white pongo

This is awful. Really bad. Makes the original seem good. There is actually more (unconvincing) Octo in this one, but it never does anything interesting. And then they tag on some DAYLIGHT "inspired" disaster movie stuff at the end. Stay away. In Japan the video is known as OCTOPUS IN NEW YORK (it attacks Manhattan by the way, well actually it doesn't).

I love this. Short subject documenting a twist/ surf music demonstration at a fashionable high-society Chicago nightclub (apparantely). When everybody gets into it and even the old Chef comes out of the kitchen twisting, you'll have a big grin on your face. And just watch Joe Cavalier's wild twisting. Brilliant. Available on Johnny Legend's TEENAGE UFO ROCK N ROLL MONSTER SHOW comp.tape (which comes highly recommended).

This actually played for a while about 2 years ago at a theatre here in Tokyo. The English title was CREATURES FROM THE ABYSS and the Japanese title translated as OBJECT X. It was an English language print and watching this late 70's/ early 80's-look trash in a theatre was a nice experience that made me wish I could have experienced 42nd st. in it's heyday. At the time I thought it was a new release and that it copied the British PROTEUS. But if it was made in '94, I guess the opposite is true.