Painful rip-off of Jaws has a cast with some big names for such a positively B-grade movie as Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Bo Hopkins and other residents of a Miami Beach town start getting terrorized by a giant octopus who's killing residents and getting a taste for blood.

While the opening scene of a baby being snatched from the shore shows promise the doldrums soon set-in as we're forced to sit through a movie thats plot just meanders along and is punctuated with some tentacle attacks that completely lack any suspense. The name actors in the cast look like they're just in it for the paycheck (and Fonda looks utterly bored in his small screen-time) and the octopus is laughably rubbery.

One of many films to come out after the success of Jaws, and one of the worst of the bunch. At one point a character exclaims, "Compared to suckers on a tentacle, claws are nothing" - then why would I rather be watching Grizzly, another animal-rampage movie that came out the same year?

Directed By: Oliver Hellman (Ovidio Assonitis).
Written By: Steve Carabatsos, Tito Carpi, Jerome Max.

Starring: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda.