Now, let's consider for a moment what a movie like Jaws would have been - nay, should have been - had its principal creature featured such improved mobility. After this begins a series of attacks by humanoid sea creatures where human males are killed but the females are raped…. Luckily, Jim devises a plan to stop the marauding beasts by spreading gasoline into the bay where the festival is taking place and setting it on fire, cutting off the beasts' way of retreat. Jim's brother is also victimized, prompting Jim to take a personal interest in the matter. Humanoids from the Deep is a pretty mean piece of work that was made with only the purest of exploitative intentions (as was the norm in those days). I don't know why these cheesy rubber monster movies insist on tackling racism and then doing a piss-poor job of it, because it makes all the villager characters in the movie look like ignorant doofuses that are not worth saving. Her best friend Deb (Jackie Debatin) comes by to relax with them on vacation, and the beach community throws a party and insists that the visitors join in the fun. Plot: scientist, ship, exploitation, tentacle, sea, alien parasite, androids, british man, flamethrower, underwater scene. By their very nature, exploitation movies exist to exploit both the audience and their fascination with a thing. Attack of the Beast Creatures1985. Categories 31 Days of Horror V. Regardless of its utilitarian title, it should be stated that Humanoids from the Deep is about humanoids. But he still has a carnival barker's understanding of how to tap into the alligator brain that fans of exploitation films love. Morrow's character comes across as a caricature these days, but I knew guys like that growing up in the 80's so I bet he felt pretty real to contemporary audiences.
Make sure you watch the right version! Doug McClure, as usual in his films, is a reasonable leading man but nothing more, getting the job done but not projecting much charisma. Just add beer and you have a party. The make-up effects are simply disgusting. Plot: monster, shark, mad scientist, fight, swimming, experiment gone awry, animal attack, adventure, creature feature, octopus, werewolf, killer animal... Place: dominican republic. Still, it's interesting to note that, even if it wasn't the first movie to do so, Humanoids from the Deep was a film that raised concerns about the safety of genetically-engineered food long before the media picked up on it. Plot: monster, creature feature, sea, scientist, mutant, nuclear, octopus, alien, sea monster, female nudity, violence, ogre... 37%. You'd think that a movie that features slimy bipedal Salmon-Men sexually assaulting nubile co-eds would handle racism with thoughtfulness and sensitivity, but you'd be wrong. The first demonstration of this trait takes us by surprise: a young, attractive couple is frolicking along the beach, when the boy is pulled underneath the surface and instantaneously disfigured (this action is subsequent to the four times the boy has pretended to be pulled underneath the surface by an unseen monster). This is a fun and fast-paced horror movie sure to to leave any viewer happy. The Strangeness1985. There was a remake in 1996 for Showtime TV. More cynical viewers have taken potshots at the monster makeup here (apparently disappointed the humanoids don't look more like real fishmen), but I've never had a problem with the rubber suits. Look for them in the presented list.
Trivia from the Deep: Also known as "Monster" - Barbara Peeters was the director, but the story goes that many scenes were added later by others, such as the 2nd unit director, to spice up the film. In films that bear even a modicum of directorial finesse, scenes like this are noticeably composed, blocked, or edited—the climax in Humanoids has none of these factors. Story: A scientific team in Mexico discover a pool of unusual baby "octopus-like" specimens. Though the bulk of the story was shot under the direction of Barbara Peeters (including most of the gore), other footage, including the infamous rape scene, was picked up later by Jimmy T. Murakami. Plot: insect, monster, small town, creature feature, motorcycle, sheriff, death, killer animal, exploitation, animal attack, toxic, mutant... Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi. This is where Humanoids from the Deep begins to differ from its predecessors, and as with the monsters that are its subject, its evolution is untempered. It seems that Vic is doing a Boston accent without anybody telling him the movie takes place in Northern California. When promising bigger and better salmon, Dr. Drake conveniently neglected to mention they might also be bipedal and homicidal. At the carnival, the humanoids show up in droves, relentlessly murdering the men and raping every woman they can grab. Lynn Schiller as Peggy Larson.
