Oh. My. God.
My friend John, who I recently visited in his home just north if Chicago, runs the highly entertaining DVD Geeks radio and tv show. Well, since he reviews DVDs he gets sent a lot of them from studios far and wide… A LOT (he has shelves galore full of them – none of them are mounted on the wall, mind you, but he has them).
While I was in town he inflicted… Err, I mean, he showed me one of the latest titles he had received, one he could not wait to watch… The direct to video Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus.
I have included a photo of the cover, because it’s just too fantastic to not do so – the Giant Octopus is destroying an ocean liner as he (it?) fights with Mega Shark… Unfortunately, that scene is not in the movie. But an action sequence shown on the back of the DVD cover is.
Oh, and… SPOILERS! From here on…
We actually get to see Mega Shark jump out of the ocean and take down a passenger plane. Seriously.
That is all you need to know about this movie – oh, except that it stars Debbie… Oh, sorry, Deborah Gibson. And Lorenzo Lamas.
I used to think movies of this… Quality… Were no longer being produced. I was wrong. OK, Rifftrax guys, get started on a commentary track for this one as soon as possible.
See it, live it, and embrace the cheesy filling goodness that is Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus.
UPDATE: Here, thanks to YouTube, is the aforementioned aerial shark attack (warning, there’s a naughty word):
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