April 18, 2019, Rifftrax Live presented their 28th live simulcast. Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett riffed the short "McGruff's Drug Alert" and the feature "Octaman". ("Octaman", "McGruff's Drug Alert", Rifftrax Live, Event)
The film goes from day to night constantly, the script is a loose adaptation from the writers classic “Creature From the Black Lagoon”, the acting is barely passable, but I think the ‘Octaman’ is brilliant! Fun B-movie. One of the classic B-indies.
A barely-coherent plot, full of bad clichés and stereotypes, shot mostly in the dark and on the cheapest film stock money couldn't afford, plus some creature effects that are pretty laughable, but not entertaining enough to compensate for the tedium.
Random 1970's genre films never feel like real movies they feel like the shit characters in an actual movie would be watching that the audience sees for like 5 - 10 seconds.