Gandalf and Frodo aren't even sure whether it's one creature or several.
Bel-Shamaroth from The Colour of Magic.Return of the Jedi also features the Sarlacc, which is only ever seen as a giant, tentacle-filled mouth (and in the Special Edition an inner mouth with a beak) that grab victims and drag them down into the mouth to eat. One of the Gamorrean guards escorting him beats the thing back. In Return of the Jedi, when Threepio is being led down into the dungeon, something's tentacle emerges from a cell and grabs his neck.Shown in the EU to be a squid-like monstrous alien octopus. We only ever see one of its eyestalks pope out of the rubbish, and then one of its tentacles, the latter of which grabs Luke and drags him underneath the surface. In A New Hope, there's the garbage monster, the Dianoga.Audiences doesn't see what kind of monster said claw is attached to, but there's a tie-in artbook called The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island where turns out said claw belongs to a Giant Crab called a Deplector. The 2005 adaptation of King Kong (2005) has a gigantic crustacean claw sticking out a hole and grabbing an unfortunate sailor during the recreation of the original film's Spider-pit sequence.An earlier scene shows one of the characters being grabbed by an arm that bursts through a door window.
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Grave Encounters has one scene where the title ghosthunting crew is attacked by a series of ghostly black arms reaching out of the walls and ceiling.Conan the Barbarian (2011) has said barbarian fighting the tentacles of an unseen Eldritch Abomination.The final shot of the film shows a monstrous arm reaching out of the ground, which is all that's shown of the Ancient Ones that are rising to wipe out humanity. In The Cabin in the Woods, writhing branches reaching out of an elevator is all that's seen of the Evil Molesting Tree.See also Combat Tentacles, Naughty Tentacles, and Tentacle Rope. Supertrope of Giant Foot of Stomping and Giant Hands of Doom subtrope of Organ Autonomy. Sea creatures often have these, especially Krakens and Leviathans. Type 2: While the whole creature is shown later (thus killing the suspense part), its appendages are shown before and moving independently on their own, as if they were a different monster altogether.Type 1: Only the limb/tentacle is shown and interacted with, but the rest of the body remains a total mystery.In case of giant Man-Eating Plant the plant itself may act as a tentacle of sort. Sometimes it even looks like the tentacle is the actual monster. Of course it's not strictly limited to tentacled monsters: It can be played with a gigantic arm or leg belonging to an unseen beast, but usually Stock Ness Monster types are quite popular. This is usually played, as said above, for suspense and possibly horror. However, whether for deliberate suspense or lack of budget, the tentacled monster will never appear, even if the heroes manages to hack off/harm the tentacle. The characters of a story are confronted by a large tentacle or appendage of an unseen, bigger monster who's threatening them or binding them where they stand.
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