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Bud Brewster · Last edited by Bud Brewster on Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:55 pm; edited 9 times in total

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Roger Corman spent a whopping $12,000 on this six-day wonder — his very first movie, but certainly not his last (or his best). The "monster" is a giant one-eyed octopus (a Cycloptopus! Very Happy

), but we don't get to see it until the last ten minutes.

When we finally do, it's mighty hard to make out because the scenes are so dark, but careful examination reveals that the monster is actually walking on its tentacles like a spider (very cool), and there seems to be little lights on the tips to highlight the tentacles movements!

This screenshot doesn't show the tentacles, but it does show the remarkable detail in that eye!

However, it's almost worth the wait to finally see the monster, because the hero rescues the attractive heroine in the climax when he drives his nifty mini-sub straight at it several times while the monster reaches for it — and then he rams the creature right in the eye! Shocked

Directed by Wyott Ordung, who wrote the so-called script for "Robot Monster". Starring Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, and Dick Pinner.

A word about the poster for this movie — the artist actually represented the monster fairly accurately! But if that middle tentacle had been a centimeter lower and to the left, the young lady's father would have gotten out his shotgun and demanded the monster marry his daughter! Shocked

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1865

I once incorporated certain elements of this poster in the artwork for a cover mockup in anticipation of the then-upcoming DVD release of Disney's 20,000 Leagues, as a sendup of the "Sunset Squid" sequence.

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Rocky Jones · Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 12:49 pm Post subject:

As crappy as that poster ad is, I strongly suspect it's quality is dazzlingly superior to the actual film. That's Corman, for you, though.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 4:45 pm Post subject:

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Enjoy the trailer from Youtube and the movie from DailyMotion!

Bulldogtrekker and watched it tonight as a synchro-cinema, and we were surprised at how good the download looked. I'm temped to order the $9.95 DVD, but the download might be just as good!

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________ Monster from the Ocean Floor - Trailer

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)