Octaman

OCTAMAN is an extraordinarily low budget creature feature of 1971, which looks and feels like a B-movie from the 1950s - except cheaper and not as good. A group of explorers encounter a local creature in a watering hole in Mexico and soon find themselves menaced by the rubber-suited titular creature. The only really notable part of this is that the creature was created by none other than Rick Baker, the SFX genius whose work highlighted dozens of classics in the 1980s, and I did enjoy the retro look and feel of this aquatic beastie; a shame the rest of the production doesn't match.

Watching OCTAMAN, a thought occurred to me (which was clearly something that didn't happen to the folks who made this one): on a scale of one to ten, with ten being excellent, OCTAMAN would barely qualify as a one (awful)- BUT... If one were to INVERT the one to ten scale, so that a one was Number One, or the very HEIGHT of its type (in this case, BAD, as in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE bad), then OCTAMAN would be NUMBER ONE!!! It all makes sense, now... They weren't trying to make a BAD movie, they were shooting for Number One- which, if we use the Inverted Scale, OCTAMAN actually IS!!! So, to sum up: OCTAMAN isn't a "one," it's Number One. Got it? Good. Don't say I ain't never done nothing' for ya.

In reality, It will bore you to death and make you cry!!! A pathetic 50's style rubber monster that appears as if he will fall over at any moment. The acting is bad, the effects are bad (Poor Rick Baker), the photography is terrible (It appears as though some scenes were filmed with the lens cap on!!!) and Harry Essex has got to be the most incompetent director ever!!!! I loved every minute of it!