Today's Pearl: "Octoman"
Described as a "Poor man's Creature From the Black Lagoon", this turkey is about a scientific team that stumbles over a creature that is half-man half-octopus. (Didn't see that coming did you!?)
It has all the elements of a bad flick (terrible acting, bad directing, atrocious writing, etc..
The Piece de resistance, though is the fact that the special effects supervisor was none other than Rick Baker who went on to be one of the best SE guys in the business. ("Men in Black" I/II; "Planet of the Apes" "Batman Forever".) Oh, well guess everybody's gotta start somewhere.
Footnote: I was just checking the IMDb page on writer, director Harry Essex. It turns out he was the screenwriter for "Creature From The Black Lagoon" and "It Came from Outer Space". Go figgur!
Described as a "Poor man's Creature From the Black Lagoon", this turkey is about a scientific team that stumbles over a creature that is half-man half-octopus. (Didn't see that coming did you!?)
It has all the elements of a bad flick (terrible acting, bad directing, atrocious writing, etc..
The Piece de resistance, though is the fact that the special effects supervisor was none other than Rick Baker who went on to be one of the best SE guys in the business. ("Men in Black" I/II; "Planet of the Apes" "Batman Forever".) Oh, well guess everybody's gotta start somewhere.
Footnote: I was just checking the IMDb page on writer, director Harry Essex. It turns out he was the screenwriter for "Creature From The Black Lagoon" and "It Came from Outer Space". Go figgur!
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