Nobody knows who plays the villain and its such a one note character, no one cares (his sudden affection for his missing wife at the of the film is beyond unbelievable). As mentioned previously, the director Barbara Peeters would disown her work on Humanoids from the Deep despite its success. The proposition here is that mutated fish - mutated into humanoid lifeforms due to experimental growth hormones by meddling humans - would hunt down and rape female humans in order to propagate the new species. But her experience on Humanoids may help explain why Corman didn't have more women working for him. Things go awry when they begin to find things that... The parasite has the ability to affect people's minds, so survivors can't be certain who is safe and who is infected. The creatures, which evolve amazingly fast, kill the men and rape the women. The movie was originally offered to Joe Dante who turned it down. The rapes themselves are indefensible, but they are incompetently shot so they're impossible to take seriously. They occasionally stop to rip off heads and innards, but the gore effects are so bad that the filmmakers shouldn't have bothered.
Once they get one tagged, they hightail it out of there, completely uninterested in all the monsters still rampaging on the midway! Sometimes it wanted to be a serious thriller, and other times a cartoonish sketch. The monsters are really well made and pretty scary to this day, and the gore still packs a punch. Story: A mad scientist (and apparent former Nazi) unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, gain revenge on those who have spurned him, and kidnap nubile young women to similarly transform so that he can breed. Think how obvious it is what is on the Gill Man's mind when he watches Julie Adams swimming, follows her and mimics her movements in that great 'underwater ballet' scene from The Creature From The Black Lagoon. It opens, for example, with an underwater POV shot, presumably of one of the nefarious creatures of the title, and in short order people begin to die watery deaths—an aural hallmark of Not John Williams' composition accompanying each. Humanoids from the Deep (also known as Monster in Europe and Japan) is a 1980 American science fiction monster movie, starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, and Vic Morrow. The scenes don't get too graphic, but they definitely only exist so another pretty, young actress can get naked onscreen. Right down to the names of the characters.
This is what you get if you mashup Rosemary's Baby with Humanoids from the Deep. Upon seeing that he had added scenes to amp of the sex and violence (a shocker for Roger Corman I know) Barbara Peeters was understandably upset. Some movies like Humanoids from the Deep: Spawn of the Slithis (1978), The Mildew from Planet Xonader (2015), Hydra (1971), Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020), Octaman (1971). It is said that his philosophy was that the monsters should "kill all the men and rape all the women, " and that is exactly what they attempt in this film. There is a trans character who is played so broad, however, that almost undoes whatever seriousness the film was trying to achieve. It's difficult to pinpoint a true villain here. In addition to Mutant Fish-Monster rapes, this movie is pretty brutal, even by the grimy standards of 1980 exploitation films.
When the monsters rip a chunk out of a person, we see everything underneath- blood, bone, organs, etc. Even though the film could have used a little more humor to put it the wholesome into perspective a little, this surely is fundamental viewing for all fans of trash film-making. Like most good exploitation movie trailers, the above is NSFW. Humanoids From The Deep is a fairly entertaining relic of the pre-CGI 1980s where the monsters are actors who had to suffer for long hours in 100 pound suits in terrible weather conditions for our entertainment.
Nothing says they have any personal stake in all this, making all the yelling and fighting seem like so much bad acting. Country: Mexico, USA. You can sense the dramatic beats coming. The economic strain has led to increased tensions between the fishermen and the local American Indian community. After completion, Corman asked director Barbara Peeters to reshoot certain scenes including two monster rape scenes which were initially only shown in shadow.
Along with the last two inhabitants... Style: scary, serious, rough, psychotronic, cult film. Just as bothersome, several locals are attacked, killed or raped by slimy fishmen and right before the annual Salmon Festival, too! It's also unusual that the story's B plot involves a rift between a group of racists and a nearby community of Native Americans. The monster-suits are some of the most efficient ever and they look truly despicable. With a dummy and everything? However, Peggy has survived her sexual assault and is about to give birth when her monstrous offspring suddenly bursts out of her stomach in a fountain of blood. It offers a new take on material already covered in movies like Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Horror of Party Beach from years before, but also introduces ideas like a slasher element into the third act. On August 3, 2010 Shout! Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, humorous... Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller.
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