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Octaman

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A team of scientists, led by Dr. Rick Torres (Kerwin Mathews), travels to Mexico to research radioactive material in the water. While there, they discover several octopi that appear to have a human mutation and take them back to the lab for more study. Their benign abduction awakens the parent octopus, however, endangering the lives of all the scientists. Octaman (Read Morgan), as he is called, employs several predatory methods, including strangulation and hypnosis.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins There are a few amusing scenes of violence, where fake blood and dislodged eyeballs demonstrate an intention of genuine horror. Rated: 2/10 Aug 30, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Absolutely loved this film. Recommended for all!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Hilariously awful tale about a rubber suited humanoid octopus terrorizing a group of scientists out in the dessert. This is really a zero-star film, but I did get two-and-a-half stars worth of ironic enjoyment out of the film. Pier Angeli does some serious slumming for her final film appearance, She died of a drug overdose during filming. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Embarrassment for the folks listed in the credits (except for maybe Rick Baker, because, though kinda goofy, the monster suit is of nifty design), entertainment for the rest of us. A little draggy but the numerous golden nuggets of incompetence scattered throughout make it worth a sit-through Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member One of those man in a rubber monster suit films where a research team studying alarmingly high levels of atomic radiation in water in Latin American has some dangerous encounters with a mutated octopus that can walk and live outside of water. For the talk about these waters being important to a poor local fishing village, you never do see a trace of any fishing going on. Could be why the village is so poor. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Another man-running-around-in-a-rubber-monster-suit flick. Angeli committed suicide after making this one. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Cheesiest of the cheesy. Some of the worst acting I've encountered. The story didn't have enough structure. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A team of scientists, led by Dr. Rick Torres (Kerwin Mathews), travels to Mexico to research radioactive material in the water. While there, they discover several octopi that appear to have a human mutation and take them back to the lab for more study. Their benign abduction awakens the parent octopus, however, endangering the lives of all the scientists. Octaman (Read Morgan), as he is called, employs several predatory methods, including strangulation and hypnosis.
Director
Harry Essex
Producer
Michael Kraike
Screenwriter
Harry Essex
Production Co
Filmers Guild, Heritage Enterprises Inc.
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 29, 2019
Runtime
1h 23m
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