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THE OCTALUS

REALM/HABITAT: Deep Ocean Trenches/ Marianna's trench ect. Comes up to surface during pressure changes in ocean currents, mostly during hurricanes and underwater earthquakes, or volcanos.

MEDIA ORIGIN: Fie and Ice animated film 1983. Deep Rising film 1998.

The Octalus is the main antagonist of the 1998 horror film Deep Rising.

It is a huge sea creature of unknown origin, which eats nearly every passenger and crew member on the luxury cruise ship Argonautica, on which the film mostly takes place.

Its vocal sound effects were provided by Malcolm Fife.

Biography...

While unknown when and where the Octalus came from, the opening montage, shows multiple sunken ships on the ocean floor, all from different centuries of mankind, suggesting it may have originated hundreds or possibly thousands of years ago.

In the ocean, besides ambushing marine vessels when they get the chance, they normally eat whales, large and small ones, this is due to many whales diving deep in search of food such as giant squids like the Colossus or Archatoothis squids.

However these dives also leave them open to ambush from a vastly larger cephalopod, the Octalus.

Still, some whales such as Orca Killer Whales and Pilot Whales have learned to ward off the Octalus and their meandering tentacles by using barrages of loud echolocation volleys that seems to hurt the delicate insides of its tendrils.

Its normal habitat is the deep ocean, but it has the ability to ascend and adjust to the dramatic change in pressure.

This is probably during ocean current changes from climate disturbances, such as earthquake or hurricanes.

In Fire and Ice, the creature is a different sub-species of Octalus (as its name suggests) and the Octalus set up home under the tributaries of a salt water lagoon.

When Larn falls in the Lagoon, one of its tendrils senses him and attacks.

In Deep Rising, the monster senses another boat on the surface of the sea and attacks it, destroying the vessel and leaves it "dead in the water".

A small group of heavily armed mercenaries, who want to rob the Argonautica and sink it afterwards with torpedoes, finds the ship and climb into it, just to find out that nobody is on it.

They team up with some survivors of the monster attack, which includes the captain of the ship and a thief.

The monster kills them off one by one and finally meets its end in an explosion caused by the ship of the mercenaries getting rammed into the luxury cruise ship.

Despite its death, the Octalus may have not been the only one of its kind, as a loud roar (possibly from another Octalus) is heard by the surviving characters when they arrived on a nearby volcanic island.

Appearance...

The Octalus' body consists of many long, slimy tentacles with mouths on the end of them, and a body with a big mouth and two big eyes.

The tentacles can also close their mouths and are arguably one of the most fascinating parts of the dangerous sea monster.

It is unknown if the tentacles act of their own to serve the main body, or if the Octalus has full control of them.

The tentacles seem to know where their prey hides, and they are extremely agile, which leads to the conclusion that they have some sort of sensory organs, like small eyes, or antennae with which they can see.

The creature itself seems pretty smart and penetrative, because it forces its prey to move to a place where it can easily get them, as seen in the movie, where it herds the protagonists on the bow of the ship, which is filled with remains of the crew and passengers.

It is noted in the movie that the sea monster seems to suck out the body fluids of its victims, but does not really eat them.

The gargantuan beast seems to puke the rest of its victims out, which would explain the tons of corpses in the bow of the ship.

The dangerous creature also seems to be able to breathe underwater and on land, which does not really make sense, since it seems to lurk at the bottom of the ocean, where it does not need to have that ability.

REMARKS:

Octalus are a type of deep sea cephalopods that grow to immense sizes, it is not known how big they can get, but some estimate at least 300 feet.

The Octalus also has "extended sentient tentacles".

This means they have long tentacles that have the ability to stretch four or five times their original length, much like an earthworm.

In this sense, they are similar to the "tentacles from Planet X" featured in the MIST film, though evolved under very different circumstances.

The tentacles, are more like the tendrils of a jellyfish, rather than a mollusk, but act in the same way.

They can sense prey from primitive vestigial eyes and claw-like antennae adorned to their tentacle's mouths, which shows that in some part, they have a mind of their own, that is later serviced to the head of the giant octopus.

The Octalus is not amphibious and cannot move much on land, so the roar at the end of the Deep Rising film, accompanied by a trees being pushed aside, is from some giant land-based monster, which at least in some reports, suggests a tribute to King Kong himself, since he also fought giant octopus in his previous films.

The Octalus sends its "tendrils" through any ship it attacks, and over centuries of predation of marine vessels, this "kraken" has evolved a means for it tentacles to weed out and ambush prey, as they hide for cover.

This adds to the horror of this Lovecraftian monstrosity.

However, it clearly does not eat the hard parts of the prey it ingests, and these tendrils of it, can process the prey very quickly, slurping out all the soft parts and organs for food, while discarding the husk and skeletons of its victims.

This bloody regurgitation and slurping up of its body fluids, is done much in spider-like fashion.

As in the view of speculative evolution, the Octalus is very specialized cephalopod that should be regarded as an advanced intelligent and predatory Octopus species, and some indeed, confess that the beasts must have had a very similar ancestor to the Giant Pacific Octopus of modern day oceans.

As most cephalopods are quite intelligent for their species, this only adds to the terrifying manners in which they hunt their prey.

