I bet this film was genuinely scary back in 1955 in a dark auditorium with powerful audio. I bet most people's first experience at a 'creature feature' was quite a fright! 😱

They animated this perfectly

This was on TCM channel today. Very impressed with the movie.

We'll never forget the 90's montages and graphics))

Honestly, the effects look really good for the time

My dad showed me this movie when i was a kid and i loved it, looking back now it really was campy but it still brings a smile. Thanks for posting this clip

Kraken then: *destroying the city* Kraken now: *H E N T A I*

Harryhausen has inspired so many filmmakers and visual effects artists working in the business today. I actually was privileged to meet him once and see some of his creatures used in the movies - even got a picture taken with him. Just a great memory.

As someone who is deeply scared, I mean extremely afraid of octopuses. This is my first time watching a movie of an octopus attack. I’m 26 years old I never thought my I would see something like this in my life…! I watched this to confront my big fears… over octopuses!!

these vintage scifi flicks will live forever and way better than the garbage today

Still the best giant octopus film I’ve ever seen!

3:32 what are those flamethrowers

Harryhausen is awsome, this movie is awsome my ass is jerky this is the smoothist Stop-Motion Animation u can get & it still holds up against CGI today. Stop-Motion is better then CGI. Harryhausen is the master!

Whatever Ray in his movies did is the best example of analog vfx and cgi

As if San Francisco doesn't already have enough problems.

Merci beaucoup par cette magique de l'écran!

OMG! Best video EVER!!!!! WHOOOO! I realy love it!

I got to tell man my favorite scene in this movie is the the flame thrower scene when the combat troops are burning the he'll out of his tenticle I love it !

To paraphrase a famous line from MST3000... people in the 1950's just don't know how to run!!! Love this movie when it first was released!!!

This film is really good. The monster films from the 50s are so cool! BTW has this film been colourised? I'm certain I saw a colour version of this on Sci-Fi Channel not long ago.

This thang scared the shit out of me. I had change my britches twice. Talk about stink? Good God. Smelled like my 2nd grade girl friend.

I remember this movie watching in tv 1980 year

0:26 Hey! I’m filin’ a grievance against this scab with the Longshoreman Union Local 10!

Good morning I hope that you had a wonderful day I can watch those Sinbad movies all day long and the Cyclops haking time they were really good movies also the monsters look so much alive

Also that’s a thing a grandad will like 👨🏽‍🦳

This is a great movie. You'll see some stock footage used in other "monster" movies, but so what. Old "wrinkle-neck" Kenneth Tobey plays a navy sex machine/monster slayer and plays it straight. The love story is corny. My favorite line..."Life Boat...men in it."

One of Harryhuasen's finest. I couldn't help a chuckle seeing cars calmly driving up and down the road with the tentacles waving above them.

great classic!

Not saying id like to be food but the krakens my favorite sea monster

Actually this cost alot loss then any current film including The Pirates Of The Carribean Films. Was done on a low-budget Harryhausen actually took off two Tentacles to save some money because of the budget so it only has 6 not 8. It doesn't spoil the film though. But the Stop-Motion Technique is alot harder & painstaking then today's CGI.

that is a backstory of kraken from the pirates of the Caribbean

You guys on these comments disgusted me with your negative comments Do you know how hard it is to make these kind of vitage CGI movies long time This is hard work to make this octopus realistic and the music is really epic I love it You all have no shame Hate when you all say negative stuff about it

1:14 Why do I like the music in this bit

Beneath the sea there is solid dirt and rock.

The original one is actually from 1955

Man, these special effects have held up well over the years.

This must have been the inspiration for Toho’s Giant Octopus

I've seen enough anime to know where this is going.

at 1:04 while octopus attack the car on street sill move normally

Notice that there is still quite a lot of traffic passing the Ferry Building. Surely if there was a giant octopus down the road the police would have a roadblock in place.

@lst1195 he was a genius it took hours and hours of stop motion animation to get it just right he worked his ass off for his work

Miércoles, qué tremenda película del monstruo tremendo

This Is A Science Fiction Horror Masterpiece A Perfect Sci-fi Horror Classic!

