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
Reverend Campbell