Description
THE OCTALUS

REALM/HABITAT: Deep Ocean Trenches/ Marianna's trench ect. Comes up to surface during pressure changes in ocean currents, mostly during hurricanes and underwater earthquakes, or volcanos.

MEDIA ORIGIN: Fie and Ice animated film 1983. Deep Rising film 1998.

The Octalus is the main antagonist of the 1998 horror film Deep Rising.

It is a huge sea creature of unknown origin, which eats nearly every passenger and crew member on the luxury cruise ship Argonautica, on which the film mostly takes place.

Its vocal sound effects were provided by Malcolm Fife.

Biography...

While unknown when and where the Octalus came from, the opening montage, shows multiple sunken ships on the ocean floor, all from different centuries of mankind, suggesting it may have originated hundreds or possibly thousands of years ago.

In the ocean, besides ambushing marine vessels when they get the chance, they normally eat whales, large and small ones, this is due to many whales diving deep in search of food such as giant squids like the Colossus or Archatoothis squids.

However these dives also leave them open to ambush from a vastly larger cephalopod, the Octalus.

Still, some whales such as Orca Killer Whales and Pilot Whales have learned to ward off the Octalus and their meandering tentacles by using barrages of loud echolocation volleys that seems to hurt the delicate insides of its tendrils.

Its normal habitat is the deep ocean, but it has the ability to ascend and adjust to the dramatic change in pressure.

This is probably during ocean current changes from climate disturbances, such as earthquake or hurricanes.

In Fire and Ice, the creature is a different sub-species of Octalus (as its name suggests) and the Octalus set up home under the tributaries of a salt water lagoon.

When Larn falls in the Lagoon, one of its tendrils senses him and attacks.

In Deep Rising, the monster senses another boat on the surface of the sea and attacks it, destroying the vessel and leaves it "dead in the water".

A small group of heavily armed mercenaries, who want to rob the Argonautica and sink it afterwards with torpedoes, finds the ship and climb into it, just to find out that nobody is on it.

They team up with some survivors of the monster attack, which includes the captain of the ship and a thief.

The monster kills them off one by one and finally meets its end in an explosion caused by the ship of the mercenaries getting rammed into the luxury cruise ship.

Despite its death, the Octalus may have not been the only one of its kind, as a loud roar (possibly from another Octalus) is heard by the surviving characters when they arrived on a nearby volcanic island.

Appearance...

The Octalus' body consists of many long, slimy tentacles with mouths on the end of them, and a body with a big mouth and two big eyes.

The tentacles can also close their mouths and are arguably one of the most fascinating parts of the dangerous sea monster.

It is unknown if the tentacles act of their own to serve the main body, or if the Octalus has full control of them.

The tentacles seem to know where their prey hides, and they are extremely agile, which leads to the conclusion that they have some sort of sensory organs, like small eyes, or antennae with which they can see.

The creature itself seems pretty smart and penetrative, because it forces its prey to move to a place where it can easily get them, as seen in the movie, where it herds the protagonists on the bow of the ship, which is filled with remains of the crew and passengers.

It is noted in the movie that the sea monster seems to suck out the body fluids of its victims, but does not really eat them.

The gargantuan beast seems to puke the rest of its victims out, which would explain the tons of corpses in the bow of the ship.

The dangerous creature also seems to be able to breathe underwater and on land, which does not really make sense, since it seems to lurk at the bottom of the ocean, where it does not need to have that ability.

REMARKS:

Octalus are a type of deep sea cephalopods that grow to immense sizes, it is not known how big they can get, but some estimate at least 300 feet.

The Octalus also has "extended sentient tentacles".

This means they have long tentacles that have the ability to stretch four or five times their original length, much like an earthworm.

In this sense, they are similar to the "tentacles from Planet X" featured in the MIST film, though evolved under very different circumstances.

The tentacles, are more like the tendrils of a jellyfish, rather than a mollusk, but act in the same way.

They can sense prey from primitive vestigial eyes and claw-like antennae adorned to their tentacle's mouths, which shows that in some part, they have a mind of their own, that is later serviced to the head of the giant octopus.

The Octalus is not amphibious and cannot move much on land, so the roar at the end of the Deep Rising film, accompanied by a trees being pushed aside, is from some giant land-based monster, which at least in some reports, suggests a tribute to King Kong himself, since he also fought giant octopus in his previous films.

The Octalus sends its "tendrils" through any ship it attacks, and over centuries of predation of marine vessels, this "kraken" has evolved a means for it tentacles to weed out and ambush prey, as they hide for cover.

This adds to the horror of this Lovecraftian monstrosity.

However, it clearly does not eat the hard parts of the prey it ingests, and these tendrils of it, can process the prey very quickly, slurping out all the soft parts and organs for food, while discarding the husk and skeletons of its victims.

This bloody regurgitation and slurping up of its body fluids, is done much in spider-like fashion.

As in the view of speculative evolution, the Octalus is very specialized cephalopod that should be regarded as an advanced intelligent and predatory Octopus species, and some indeed, confess that the beasts must have had a very similar ancestor to the Giant Pacific Octopus of modern day oceans.

As most cephalopods are quite intelligent for their species, this only adds to the terrifying manners in which they hunt their prey.