About This Film
Solana Beach, a seaside tourist resort, has come under attack by a giant octopus, which captures and devours human swimmers and boaters, picking the skeletons clean of flesh and bone marrow. Marine expert Will Gleason (Hopkins) and crusading newspaper reporter Ned Turner (Huston) suspect the construction of an underwater tunnel by the Trojan company, owned by Mr. Whitehead (Fonda). Trojan has been using radio signals that have been "above regulated levels", somehow maddening the octopus and causing it to attack human beings. In the end, the octopus is killed by Gleason's pair of killer whales.
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions.
Film Details
Director
Ovidio G. Assonitis
Writers
Steven W. Carabatsos, Jerome Max, Tito Carpi
Keywords
Psychotronic Film
Violence
Bare Chested Male
Cigarette Smoking
Corpse
Husband Wife Relationship
Telephone Call
Escape
Chase
Dead Body
Beach
Creature Feature
Bikini
Family Relationships
Rescue
Brother Sister Relationship
Sheriff
Corruption
Surrealism
Skeleton
Dark Comedy
California
Animal Attack
Child In Jeopardy
Journalist
Mutation
Yacht
Montage
United States Of America
Motorboat
Bribe
Businessman
Loss Of Wife
Newspaper Reporter
Natural Horror
Walkie Talkie
Scuba Diving
Pollution
Monster Horror
Single Mother
Coroner
Biologist
Spear Gun
Tentacle
Scuba Diver
Loss Of Sister
Dead Fish
Rip Off
Underwater
Marine Biologist
Loss Of Son
Nature Horror
Loss Of Child
Speargun
Giant Octopus
Dead Body In Water
Sinking Boat
Tracking Shot
Wooden Leg
Swimming In The Sea
Buried Under Rubble
Harbor Patrol
Sea Captain
Decompression Sickness
Yacht Race
Water Sports
Fictional Town
Seaside Town
Radio Chatter
Jaws Rip Off
Sail Boat
X Ray Image
Marine Park
Sailing Competition
Seabed
Ocean Floor
Coast Guard Helicopter
Killer Whale
Orca
Junior Regatta
Also Known As
Angriff aus der Tiefe, Tentacoli, Tentakel des Todes, 홀리데이 킬러, 텐타콜리