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* MirrorScare: DoubleSubversion: The sexy scientist is getting changed. She closes the bathroom mirror while ominous music plays in the background, then... nothing. Until she turns around, and suddenly the bad guy is there.

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* GroinAttack: Near the end of the movie, Turner, Shaw, and Dr. Finch are about to be killed by Casper's henchman Oscar. Dr. Finch decides to get the attention of Oscar by [[ShowSomeLeg showing off her left leg]] and as Oscar [[DistractedByTheSexy likes what he sees]], Dr. Finch quickly throws her left foot up so that she can kick Oscar in the groin, stunning him long enough for Turner to knock him out with a hard right punch.
* MirrorScare: DoubleSubversion: The sexy scientist scientist, Dr. Finch is getting changed. She closes the bathroom mirror while ominous music plays in the background, then... nothing. Until she turns around, and suddenly the bad guy is there.



* TentacledTerror: Features a giant octopus grown to giant size via exposure to radioactive material that was spilled into the waters off Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba's coasts for almost forty years until it's finally killed while unwittingly interfering in a US attempt to defeat a terrorist cell and that cell's effort to rescue their captured leader.

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* TentacledTerror: Features a giant octopus grown to giant size via exposure to radioactive material that was spilled into the waters off Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba's coasts for almost forty years until it's finally killed while unwittingly interfering in a US U.S. attempt to defeat a terrorist cell and that cell's effort to rescue their captured leader.
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A 2000 American TVMovie directed by Creator/JohnEyres that an octopus attacking a sub while it's transporting a terrorist leader for trial.

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A 2000 American TVMovie MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/JohnEyres that an octopus attacking a sub while it's transporting a terrorist leader for trial.



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* TentacledTerror: Features a giant octopus grown to giant size via exposure to radioactive material that was spilled into the waters off Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba's coasts for almost forty years until it's finally killed while unwittingly interfering in a US attempt to defeat a terrorist cell and that cell's effort to rescue their captured leader.

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* TentacledTerror: Features a giant octopus grown to giant size via exposure to radioactive material that was spilled into the waters off Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba's coasts for almost forty years until it's finally killed while unwittingly interfering in a US attempt to defeat a terrorist cell and that cell's effort to rescue their captured leader.leader.
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* MirrorScare: DoubleSubversion: The resident HotScientist is getting changed. She closes the bathroom mirror while ominous music plays in the background, then... nothing. Until she turns around, and suddenly the bad guy is there.

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* MirrorScare: DoubleSubversion: The resident HotScientist sexy scientist is getting changed. She closes the bathroom mirror while ominous music plays in the background, then... nothing. Until she turns around, and suddenly the bad guy is there.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Attributes its giant cephalopod's prodigious appetite for meat to a severe deficiency in iron, such that eating iron-rich flesh is all that's staving off its death from anemia. Mollusk blood uses ''cooper'', not iron, as an oxygen-carrier, so if anything it should have been chewing on the imperiled submarine's electric wiring, not its crew.

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Attributes its giant cephalopod's prodigious appetite for meat to a severe deficiency in iron, such that eating iron-rich flesh is all that's staving off its death from anemia. Mollusk blood uses ''cooper'', ''copper'', not iron, as an oxygen-carrier, so if anything it should have been chewing on the imperiled submarine's electric wiring, not its crew.
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A 2000 American TVMovie directed by Creator/JohnEyres that an octopus attacking a sub while it's transporting a terrorist leader for trial.

The movie stars Creator/JayHarrington, Creator/RavilIsyanov, Creator/DavidBeecroft, Creaotr/CarolynLowery, Creator/RicoRoss, and Creator/JeffNuttall.

It was followed by the 2001 sequel, ''Film/Octopus2RiverOfFear''.

The movie aired on Creator/USANetwork on October 11, 2000.

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!Tropes for the film:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Attributes its giant cephalopod's prodigious appetite for meat to a severe deficiency in iron, such that eating iron-rich flesh is all that's staving off its death from anemia. Mollusk blood uses ''cooper'', not iron, as an oxygen-carrier, so if anything it should have been chewing on the imperiled submarine's electric wiring, not its crew.
* DieHardOnAnX: On a sub, then on a boat, with Russian terrorists and a really big octopus.
* GiantSquid: The movie features a submarine facing off with a gigantic, mutated octopus deep under the ocean.
* MirrorScare: DoubleSubversion: The resident HotScientist is getting changed. She closes the bathroom mirror while ominous music plays in the background, then... nothing. Until she turns around, and suddenly the bad guy is there.
* TentacledTerror: Features a giant octopus grown to giant size via exposure to radioactive material that was spilled into the waters off Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba's coasts for almost forty years until it's finally killed while unwittingly interfering in a US attempt to defeat a terrorist cell and that cell's effort to rescue their captured leader.

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