Timeless movie!.. awesome 👍🎥

Was part of that footage in the streets stock footage from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms? It looked like it. I love Harryhausen's work though. There were alot of B-movies of the time, but the ones he made the effects for were actually good ones. Some don't even need to be called B-movies like Jason and the Argonauts (plotwise and effectswise anyway). He definately was a stop-motion genius. Not liek today where it's all computers.

They must be given the absolute appreciation of their courage to keep away and defeat the Kraken 3:32

Who would be the copyright owner for this? I’d really like to use it as a moving background for a music video of a percussion ensemble piece called Kraken.

Kraken looks scary

When calamari attacks!!

Probably the only good scene in the whole movie,love how the cars are still driving even with a tentacle across the road,common mistake in many of these 50's giant monster movies.

Hey when i have no name at youtube i watch this

This is why u shouldnt go in the ocean at 3AM

brilliant!!

Kraken is the most original monster

19s monster movie just hit in a creepy way unlike now movies

This was cool for its time. Adjusted for inflation it probably cost many more times to make than the computer-generated kraken in Pirates 2.

Kraken the giant Sea monster

This is like the oldest show off the octopus or karken

Yep it is definitely the kraken

Giant Octopus that attacks city. They are running. the sound the one using flame thrower for the octopus, looks like firetruck

Funniest fucking thing I've seen all day. Thanks for posting.

It Shouldn't Have.

That is the octopus black friday

The very first time i watch this video happen in march 25 2023

This Octopus must have eyes/ears on it's tentacles with some of the stuff it seems to be able to see.

I remember when I watch this as little kid and thought it was real

is that the kraken?

One of my favorite of all time black and white creature movie here, I didn't like it when they did it in color. I think that the black and white version, which the original is better

Wonder this film be like if it was a Giant Shark instead of a Giant Octopus?

Green kraken destroy San fransico ? (Laughs) what kind of type of kraken ?

cant you make mre of this part 2 pls

There was one part of the movie where when the two guys get hit by the huge tentacle and one of them says look out that was cut out of this video for some strange reason wonder why.

Uh oh is van Helsing controlling that thing ?

They made a movie about the kraken? Nice

My favorite sea maonster is bemoth he is the best sea monster that one is my favorite sea monster

I think it's a GIANT kraken!

The kraken is my favorite as well

I'm not sure how they drive back the octopus (a water creature) with flamethrowers, but then I was raised with Pokemon. What do I know.

Why does the background music sound like Godzilla music?

really a kraken the big squid

i saw this on Godzilla 1998 at the store when the guys are robbering the store it showed it lolol

so what does it do at 2:55? does it just attack the people or do they disappear?

Disney got nothing on this animation 😭🤣

Octopus can’t breath in when they are on land

The Kraken answering Ghidorah's roar

ANTIGO ESSE FILME CARAMBA FAZ UM TEPAO PASOU ÉPICO QUERIA TER ASSISTIDO ❤AMO FILMES ANTIGOS KRAKEN ☇🙃

1955-1988

That is one huge octopus sheesh it even lifted a train and destroyed a police car

I see a scary octopus breaking the ship

can someone do a remake of this film?

Notice that traffic is just driving normally past the ocean terminal as the octopus goes under.

WOOOOOW!!!

Wow that a big kraken

@balrog13571 50s B-Movies used a lot of stock footage from other movies, the only thing that makes Beast from 20,000 Fathams, It came from Beneath the Sea and 20 Million Miles to Earth worth watching is Ray Harryhausen's stop motion creations, had it not been for Harryhausen's talents they would be just more 50s B-Movies about Aliens and Nuclear Technology gone bad

Kraken its no bigger in a building 😡😡😡😡😡

This is the most old school sexist movie I've ever seen and I love it. Don't blame us blame Hollywood!

i have the colour version. b/w better though

MANY HUMAN: RUUN!!!!!!! ITS A KRAKEN!!!!!! KRAKEN: *KILL ALL*

Algun dia va a existir el kraken en Perú

Oof it didn’t break police car IT BROKE BUILDING