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A 1996 made for TV-movie adaptation of Peter Benchley's book, Beast. The film makes some radical changes from the book, while maintaining its basic plot: a giant squid is terrorizing a community and must be stopped.
Starring William Petersen.
Tropes Found In This Work Include:[]
- Canon Foreigner: Schuyler Graves.
- Composite Character: Kathryn Marcus is a composite of Marcus Sharp (Whip's best friend in the book) and Marcus' dead girlfriend (and Gwen Stacy) Karen.
- Death by Adaptation: Talley survived in the book.
- Inverted, ironically, with Kathryn, who survives even though both of the characters she's comprised of are killed in the book.
- Film of the Book
- Kill It with Fire: How the squid is dealt with.
- Mama Bear: The squid turns out to be a mother, and gets very mad when her child is killed.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The mother squid in the second half goes on a rampage after the death of its child.