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Octopus (1998): A made-for-IMAX deep sea look at the octopus including some excellent footage of the animal's camoflage techniques and feeding habits. Willem Dafoe narrates.

Octopus (1998): Budding filmmakers Jared and Corey hatch a plan to make a horror flick, in part to launch their careers but mostly to meet women. But suddenly everyone wants to be a movie star - friends, relatives, teachers, the film's sponsors - and Jared and Corey can't afford to say no. The result may not win them an Oscar but they do win true love in the end.

Octopus (1998): Sprawling publishing conglomerate Octopus International has eight divisons: Big Books for Little People; Little Books for Big People; Books That Are Too Heavy for One Individual to Lift; Books With All the Color Plates Smushed Together in the Center; Books for Yard Sales; Bloated, Glorified Magazines; Sequels; and Readable-in-One-Sitting Story or Essay Things That Are Foisted on the Holiday Shopper as Proper Books, Even Though They're Really Not. After some rather nice bedroom scenes, we see the eight competing corporate arms engage in a comical spree of mutual sabotage, as the annual Board of Directors Meeting approaches.

Octopus (1998): Standard low budget horror fare. A small Maine town is menaced by a mutant octopus as represented by some giant rubber tentacles. Scantily-clad coeds scream a lot. This is either a postmodern tribute to all those awful 1950s and '60s creature features or a brand new awful 1990s creature feature. You decide.

Octopus (1998): A.K.A. La Poulpe. Freelance private detective Gabriel Lecouvreur, aka the Octopus, investigates a gruesome series of murders in a French harbor town. Cheryl's parents' graves have been desecrated, and investigating this crime leads the couple to all sorts of quirky characters and suspects. There is a corpse in S&M gear, a racist Front National member, local prostitutes, dwarves, a drunken Scottish writer and a Spanish accomplice. And Cheryl herself has a sexual appetite that could keep Gabriel permanently occupied.

None of the synopses above could possibly be legitimate!

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