idea for a film
a lonely professor falls in love with a beautiful girl who parachuted into his lab, he promises her that he will marry her as soon as he finishes his vital experiment. The experiment involves a matter transporter, that has two tube like units, one in which one is transported from the other to.
In his equations and tests everything runs perfectly but he has to use the machine on a human subject, so he puts himself in the transporter.
The lab is filled with monkeys and parrots and a huge fish tank, and in a corner is a large octopus that unknown to the professor has escaped as it was unsettled when the parachutest dropped in.
The Proffessor paces up and down, he is delieriously happy, all his life he has spent working with physics, never once contemplating the mysteries of the heart and the emotions love can bring.
The professor rings his fiancée, 'Sweetheart, everything will be fine, i am testing the equipment now, then we will get married.'
He activates the machine and the lab is filled with a purple light.
However the octopus has crawled into the other chamber and there is a terrible twist in the transporting molecules, resulting in the two beings becoming mixed up. In one chamber lies the Octoman, a human body with octopus properties, the mind of the octopus struggles with bipedal circumstance and restrictions, the strange sexual apparatus and sensory organs.
On the other hand Manpus is a eight tentacle mollusk with human intelligence and mind, desperately trapped in this ultra flexible body, a long way from his girl, he negotiates New York City to get downtown to her apartment, after many adventures he enters her apartment to find her relaxing in the bath, he slides in. Obviously shocked and horrified the girlfriend screams but written upon the skin is the pinkish glow and words 'i love you.' Manpus communicates the misfortunate events and the girl in a tender moment leads Manpus to her bedroom, where she experiences the ultimate sexual encounter. Suddenly she enslaves the Manpus as her pet sex toy, not an ignoble end the Manpus concedes.
Octoman however has to reach his loved one an octopus he met once in his youth drifting along the indian ocean, he escapes the lab and travels towards the Brooklyn bridge, where he jumps into the Hudson river, however he is disgusted by the filth and pollution and ends up washed up on the shore, where he is rescued by a TV executive who offers him his own show. Now propelled into fame and stardom, and all the trappings of hedonism, Octoman, succumbs to a 5000 grand a week coke habit and finds life meaningless and boring but filled with shallow pleasure. The unfulfilled longing within him leads him into a spiritual path and he founds his own religion, a sort of aqua mollusician human belief in divinity through surrender know as, the eight tentacle path.
Years down the time line, Manpus and his girl become devotees of the religion and meet Octoman, they reverse the experiment and revert back to normal life, the scientist sends the octopus back to the indian ocean and the last shot is him swimming into the sunset.