
Surface(2005)
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.


“They said it was safe to go back in the water. They were wrong.”
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.

William Petersen
Whip Dalton

Karen Sillas
Lt. Kathryn Marcus

Charles Martin Smith
Schuyler Graves

Ronald Guttman
Dr. Herbert Talley

Missy Crider
Dana Dalton

Sterling Macer Jr.
Mike Newcombe

A.J. Johnson
Nell Newcombe

Larry Drake
Lucas Coven

Murray Bartlett
Christopher Lane

Laura Vazquez
Hadley
The Beast is a sci-fi & fantasy series that first aired in 1996 exploring themes of sea, based on novel or book, monster, creature feature, giant squid. Created by Peter Benchley, it stars William Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith. Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.
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