Tentacles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[linda]

Trailer narrated by Percy Rodrigues. The movie was sold as an alternate take on The Jaws, and bringing in Rodriguez, most famous for narrating all The Jaws trailers, to narrate the trailer for this movie as well was part of this campaign.

[bessie]

The production spent nearly $1 million on a life-sized replica of a giant octopus, which promptly sank when put it in the water.

[kristina]

Stelvio Cipirani recycled most of his theme from "La Polizia Sta a guarde" (1973) into the main theme for this film.

[kenzi]

The movie was chosen to be part of famous german "SchleFaZ" series. It was aired April 2018 on german TV station Tele5. "SchleFaZ" is a german abbreviation, means "the worst films ever". In that series 2 hosts present the whole film and make fun of it throughout the movie.

[jamie]

The film's distributor offered theatres a promotional poster that listed several points about octopi, including the fact that they can reach sizes of over 38 feet from arm to arm.

[aaron]

The octopus that is "killed" by the Orcas in the finale was a real octopus. However, it was bought from a local market and was already dead.

[janice]

John Houseman was announced to star in this film but dropped out before filming.

[nina]

John Huston and Shelley Winters do not appear after 1:15, even though they are still alive. They are absent for the last 25 minutes of the film.

[harry]

Initially, Yul Brynner was set to star in the film but was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts.

[sophie]

At one point, Shelley Winters' character mentions that her second husband was Italian. Winters' second husband was Vittorio Gassman.

[michele]

Cesare Danova's voice is dubbed by another actor.

[wallace]

Although this was an entirely Italian production, it was shot in California.

[kenneth]

Henry Fonda filmed his scenes in one day. Fonda had just had a pacemaker fitted, and couldn't do anything too strenuous. All his scenes are fairly static, mostly talking on a telephone.