Doc Rotten's Movie Monsters of 2010: Sharktopus

For each weekday throughout December, Doc Rotten will be looking back at 2010 examining 20 Movie Monsters of the year. Check back each day and rate how successful the monster worked on the big screen, DVD or BluRay. On December 31, we'll look at all 20 Monsters in order of their popularity. Let's take a look at today's Movie Monster of 2010.

Roger Corman produces a Sy-Fy channel classic directed by Declan O’Brien called Shartopus. A brilliant combination of shark and octopus, as the title infers, the monster is as cheesy as it sounds constructed from subpar CGI special effect the only way Sy-Fy channel seems to know how. But, that’s also what makes it so … fun. It’s preposterous, from the story to the acting to the dreadful special effects. They all combine to make a whole that is better than the sum of its parts. A stand out of a stable of such beasties (Mega Pirahna, Gateroid, Dinocroc, Supergator, the list goes on and on), Sharktopus is a spectacular creation - a shark head and torso with the tail(s) of an octopus, all eight limbs. Throughout the picture, it gets to chomp on the cast, leaping out of the water onto boats, dry lands or in the air to snatch a Bungee jumpers dangling from her line high above the water. Brilliant.