A 2000 American Made-for-TV Movie directed by John Eyres that an octopus attacking a sub while it's transporting a terrorist leader for trial.
The movie stars Jay Harrington, Ravil Isyanov, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery, Rico Ross, and Jeff Nuttall.
It was followed by the 2001 sequel, Octopus 2: River of Fear.
The movie aired on USA Network on October 11, 2000.
Tropes for the film:
- Artistic License – Biology: 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 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.
- "Die Hard" on an X: On a sub, then on a boat, with Russian terrorists and a really big octopus.
- Giant Squid: The movie features a submarine facing off with a gigantic, mutated octopus deep under the ocean.
- Groin Attack: 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 showing off her left leg and as Oscar 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.
- Mirror Scare: Double Subversion: The sexy 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.
- Tagline: "A Cruise to Hell...".
- Tentacled Terror: 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 U.S. attempt to defeat a terrorist cell and that cell's effort to rescue their captured leader.
