I don't think I've ever really seen a good review or even heard anyone say anything positive about this JAWS-rip-off flick but I didn't think it was all that bad. Maybe I've seen too many shitty Italian JAWS-rip-off movies already but to me this one was an interesting mish-mosh of different elements mixed together in a 70's style soup of exploitation cheese that I enjoyed for what it was. It's an Italian/American co-production directed by a guy who would make similar semi-entertaining dreck like BEYOND THE DOOR and PIRANHA 2 and it stars a bunch of Hollywood types who had seen better days which gives it that TV-movie of the week feel(and I do love star-studded 70's TV-movies!). There's Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Crazy Lee from THE WILD BUNCH(Bo Hopkins) and Sheriff Lobo himself Claude Akins. Some of the FX look decent especially when they use a real octopus and you get an octopus versus a killer whale finale which was pretty neat. An added bonus is a baby getting killed which I can't imagine happens in too many other PG-rated movies.
Wait a second. What the hell does this movie have to do with Piranha 2? I really don't like this movie.
ReplyDeleteIt has the same director, it has lots of water in it, it has stuff in the water killing people.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that James Cameron did Tentacles. Hard to believe.
ReplyDeleteActually PIRANHA 2 was technically shot by a few different people but mostly by Ovidio Assonitis who is officially credited as the producer but was responsible for the editing and the completed final movie. He's also listed on IMDB as the uncredited director. Cameron only shot PIRANHA 2 for two and a half weeks before getting replaced and according to him TERMINATOR was his 1st movie. The internet is a wonderful tool full of all kinds of information, isn't it?
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