"Octaman" is a horror film from 1971. It's rightly regarded as a turkey. All the usual ingredients are there: lousy special effects, embarrassing monster, bad acting, illogical plot, and so on. It also has that strange charm which marks out turkeys from films that are merely bad. Indeed, "Octaman" is a cult classic. This is the 40th anniversary re-release.
The movie features what has to be the ultimate cryptid: a humanoid octopus, spawned in Mexico as the result of radioactive fallout from Hiroshima...I think. One of many unintentionally comic moments is the scene where the monster (a veritable killing machine) turns out to be vulnerable to flashlights! Come again?! :D
The one-star rating from my part could just as well be a five-star rating, depending on how you think hilariously nonsensical horror movies should be rated...
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