The director just gave up. That thud was the door closing after him as he leaves. #Monsterdon

... wat #monsterdon

Did this just turn into a slide show?
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Coming in hot!

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#Monsterdon Oh. It’s the kind of itty-bitty sailboard thing that makes you lean way out over the water.

The writers wanted something without the delicate subtleties of Jaws, I see.

@brooke That means the harvest will be GREAT this year, right?

#monsterdon #tentacles

Ah, this brings back fond memories of sailing a Laser. 😎

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I like how this editing makes it look like Shelley's radioing the "funny story" to her kid

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ma'am, jamie is actually steering a boat right now and can't answer your dumb questions. #monsterdon

Wonder why they didn't dub over this actress's Italian accent the way they were doing the others #monsterdon

oh gods brace yourself the director is trying to get arty

#monsterdon #Tentacles

All the racers with their butts hanging off their boats like this... no.

Wait what is the joke overdubbed?

I am so lost.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

notice: the helicopter is radio dispatched, but the octopus cannot FLY. we think. #monsterdon

Smorgasbord #monsterdon

#monsterdon oh shit, guys, it's time for the yacht race! it's the yacht race we've all been waiting for!!! thank god, the yacht race is finally here!!!

Harpsichord!

And the octopus takes a commanding lead in the yacht race

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#monsterdon Guests will stay at the lovely Solana Beach resort and receive a complimentary tour in one of our Solana Beach Tentacle Death Boats! /Cheerful game show music blasts on

Brooding, marine biologist just doesn’t work. #Monsterdon

@sean It's Sir BedAvere explaining how the earth is bawnawnaw shaped, all over again! #Monsterdon

And now we have the inspirational music, so we know Tentacles is going to feed.
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And I was completely unprepared for the extremely jaunty turn to regatta party day. This film is utterly confounding my sense of story beats. #monsterdon

the music makes it seem like something is going on but idk what

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aw yeah DISCO HARPSICHORD, GO! #monsterdon

swinging off the side of a tiny boat like that looks like so much fun if thats what rich people are up to when they go on boats i want in on that #monsterdon

That wasn't even a funny story... What.. why... Don't drink and edit film, folks

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977

We put top men on the job #Monsterdon

Oh laws almost 35 more minutes of this "movie"? I need... I am not sure what I need. Damn.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

@sean they're like the sanity clause in your contract #monsterdon

wait why did we jump immediately to destroying the octopus #monsterdon

Boat race jazz!!

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

Is it a giant octopus or a giant squid god dammit? #Monsterdon

Turner just called it a “giant squid.” Was that on purpose, or was it a mistake?

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#monsterdon nice belt henry fonda, did shelley winters pick it out for you #monsterdon

Octopuses are normally shy girls. But this gal is out for blood.
#Monsterdon #Tentacles

"ah only got one thought on mah mind"

"What accent you're going to use next?"

"what accent I'm gonna use next."

#monsterdon #Tentacles

Strangely, hers is the only dialogue in the movie that isn't dubbed.

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ooh, plot point collision #monsterdon

@sean It is pretty good outside of the movie. I hope they don’t chop up the regatta music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90STAvJZbvY #monsterdon #tentacles

Octopus John. Giant Octopus! Not Squid... ahhhh fuck it.. print it. #monsterdon #Tentacles

I'm sure those Radio Shack walkie talkies will work great on the open ocean. #Monsterdon

HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE AREA!

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Wait this is from the 70s were there already commercial lasers then??? what #monsterdon

edit: apparently yes, first commercial lasers were already in the 60s. TIL

John Huston and Shelley Winter? How did I never hear about this movie? I went to the movies in 1977.
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microphones are a thing many filmmakers employ

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I don’t like the cut of their jibs. #Monsterdon #tentacles

um, did this movie just go power point presentation for a minute or is my copy just bad??? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon And now a really jolly bit of disco-ish music to herald the yacht - sorry, sailboat- race.

These boats look like Sunfish if my mind's not playing tricks on me #monsterdon

AND JUST KEEP LOOPING THE SOUNDTRACK. #monsterdon #tentacles

it's an octopus and IT'S PISSED #monsterdon

It's cheaper to produce if you replace all the motion shots with stills, I guess. #monsterdon #tentacles

OMG, this dialog!

