The Beast is a 1996 made for TV movie starring William Petersen, Karen Sillas and Charles Martin Smith. The movie is based on the 1991 novel Beast by Jaws author Peter Benchley. The film is about a giant squid that attacks and kills several people when its food supply becomes scarce and its offspring is killed.
The film begins when a couple disappears while having a romantic night out on a yacht. The next day, local fisherman Whip Dalton (William...
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The Beast is a 1996 made for TV movie starring William Petersen, Karen Sillas and Charles Martin Smith. The movie is based on the 1991 novel Beast by Jaws author Peter Benchley. The film is about a giant squid that attacks and kills several people when its food supply becomes scarce and its offspring is killed.
The film begins when a couple disappears while having a romantic night out on a yacht. The next day, local fisherman Whip Dalton (William Petersen) finds the empty lifeboat from the missing yacht and inside is a large claw. Whip sends the claw to a university to be analyzed and it ends up in the hands of marine biologists Dr. Herbert Talley (Ronald Guttman), who comes to Grave’s Point claiming it is from the tentacle of an Architeuthis Dux. The island harbor master Schuyler Graves (Charles Martin Smith) tries to hire Whip to kill the squid, but he refuses so Graves sends out Lucas Coven (Larry Drake) instead. Coven succeeds in slaying the squid and the carcass is promptly sold...
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