Beware the DEATH SQUID

Tiplodocus · 20 January, 2004, 08:14:40 PM

That chrono-thief Peter Benchley is at it again. A quick check of tonights Chanel 5 schedule shows:

20-00 Real War Stories - Rommel - The Desert Fox.

21:00 Peter Benchley's The Beast
Sailors and divers begin to disappear in the waters around a small coastal community making a local fishing boat captain suspect the return of a deadly giant squid enshrined in folklore for generations. Feature length thriller written by the author of JAWS

23:00 Sexy secrets of sex industry naked video lap dance hooker girls in Thailand Celebrity special

24:00 Baseball

longmanshort · 20 January, 2004, 08:16:27 PM

Yesterday's comic, today, at tomorrow's prices!!

Matt Timson · 20 January, 2004, 08:27:10 PM

TODAY!

paulvonscott · 20 January, 2004, 08:59:12 PM

I think Giant Squids are fair game as they've been recorded throughought the history of drunken insane sailors.

However it should be pointed out that Deathsquid is a ginormous squid, no mere ginat squid is he.

Besides it hardly seems fair that peter should lay claim to every aquatic beastie out there.

Smiley · 21 January, 2004, 12:07:45 AM

*sigh* If only all that could be pulped into some sort of five hour movie extravaganza where baseball bat bimboes fought a giant Nazi desert squid...

The Amstor Computer · 21 January, 2004, 02:06:03 AM

"*sigh* If only all that could be pulped into some sort of five hour movie extravaganza where baseball bat bimboes fought a giant Nazi desert squid..."

Sounds like Troma to me...

Mangamax · 21 January, 2004, 03:45:50 AM

Pah! Only one giant squid for me...

Link: http://www.toonarific.com/s/squiddlydiddly-pics.html" target="_blank">BigSquid

Art · 21 January, 2004, 03:59:55 AM

Bah, they should show the one with the half-man, half-shark, that's class that one.

The Amstor Computer · 21 January, 2004, 04:11:30 AM

"Bah, they should show the one with the half-man, half-shark, that's class that one."

Creature (or, if you're reading the book, White Shark)

The SFX in the TV movie were surprisingly good, and it was kind of fun, even if it did drop the whole Nazi experimentation angle & perpetuate one of the more irritating biological myths (ontogeny begets phylogeny)

Mangamax · 21 January, 2004, 04:14:15 AM

"Slimer" by Harry Adam Knight (or John Brosnan in the real world) was a lot of fun with a walking shark-man-thing too.

paulvonscott · 21 January, 2004, 04:27:32 AM

I gave it a miss in the end, mainly I couldn't be bothered and knew it would be two hours waiting to see the squid, but at least I can't be convicted of stealing from this masterwork!

Smiley · 21 January, 2004, 04:37:37 AM

Slimer, filmed as (gulp) Proteus wasn't it?

Pyroxian · 21 January, 2004, 06:38:48 AM

Ah, Slimer - a fun book. I remember reading that in my early teens. I've managed to track down the other Harry Adam Knight books I read then (fungus and Carnosaur - did he do any more?), but Slimer still eludes me...

Steve

The Amstor Computer · 21 January, 2004, 06:47:10 AM

Steve:

A quick search turns up "Worm", "Death Spore", and "Bedlam". I'm pretty sure that's all there is.

esoteric ed · 21 January, 2004, 07:29:08 AM

Did someone mention JAWS?............ ;-)

Ed