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Caltiki, The Immortal Monster

Archaeologists discover the Blob's long-lost Mayan cousin in the ancient abandoned town of Tikel. Animated every 1400 years or so by the emanations of a passing comet, Caltiki consumes all in its path. Fortunately, this variety of giant amoeba is extremely susceptible to the military's handy arsenal of flamethrowers.

Tentacles

Low-budget Italian Jaws rip-off has a cast that must be seen to be believed. John Huston and Shelley Winters are in the thick of it, except for the fact that they never come in contact with the monster at all. Huston's a reporter investigating the shady offshore-drilling business dealings of one Mr. Whitehead (Henry Fonda, who literally phones in his performance), which may be enraging the octopus and causing its killing spree. Winters is a nattering mother with two kids who looks suspiciously like Octopus Chow. By the end of the film we're rooting for two pre-Willy killer whales to chomp the octopus to bits. Unfortunately, it looks like two hand-puppet orcas destroy a real octopus for the movie's final scenes, which seems like a pretty senseless waste of a good octopus.

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