''Bermuda Tentacles'' is an American
made-for-television
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science fiction
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horror film directed by
Nick Lyon
Nick Lyon (born April 25, 1970) is a Los Angeles-based film director and screenwriter. A native of Pocatello, Idaho, he spent 9 years in Germany where he attended the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
In Ger ...
. It stars
Linda Hamilton
Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress. She played Sarah Connor in the ''Terminator'' film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1987–1990), for which she was nominat ...
and features an ensemble cast of
Trevor Donovan
Trevor Donovan Neubauer (born October 11, 1978), known professionally as Trevor Donovan, is an American actor and model. He is best known for his role as Teddy Montgomery on the hit teen drama television series '' 90210.''
Life and career
Donova ...
,
Mýa
Mya Marie Harrison (; born October 10, 1979), (stylized as Mýa), is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Born into a musical family, she studied ballet, jazz, and tap dance as a child. Initially, Mýa began her career as a VJ ...
,
John Savage and
Jamie Kennedy
James Harvey Kennedy (born May 25, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He has played Randy Meeks in the ''Scream'' franchise (1996–2000) and a multitude of characters in ''The Jamie Kennedy Experiment'' (2002–2004) on The WB. His othe ...
.
The movie premiered April 12, 2014 on the
Syfy
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channel and garnered largely negative reviews.
Plot
When
Air Force One
Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. In common parlance, the term is used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used ...
goes down over the
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an urban legend focused on a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterio ...
, the
Navy
A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...
sends its best rescue team. A terrible
storm
A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere
An atmosphere () is a layer of gas or layers of gases that envelop a planet, and is held in place by the gravity of the planetary body. A planet retains an atmos ...
forces the president to leave in his escape pod, which ends up 7000 metres below the sea. But before they can save the President, the team awakens a series of
tentacles
In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work main ...
from a monstrous underwater ogrot, which threatens
America
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's entire Eastern Seaboard and, ultimately, the world.
Cast
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Linda Hamilton
Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress. She played Sarah Connor in the ''Terminator'' film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1987–1990), for which she was nominat ...
as Admiral Hansen
*
Trevor Donovan
Trevor Donovan Neubauer (born October 11, 1978), known professionally as Trevor Donovan, is an American actor and model. He is best known for his role as Teddy Montgomery on the hit teen drama television series '' 90210.''
Life and career
Donova ...
as Trip Oliver
*
Mýa
Mya Marie Harrison (; born October 10, 1979), (stylized as Mýa), is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Born into a musical family, she studied ballet, jazz, and tap dance as a child. Initially, Mýa began her career as a VJ ...
as Lieutenant Plummer
*
John Savage as President DeSteno
*
Jamie Kennedy
James Harvey Kennedy (born May 25, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He has played Randy Meeks in the ''Scream'' franchise (1996–2000) and a multitude of characters in ''The Jamie Kennedy Experiment'' (2002–2004) on The WB. His othe ...
as Dr. Zimmer
* Richard Whiten as Lieutenant Commander Barclay
*
Ricco Ross
Ricco Ross is an American actor.
Life and career
Born at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, he is the fifth of eight children, and in addition has three step sisters and another brother from his father's first marriage. He first acted ...
as Captain Phillips
*
Jeff Rector
Jeff Rector (born September 12, 1958) is an American actor. He has appeared in over 60 feature films and television programs. On 28 April 2012 he hosted the launch party of the Burbank International Film Festival. He has an identical twin brot ...
as Captain Warren
*
Robert Blanche
Robert Clinton Blanche (March 30, 1962 – January 3, 2020) was an American film and television actor.
Early life
Blanche was born in Pomona, California, and raised in Oregon.
Career
Beginning his film and television career in 1994, Blanche ...
as Captain Dave Williams
* Angelique Cinelu as Ensign Sanchez
* Luke White as Stephen Hondo
* Stephanie Cantu as Riva
* Yorick Veenma as Colonel Poppe De Boer
* James Craig as Aunt Penelope
* William McMahon as Fitz
* Darren Anthony Thomas as Greg Elfman
* Craig Blair as C.P.O. Vincent
Home media
''Bermuda Tentacles'' was released to
DVD
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on September 9, 2014.
Reception
Writing for online
website
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''HorrorNews.Net'', Shawn Handling gave the movie a highly negative review and concluded, "I think it’s one of the worst that has been produced and should have been sunk with the rest of those missing ships."
References
External links
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2014 television films
2014 films
Syfy original films
2010s science fiction horror films
2014 horror films
American monster movies
Giant monster films
American horror television films
Films set in the Bermuda Triangle
The Asylum films
Films about Air Force One
Films directed by Nick Lyon
2010s American films
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