Sharktopus is a 2010 American science fiction

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...

 film directed by Declan O'Brien

Declan O'Brien

Declan O'Brien is President of Utopia Pictures & Television as well as a writer and producer whose most recent work was writing, along with the help of Jeff Hare and Kevin Moore, for the Sci Fi Pictures original film, Savage Planet.- Biography :...

, starring Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts

Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...

. It is a Syfy

Syfy

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 production.

Plot

The U.S. Navy commissions a group known as "Blue Water" to genetically engineer a half-shark

Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....

, half-octopus

Octopus

The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms, and like other cephalopods they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms...

 for combat. During a demonstration off of Santa Monica

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...

, the beast escapes the control of its creators and makes its way to Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican balneario resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas.The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 255,725 making it the sixth-largest city in the state of Jalisco...

. Hunted by Blue Water and a television crew, the monster attacks numerous beach-goers.

Cast

• Eric Roberts
  Eric Roberts
  Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...
  
   as Dr. Nathan Sands
• Sara Malakul Lane as Nicole Sands
• Kerem Bursin as Andy Flynn
• Héctor Jiménez
  Héctor Jiménez
  Héctor Jiménez is a Mexican actor best known for playing Esqueleto, Nacho's tag team partner in the movie Nacho Libre. He is also Mr. Tumnus in Epic Movie and the cashier in Wild Hogs. He worked in a theater company in Tijuana for eight years before moving to Mexico City where he worked for a...
  
   as Bones
• Liv Boughn as Stacy Everheart
• Shandi Finnessey
  Shandi Finnessey
  Shandi Ren Finnessey is an American beauty queen, model, television hostess, and actress. She is best known for winning the Miss USA title, as Miss Missouri USA. She previously held the title of Miss Missouri 2002 and competed in Miss America where she won a preliminary award...
  
   as Stephie
• Peter Nelson as Commander Cox (credited as Calvin Persson)
• Ralph Garman
  Ralph Garman
  Ralph Garman is an American actor, comedian, and radio host best known as the host of The Joe Schmo Show, for his voice work in Family Guy, and as the entertainment reporter and impressionist for the Kevin and Bean morning show on Los Angeles radio station, KROQ-FM...
  
   as Captain Jack
• Clem Hansen as Male with Bikini Girl (uncredited)
• Lindsay Conklin as Bikini Girl on the beach
• Roger Corman
  Roger Corman
  Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
  
  as Beach Bum (uncredited)

Reception

Sharktopus received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
Horrornews.net said "Full of Kickassitude you can't go wrong with the cheesy goodness covered in awesome sauce that is Sharktopus!"

Sequel

In an interview with Flixist.com, producer Roger Corman said that he may do a sequel to the film.