Tentacles (film)
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Theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro
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| Directed by |
Ovidio G. Assonitis (as Oliver Hellman) |
| Produced by |
Ovidio G. Assonitis Enzo Doria |
| Written by |
Steven W. Carabatsos Tito Carpi Jerome Max Sonia Molteni |
| Starring |
John Huston Shelley Winters Bo Hopkins Henry Fonda |
| Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
| Cinematography | Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli |
| Edited by | Angelo Curi |
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country |
Italy United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $750,000 |
| Box office | $3,000,000 |
Tentacles (Italian title: Tentacoli) is a 1977 Italian-American horror film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins and Henry Fonda. Although the film was intended to cash in on the success of Jaws,Tentacles also bears numerous resemblances to the 1955 science fiction horror film It Came from Beneath the Sea.
Ocean 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.
The film was produced to capitalize on the success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
The film's score was done by Italian composer Stelvio Cipriani, who scored the similarly Jaws-inspired films The Great Alligator and Piranha II: The Spawning around the same time.
It was released theatrically by American International Pictures in Italy on February 25, 1977, and in the United States on August 3, 1977.
The film was released on DVD by MGM in 2005 as part of their Midnite Movies series. The disc was a double feature release, pairing the film with Empire of the Ants.
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