REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Wed., June 13, 2001. He's produced 400 films in a career spanning nearly 60 years and he's done this primarily by making very low budget exploitation movies. More attacks follow, not all of them successful, but few witnesses are left to tell the public about what's happening; only Peggy is found alive, though severely traumatized. Humanoids from the Deep is ultimately what it sets out to be: competently made exploitation horror film that can still shock audiences 40 years after its release. Country: Mexico, USA. There is some nudity and sexual scenes that are reminiscent of those old Full Moon Features, and the campy acting and wooden archetype characters fit that mold as well. 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.
As if that wasn't enough, people's dogs are being killed, which also, yes, leads to still more tensions with the Indians, who are blamed. Russel Marsh (Robert Miano) is engaging, and has no concept of personal space. There's literally something fishy about this little beachside community, as a vacationing couple get entangled with a curious beachside community ritual. Quite infamous for its misogyny, despite being directed by a woman. Style: scary, futuristic, suspense, suspenseful, bleak... Style: bloody, scary, humorous, melancholic, bad ending... In 1980, he produced a little monster movie, inspired by Jaws and his own production Piranha, that would become one of the more controversial of his career: Humanoids from the Deep, a movie about fish monsters who come ashore to impregnate nubile young women.
Spoiler warning: The following contains plot details about |. Style: scary, semi serious, bleak, suspenseful, psychotronic... Humanoids From The Deep is a straight down-the-line, unashamedly trashy monster movie that doesn't try to be any more than it is, and I like it a lot. 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.
Researchers at the secretive Bentan Labs are celebrating the completion of their latest weapons project: a previously unknown type of mildew, capable of spreading and consuming any kind of vegetation... and ideal for attacking... She refused, so was fired and Jimmy rakami shot the added footage, though rumours persist that Corman shot it himself. Blacks are deep and saturation is potent, particularly at the outdoor festival towards the end, which is rich with multiple hues in every direction. But even among the countless knock-offs produced, distributed or directed by Roger Corman, few have a pedigree quite as long as the Barbara Peeters-directed Humanoids from the Deep, which borrows ideas, themes, sometimes whole scenes from dozens of earlier films (including several of Corman's own): Creature from the Black Lagoon and all its sequels, Creature from the Haunted Sea, It's Alive, Jaws, Attack of the Crab Monsters. If you like "Humanoids from the Deep" you are looking for movies about / with monster, sea, pregnancy and birth, octopus, babies and infants, exploitation and killer fish themes of Action, Drama and Horror genre shot in USA. User Review( votes). Also of note is the listing in the credits of Gale Ann Hurd as a production assistant. At first presumed dead, once no female bodies are recovered though, speculation naturally turns to the idea that the Humanoids are keeping all the women for themselves at some type of monster whorehouse. Don Maxwell as Dickie Moore. An infestation of amorous fish creatures is not something most small communities think to plan for, but they should. The economic strain has led to increased tensions between the fishermen and the local American Indian community. Peggy believes it is simply a prank until she discovers his horribly mutilated corpse. Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, cult film...
Peters was one of the few female directors to come out of the Corman school and before moving on to television shortly after Humanoids from the Deep, she had a number of other exploitation films under her belt. The bonus materials replicate the earlier DVD and Blu-ray releases from Shout! These added scenes are enough to make the movie one to easily dismiss but it does have plenty of entertainment elsewhere. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off. The immobile monsters just stand around while extras run past them. Gina La Piana does a serviceable job as our lead.
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. Well, to be fair, there seem to be only three different monster suits that reappear each time. Plot: exploitation, rape, raped by monster, monster, survival, female nudity, sea monster, fishing village, mad scientist, animal attack, fisherman, creature feature... Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century. And some Billy Jack-esque themes. Of course the explanation for the creation of the creatures is nonsense, or is it considering what they can do with genetics and stem cells these days? Doug McClure, as usual in his films, is a reasonable leading man but nothing more, getting the job done but not projecting much charisma. It's refreshing that Ann plays a tough, take no nonsense oceanographer who's the smartest person in the movie. It seems a little odd, for instance, that the sheriff never seems to investigate any of the murders, disappearances, dog killings, rapes or fire bombings that take place all over his village even before the humanoids show up. Johnny Eagle was fighting for his people's way of life in the original, convinced that a cannery built in his town would ruin the fishing and trample his tribe's fishing rights while Hank Slattery believed the cannery was the only way to save the town. The film telegraphs its punches, but it is clearly for fans who like their Lovecraft stories with a thin slice of sleazy. Who knows…some gibberish about needing to mate is muttered near the end but it's just a bullshit excuse to show off boobs & garner some controversy.
She says that Corman balked and brought in and uncredited director to spice up the rapes and add more nubile female flesh. Story: Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian island of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic activity on the area's marine life. Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: The movie features the "unsubtle, Gratuitous Rape" variation, complete with Chest Burster, though the titular Humanoids are mutant fish rather than aliens. Genre: Action, Horror.