Review of Octaman

Octaman (1971)
1/10
Breaking all the rules...
21 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This movie was a throwback to the old 1950's rubber suit monster films, but it doesn't really work here.

The monster, per se, is shown in full in the first five minutes of the film, and rule one of monster movies is you don't reveal your monster until the climax.

So the presence of radiation creates an Octoman- Half Man, Half Octopus, leaving you to your imagination of how that act of conception happened. Except maybe it wasn't, since they implied the creature has been terrorizing the bad racist stereotypes who live in this village for decades. Oh, well, whatever.

There's some over the top 1970's vintage gore and some terrible acting with dubbed dialog, and the monster is quite comical to look at. It doesn't really rise to "So bad it's good" status, though. So I'll give it a one.
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