it today.I didn't expect to actually get MAD about it, but I am! It makes me sick how poor it is. How an utter lack of talent went into it. How it tricked movie goers into seeing it, with a stylish (for the time) movie poster. Its such a pile of garbage, my God. I almost feel guilty that I dragged my poor mom and dad to the drive-in, to witness this film. What they must've thought. A few months after Star Wars, and this is what we get from going to the movies?Damn this director to hell!!!

Star&Stripes My Art:two for Hellmann http://i.imgur.com/xZTLZk4h.jpg , http://i.imgur.com/Vt9K3Yrh.jpg I want ask to producers a question,listen: If they will make a sequel of the level of previous Jaws(but the first one) and Tentacles, so JAWS 5 and Tentacles 2... WHERE YOU WILL GO immediately? I believe Jaws 5 will be a flat,little chic movies for a light evening but Tentacles 2 is a HEARTLOVING EXPERIENCE OF A COLOSSAL DRAMA!BATTLE,BATTLE AND FEELING WITH THE WAVES AND THE GOD OF OCEAN!So, any comparizon is null.. 0) Jaws 1,2,3,4 is a "RIP OFF" of Tentacles: REALTY. 1) Tentacles is not a "rip off" of nothing. It's a independent OPERA. 2) Tentacles is a Colossal. Yes: COLOSSAL. Jaws a Flat film. Not immersive film. Not human and flat. 3) Tentacles is a Drama, Jaws is "shark destroys only". 4) Jaws1234 loses vs ONE movie: Tentacles! 5) Plastic Octopus: what is the problem ? A movie is already a fiction.And if the movie is EXCELLENT with a puppet or plastic octopus:GREAT JOB! And if it was a Mech Octopus the movie will be more better! 6) Music: empathy 100%. Music battle,music for cry. Jaws: standard movie with pretty good music. Okay. A) 1977: thay have worked DEEPLY. It's an Italian-USA movie or not? Where are movies after 40 FORTY YEARS, you can see all digital graphics BUT okay the movies now are NOTHING. Hollywood is out Gold Age, it's clear. Deeply,love!! Where are NOW? B) Great Job Italy! Not only political,country social movies.... C) If you see Attack Titan (japanese true movie) you can feel what is Art and Fake. D) Tentacles express a Top One Colossal movie. And is an octopus the starring! Great Job Hollywood! E) What do you think about final battle with killer whales... it's a God moment. Where is Jaws, please, stop propaganda of Majors.... it's without honour. W L'ITALIA!

utgard14 A giant octopus is attacking a seaside resort. A newspaper reporter (John Huston) teams up with a marine expert (Bo Hopkins) to investigate. Soon they discover an underwater tunnel being built by Henry Fonda's company may be to blame for the octopus attacks. Oh and Shelly Winters is Huston's oversexed, overweight sister. Italian-American Jaws rip-off is good for some laughs and worth seeing for the slumming cast. Especially fun is hammy Shelly Winters. The sight of Winters in a novelty-sized sombrero will surely brighten your day. Henry Fonda's scenes are separate from most of the cast and he never references anything specific to the movie's plot. It's bizarre. Stelvio Cipriani's score ranges from good to irritating. Sadly, not the worst Jaws rip-off I've seen.

JoeB131 There was once this little movie, you might have heard of called "Jaws", about a shark that terrorized a little town in New England. It made a bunch of money and got a bunch of hack movie makers thinking, "How can we rip this off? What else in nature scares us?" So Dino DeLaurentis did something with a killer whale, and Roger Corman did something with piranhas, and Samuel Arkoff did this thing with a giant octopus. And he got some good actors to star in it, but it was clear they realized they were nowhere near quality and just phoned it in.So this beach community in Los Angeles (which seems to have an inordinate amount of people with Italian accents, for some reason) is under attack by a giant octopus that is attracted to radios. The first victim is a baby. (Oh, if you have to kill kids to make your horror work, you're a hack!) We have a bunch of shots of a real octopus with miniatures and some day-players dying of bad editing.Then you have this meaningless ending where they sic a couple of killer whales on the giant octopus...The movie is never clear on who the protagonists are. I'm not even sure the writers knew. The whole subplot with John Huston and Henry Fonda almost seems tacked on.