Review of Tentacles (1977) by Justin A — 11 Mar 2016

This movie is fascinating and obnoxious, but mostly just terrible. It starts off pretty well as just a generic animals attack movie that blatantly rips off Jaws. There were plenty of them at the time and this had some promise. Midway through though, the movie starts to become blatantly Italian schlock with some annoying music looped over and over while characters are muted and the editor seems to be messing around on purpose cutting to unnecessary freeze frames, long drawn out shots that aren't even in focus, and even a shot of a woman picking her nose that was not played for laughs, but probably something that came upon in the footage. This movie is like a bad joke where the filmmakers gave up halfway through.

It's amazing that the cast share between them six Oscars. I would never give this movie a recommendation, but it had me laughing at time with the bizarre edits and use of miniature models. It even has a whale vs. octopus fight done by ramming a toy killer whale multiple times into a live octopus. It's both cruel and hilarious.