Saw this amazing piece of cinema quite recently (on a DVD of course – I never saw it advertised for cinema).

The film features 80s pop star Deborah Gibson in this treasure trove of acting and special effects excellence. In it, she plays a marine biologist who gets caught in the crossfire between two battling enemies – a mega shark and a giant octopus.

The mega shark can jump out of the water and catch commercial airliners, which it destroys not for food, but, just because it can.

The octopus does the same to a fighter plane at one point, but it just bats the plane out of the sky with its tentacle.

The story also features an utterly unconvincing love story and a fatherly american trying to put on an irish accent. There is nothing in the plot that really necessitates the character being irish at all.

The best thing about the story is the unintentional sub plot, where the actors find themselves unable to hide the fact that they all hate each other from the camera. As such, while the script contains love stories and a professor being proud of his star student, but the body language of the actors suggests that Debbie Gibson has no attraction at all to the love interest and considers the professor to be a vile, lecherous old man.

See it if you can. I think they’ve got it in ASDA for about 3 quid.