[Prof. Carter pulls an octopus from an aquarium tank]

Prof. John Carter:  Here, gentlemen, is your villain.

Naval Asst. Sec. Robert David Chase: It would take an enormous number of those to disable a Navy submarine.

Prof. Lesleyl Joyce:  Or just one of enormous size, Mr. Chase.

It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.    Joseph Conrad

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. 

H. P. Lovecraft

I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind—of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium. 

H. P. Lovecraft, "Dagon"

 + Also includes Squid, Crab, Beach horror, Lighthouse horror, Ghost Ship, Island, & Sea Monsters horror films

It Came From Beneath the Sea (Octopus horror films)

Donald Curtis, Faith Domergue, and Kenneth Tobey in It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Fred Savage, Olivia d'Abo, Danica McKellar, Jason Hervey, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills, and Josh Saviano in The Wonder Years (1988)

Guy Madison in The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon (1952)

Charles Manson in Will You Kill for Me? Charles Manson and His Followers (2008)

The Movies to be featured every Thursday at the Insomniac Drive-In

Ishirô Honda and Takashi Shimura in Godzilla (1954)

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