Tentacles... why?

Not all sci-fi and horror has tentacles...


But, I will say that when tentacles do appear, it's usually in a sci-fi or horror
Let's face it, nothing else tends to work with them... unless it's romance... and if a "romance" movie has tentacles, it's usually Hentai.

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Some recent sci.fi do have et's with tentacles [the Mist] depicted.

I'm on board with the Lovecraftian thing, though personally Lovecraft doesn't do much to me [he had dome interesting stuff... but with tentacles]

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Well, movies like The Mist are fantasy-horror.
The Mist is a decent movie tbh though, it's got a huge psychological edge when Mrs Carmody goes full-on nutball... just some of the CGI is a bit skewy.

Star Wars has been on a pretty big tentacle kick with their recent films lately.

Perhaps it'll be revealed that Snoke is an octopus.

I kind of like it that way. It makes the movie feel like a throwback to the 50's-70's kind of horror I love.


Speaking of which, c'mon...It Came From Beneath The Sea with it's bargain basement octopus? That was COOL when I was growing up.

I wouldn't be surprised

I'm a huge fan of H P Lovecraft and so always chuckle when tentacles are in movies (like the Arrival) as all my friends tell me I HAVE TO SEE IT as it has Lovecraftian undertones lol
For me I find tentacles a much more unsettling choice not because of the Great Old Ones (Be it Cthulhu, Shud M'ell or any more of the Mythos) but because the lack of bones allows for a much more strange and inhuman movement than a clawed hand or somesuch. There's just something damned eerie about an appendage that squirms and writhes unbidden and can wrap you up like a Boa and drag you to your doom.

i'm sure someone has already said this but i'm really surprised this thread isn't about tentacle porn- anime.

Grabbers

Nah. And it's Hentai

I know what anime-porn is called, i meant that tentacles are often featured in non-porn anime as well so i was separating the two.

Thought this would be like the Moe thread.

Sorry man, wasn't implying you didn't.

Moe? I'm guessing that's one of SC's threads [just a guess though, he does seem to have a peculiar sense of humor].

It's cool was just clarifying.

Nah, it was Guaps an anime fan here. It wasn't supposed to be funny and just turned into a really dull endless argument.

Ouch.

Well, don't expect me to go into dull endless arguments. I'm rather to the point.

Ah, Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (1814 I think).

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But does "Bride of the Monster" REALLY qualify as either sci-fi OR horror?

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