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Scientist Dr Torres (Kerwin Mathews) investigates the unusually high
radiation in a lake near a Mexican fishing village - and finds an unusual
octopus with a partly human DNA. He goes to the city to get additional
funding to investigate further, but is turned down. When he returns to
camp, those he left behind are dead, apparently killed by a mansized
octopus walking on land. Since Torres fails to get funding from
traditional sources, his girlfriend Susan (Pier Angeli) hooks him up with
a carny promoter, who actually just wants to have octaman as his latest
attraction. Back at the lake, it doesn't take long until they are attacked
by octaman, again and again, and the creature seems to grow fiercer every
time. Only Susan seems to somehow be able to control him to a degree -
though it's never explained why. Anyway, there are many casualties, and
the carny promoter does the only sensible thing and demands to break camp
- but somehow, Torres convinces all the others to not only stay but drive
deeper into octaman territory to study him in his natural habitat. Octaman
seems to be incredibly clever though as he builds a roadblock to ... block
the road I suppose, then he captures our heroes in some caves, and when
they manage to get out, he hides in their van to attack. Susan manages to
calm octaman down and offer herself as his trophy or something, but then
she and the others shoot him dead, quite despite the fact that he was so
far impervious to bullets. Basically, Octaman is a film
that seems to come right out of the 1950's, as it has got all the right
ingredients for your typical drive-in monster movie of that era: A monster
that seems to have stepped right off a pulp cover regarding design but is
clearly a man in a monstersuit on closer inspection and misunderstood
science with a hint of nuclear threat thrown in just for good measure
paired with some very blunt shock and suspense scenes, actors as wooden as
their characters, and a very formulaic storyline. In other words, no this
is not a masterpiece ... but lovers of monster and trashmovies will find
at least something to smile about, as at least the story is moved forward
at a steady enough pace, and as formulaic as the movie is, at least the
filmmakers understood the formula well enough for genre lovers to enjoy.
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