Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305325819 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 6305325812 Label: New Concorde Manufacturer: New Concorde Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: New Concorde Release Date: June 15, 1999 Running Time: 80 minutes Sales Rank: 50821 Studio: New Concorde Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Amazon.com: The peculiar genius of schlock-king Roger Corman is in full bloom with this extremely gory, pointedly offensive homage to 1950s monster movies (with a generous helping of Alien thrown in for good measure), in which a legion of mutated salmon-men terrorize a small town in their search for unwilling female companionship. (Potential viewers should be warned that this movie goes to great lengths to show what earlier films in this genre had only implied.) A guilty pleasure for exploitation fans with a strong stomach and a twisted sense of humor. For what it's worth, director Barbara Peters has claimed that additional shock scenes were inserted by producer Corman without her knowledge. The glop-intensive special effects were devised by Rob Bottin, who later went on to gross out the masses with his work on Seven, Robocop, and John Carpenter's graphic remake of The Thing. --Andrew Wright
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Rating: - Humanoids from the Deep Review from The Massie Twins
Noticeably taking several cues from big budget horror films, Humanoids from the Deep still manages to create an enjoyable atmosphere and a few unique thrills to retain an air of originality. Combining an infinitely absurd plot with serious actors, decent gore effects, gratuitous nudity, and a pervasive foreboding score from James Horner culminates in a low budget horror flick that nearly breaks free of such impediments to offer plenty of scares and laughs, mostly in that order.
In this Roger Corman produced monster movie, a small coastal village finds themselves facing a deadly invasion when DNA testing on local sea life causes mutated amphibious monstrosities to rise from the waters and begin preying on the villagers - and attempting to mate with human women.
With their large, exposed brains and slimy green bodies, the designs for the "Humanoids" look like a cross between Swamp Thing ... Read More
Rating: - Fishmen want human women with big boobs
Barbara Peeters classic 80's HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP is a real hoot from start to finish. A classic "B" movie with stalwarts like Doug McClure, Vic Morrow and Ann Turkel. Attempts to increase salmon production at a fishing town in the Pacific northwest has terrible results when the experimental fish escape to the open seas and are consumed by another fish -- which causes it to mutate and take on it's principal competitor: humans. It also drives it to mate with human females (well endowed human females I might add). The ending blatantly rips off ALIEN. The Noyo Festival featured a famous Monterey area Dixieland band, Jack Stock and the Abalone Stompers.
Rating: - A Little Something For Everyone
I'm conflicted. I, like many taxpayers, am insensed by the recent Federal bail out of Wall Street investment firms that were "too big to fail." But, I think GMO's are awesome and am sympathetic to the corporation's work to build a better salmon.
Ultimately, relentless pursuit of the bottom line (and not genetic engineering itself) ruined a good thing when Canco's operations produced a race of amorous and bloodthirsty fish-men. It just goes to show you can't trust Corporate America do do the right thing. If there had only been enough USDA and Fish and Wildlife Administration oversight, the bloodbath at Noyo, CA never would have happened and there would never have been Humanoids from the Deep.
Alas, hindsight is 20/20 (as Secretary Paulson has himself admitted). In Humanoids from the Deep, we get a nice slice of sleazy schlock that conveniently doubles as a cautionary warning against ... Read More
Rating: - A tasty dollop of campy horror
Oh, this was a funny time. Movies usually seen only on the nascent HBO. This film harkens back to the late 50s/early 60s b/w Corman classics, with what Frank Zappa aptly called "Cheepnis". My favorite momment was when one of the beasts encounters a bikini-clad gal on the beach, apparently he needed to pull her top off in order to get his amphibious rocks off. And he didn't even call her later.
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