“Compared to suckers on a tentacle, claws are nothing, Mr. Turner. Nothing.” #Monsterdon

This #Monsterdon is a movie that should be heard and not seen

I mean, I guess it’s better than dialog, right?

#MusicalInterlude #Monsterdon

low key if they pull off this scene it could be incredible they have actually set something up for the first time here #monsterdon

Soemthin pissed-off this octopus

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Ah yes, the ceremonial carrying of the surfboards while we pay homage to Uncle Sam. Well done, Italians. You truly understand the USA.

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#monsterdon yall the race is one the 21! That's only a few days away!

Wait that shot to start the race was a still image. Was the take so bad and they didn't do another one that they had to use a still image?!

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977

Diving in long linen trousers, expert level

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#monsterdon They should've put an Octopus or god in here.

This yacht race is a little dinghy #Monsterdon #tentacles

"I went past legal limits"
"Why?"
"It seemed a good idea at the time"
#monsterdon

"Why me, Sheriff?" "Because you're perfect." "Oh yeah, right."

#monsterdon #Tentacles

We need Captain Quint. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon one of the extras is wearing a cowboy hat, just waiting for instruction from shelley winters' hat #monsterdon

@ColesStreetPothole nah I think you got it

There was also a giant hat and the octopus's harpsichord theme

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Why are a bunch of the sails marked with "laser" huh #monsterdon

@moira this is lethargic budget Alpert. real Alpert is quite a bit better #Monsterdon

THIS is what Jaws was missing! A regatta with cheery music

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I prefer sunfish to be honest, they are simpler
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"Yep, we just untie the cleat rope aaaaaand let 'em go. Wave bye bye to aaaaall my problems! Bye boys~!" #Monsterdon

Everybody counterweighting their boats, that octopus is gonna learn to eat ass real quick. #monsterdon #tentacles

Please, don't let those kids deliver any more lines, okay? #monsterdon

This is two scenes of just music while people are near boats. The first was kind of atmospheric, this one sounds like game show music.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

I'm unfamiliar with boating. Are we sure these sailboats qualify as yachts? This is the yacht race, right?

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977

I bet Tentacles is killing people to make the upbeat music stop.
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#monsterdon I like this large group of extras just vibing by the ocean at night

also this is like, some kinda "all is happy and carefree AT THE MALL" music #monsterdon

All of the music in this movie is a lot. Look at all these kids getting ready for what we've established to be a tragic yacht race! Get the horn section going!

#monsterdon #tentacles

It's a race alright, a race to see how many kids the octopus can snatch off boats to plant in it's garden.

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The fishing season has been bad this year, so will be making a few sacrifices to the octopus good. #Monsterdon

the soundtrack of this movie is another kind of horror allright
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didn’t realize watching two unhinged bud spencer movies would prepare me so well for this week’s #monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON

🐙 TENTACLES TRIVIA TROVE 💎

Almost appeared in #Tentacles:

John Houseman
Yul Brynner
John Wayne (Deemed about to die by the director. He in fact did die soon after the movie.)

#Tentacles1977

what's going on tho?

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That brass section is really getting into it, now. #Monsterdon

forgot it’s the 70’s we’re all supposed to be really high #Monsterdon

wait what
all that long ass crowd scene just to show sad man smoking a durry
#monsterdon #Tentacles

47 years and 2 days ago.

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Sorry if I get too far ahead of y'all, I'm hitting that +30 seconds button with abandon at this point #monsterdon #tubitv

BOATS!

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Oh laws the tube socks. I can FEEL those.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles

WHY THE LONG HOLD ON THE SHOTGUN? #monsterdon #tentacles

someone spent way too much time listening to herb alpert and the tijuana brass

#monsterdon #Tentacles

Am I hearing a whale flute

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The Mastodon comments to this movie are so much better than the dialogue.
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So let me guess, in the climactic scene the sailboat flips over and Shelley Winters has to climb up through it to get rescued? #Monsterdon

@Crazypedia To be fair I do not thing the giant octopus kaiju had a vote in creating those regulations

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Our reporter shouting into the phone while hanging up is fantastic #Monsterdon #Tentacles