It was “armed” and dangerous!

Wild footage shows the moment an octopus latched onto a fisherman’s face with an eight-armed death grip — forcing him to club the critter to avoid suffocating.

Jesser Cervantes was on wooden dinghy near the Philippines last month when he reeled in the spunky sea creature and it suddenly latched onto his face, according to the UK Sun.

He desperately tried to peel off the tentacle-waving terror as it spread around his head — at one point covering his mouth with its powerful suckers and refusing to budge, footage shows.

To escape the sucky situation, he grabbed a cut bamboo stem and repeatedly hit the octopus to loosen…

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