Welcome to Satanists on Cinema. We are your hosts Satanist Cameron John and Reverend Campbell. Satanists on Cinema is a film review and commentary series that is dubbed in English directly from the throats of its hosts; who normally dwell in the depths of the oceans, but are awakened weekly by illegal experiments, provoking their acts of indulgence upon the audience. Pick up your walkie talkies and call your pet killer whales because it’s time for our review of Tentacles!
Discussion
Log Line: A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis (as Oliver Hellman)
Writers: Jerome Max, Tito Carpi, Steven W. Carabatsos (as Steve Carabatsos)
Budget: $750,000
Box office: $3 million
Release date: 25 February 1977 (Italy) & 15 June 1977 (New York)
intended to cash in on the success of Jaws
bears numerous resemblances to the 1955 science fiction horror film It Came from Beneath the Sea
shot on location in Oceanside, Pismo Beach, and San Diego, California
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
Strange editing (freeze frame to action)
Summer and winter, when I met her, when I married her
Cast
John Huston - Ned Turner
Shelley Winters - Tillie Turner
Bo Hopkins - Will Gleason
Henry Fonda - Mr. Whitehead, President of Trojan Construction
Delia Boccardo - Vicky Gleason
Links
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076809/
3.8/10 stars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacles_(film)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tentacles
0% Rotten with a 9% audience score
Ratings
Satanist Cameron John
1 Banana Sticker Rating
Reverend Campbell
1/2 Banana Sticker Rating
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