Plot: monster, mad scientist, transformation, creature feature, fish, octopus, laboratory, asperger's syndrome, nazi occultism, sea, exploitation, killer animal... Place: florida, usa. Given that, however, it's not a film you want to examine too closely or think about too hard. "Humanoids from the Deep" is an unbelievably entertaining gorefest! Plot: octopus, creature feature, giant animal, giant octopus, monster, sea monster, riddles and clues, dangerous animal, animal attack, police officer, disaster, creature... Time: 21st century, contemporary. And hey, you're already paying for Amazon Prime, so there you go. Gathering a few for analysis back at the lab, it is soon discovered that the critters belong to a gangly six-foot half man/half octopus-like creature,... And the scientific explanation behind the humanoids is, needless to say, a little fishy. ) It was the mid-90s so the story on how the Humanoids were created reeked of a rejected X-Files episode, a military experiment to create amphibious super soliders using death row inmates and some kind of slamon gene. Don Maxwell as Dickie Moore. The salmon escaped from the laboratory facilities into the ocean during a storm, and were then eaten by other larger fish that proceeded to mutate into the brutal and depraved humanoids that have begun to terrorize the village.
I know it came after this film, but when I watch Humanoids From the Deep, something always catches in the back of my mind, and I finally figured it out this time: this film is Redneck C. H. U. D. So imagine the premise of C. but instead of urban homeless victims, we get rural fishermen, and instead of sewer mutants, we get somewhat Lovecraftian river mutants. At the time of its release the movie received some publicity both for its final shock and the fact that a film like this had been directed by a woman. Wade and his daughter's environmentalist boyfriend (who of course Wade doesn't like) team up to track the monsters down. Doug McClure, fresh from a successful row of sf pictures (starting with The Land That Time Forgot in '75), plays the nominal hero; Ann Turkel ( Ravagers '79) is the visiting scientist who had warned her associates about what would happen; and Vic Morrow ( Twilight Zone the Movie) is great as usual as the local head bigot and loudmouth. More than that, the whole thing is just ludicrous beyond belief; it's highly doubtful that such creatures would want to mate with humans anyway. The first two characters to get killed are a boy quickly followed by a Golden Retriever that gets choked out and brutally murdered on-camera by a Fish-Monster. Lynn Schiller as Peggy Larson. Becoming more and more alienated from normal society, he develops an ability to communicate with sharks telepathically, setting... But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens.
Meegan King as Jack Potter. They are, and much of the beach community are in-bred deep ones, people with fish genetics and a desire to summon Dagon, a malevolent god of the sea. Dark Night of the Scarecrow1981. As a result, the film is also rather predictable. Plot: shark, killer fish, killer animal, monster, animal attack, sea monster, shark attack, scuba diving, revenge, killer shark, death, evil scientist... Place: the philippines, florida. Release Date(s)1980 (July 30, 2019). Plot: monster, killer shark, creature feature, shark attack, shark, mad scientist, dangerous animal, save the day, technology gone awry, experiment gone awry, mutant, sea monster... Time: contemporary, 21st century. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. Humanoids from the Deep is one of those rare films that is everything it promises to be.
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. The movie has become notorious for its regular nude scenes, which were apparently inserted later at the insistence of producer Roger Corman, a legendary figure who inspires as much awe as consternation, and his statements and behavior on this film would seem to fall into the later camp. On August 3, 2010 Shout! We got cultists, but they didn't really have the "Innsmouth Look" that really shouts Deep One. Later, Carol's dog goes missing and the two find its dismembered corpse on the nearby beach. 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.
Story: Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc. ) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state. It is not as gory as the Gordon productions, but it adapts the work of H. Lovecraft in a fun and straightforward way reminiscent of those films. 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. After a nest of fishmen is discovered in a maze of waterfront caves, Dr. Drake finally drops her cold exterior and turns against her employers to explain just what the hell is going on and where these darn fishmen came from.
Grave of the Vampire1974. One particularly silly/unnecessary scene involves a tent, a buxom young lass, and a ventriloquist. That's the extra level of ickiness not featured in your standard Sea Monster Horror movies. 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. Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, cult film... Plot: piranha, lake, summer camp, dangerous animal, deadly creature, experiment gone awry, mutant, chaos, race against time, eaten alive, animal attack, killer fish... Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Plot: eel, mutant, survival, mad scientist, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, wilderness, swamp, monster, creature feature, animal attack, shark... Time: contemporary, 21st century, 2000s. Ingrid reveals that what she is pregnant with is clearly not normal, in a patently icky moment of flailing tentacles, swirling visions, and things going in and out of orifices that really shouldn't be. One of the stars of the movie is actually composer James Horner. Here, no one really cares or has much of a stake in anything. Studio(s)New World Pictures (Shout! I mean, cancer is one thing to worry about, sure, but murder and rape?
Ironically, after all the hubbub the new scenes were cut from the final release and Peters received full credit for a film that went on to become one of the most memorable and popular films in the New World library. The girl will flail and scream back toward the relative solace of the beach. RUNNING TIME: 82 mins. Peters balked at this, saying the scenes would be cheap and gratuitous (well, um, yes? Alex and Deb bail the party early, and head back to the beach house to be rid of the cryptic locals, and discover a bit of history of the town that suggests what might be happening.
These are meaningful names in the annals of the Cthulhu Mythos. The moment she finishes, everything goes kablooey at the big Salmon Festival in a remarkably drawn-out, darkly comic and hugely entertaining mayhem sequence.