As someone who will watch literally any horror or sci-fi movie set in San Francisco, it's pretty preposterous that I had not yet seen It Came From Beneath the Sea. To be fair, I suspected I had already seen the best parts of it, as I've seen the clips of the giant octopus attacking the Ferry Building and the Golden Gate Bridge many times. Turns out, yes indeed, those are the best parts of the movie.
The rest of it is, frankly, a total bore, even though they try to juice up the military blather and pseudo-science by tossing in a romance between submarine commander Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey) and Marine biologist Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue).
But it takes way too long until we get a glimpse of the creature, and way, way too long until that creature gets to San Francisco. But those moments, thanks to the special effects from legend Ray Harryhausen, are just pure fun. (Pay attention to the number of tentacles that "octopus" actually has.)
I was surprised the only place I could find a free streaming copy was on Tubi, with commercials. But it's also available as a rental basically anywhere else.
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