A lot of people don't realize that Humanoids From The Deep had a female director, Barbara Peeters. Keep up the good work. The humanoids are utterly believable while maintaining just the right amount of cheese. It's nice to see Shout Factory has once again delivered a stunning presentation for a movie most studios would probably have ignored. In essence, what you are dealing with here is the mutated and incredibly horny baby of Creature From the Black Lagoon & the spirit of late 70's / early 80's sex comedies. Mightn t the DNA-5 kick that creature s suspended evolution into overdrive, producing a beast the likes of which the Earth had never seen before? Look it up on the interwebs and watch the video on YouTube.
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Check out DK Books' Monsters in the Movies and get your effects scare on! Everything I knew about it screamed 'disaster' but my curiosity once again did me in. Radio Announcer (Mike Michaels). Morrow would later make a living playing tough guys and that persona extends to his role as the gruff racist Slattery. Nevermind the fact that coelacanths live in the waters around Madagascar, while Canco s new operation is poised to set up shop in Maine or some such place (and while we re at it, nevermind that coelacanth is pronounced SEE-la-canth and not koala-canth )-- Dr. Drake s apocalyptic predictions have proven to be right on the money. This single-disc BD comes packed in a blue eco case with a reversible slipcover featuring the U. S. artwork and the International artwork. There was a sense of a small town community in which everyone knew each other that made the eventual monster trouble have a sharper edge as old grudges and slights are brought to the surface in the tense moments. Maybe I m wrong-- Roger Corman was ultimately in charge of this flick, after all-- but I honestly believe that Humanoids from the Deep is one of those rare cheap horror films that is just as rewarding to watch with your brain turned on as it is with it turned off. Aside from the perverted moments, the film was better than expected. And then the Deep Humanoids started tearing off women's clothes and raping them. The goodies include: - Uncut Version. Fred Olen Ray would utilize this editing scheme in many of his later 80's action movies. It's goofy, but the effects are solid, and it also gives you a look at some of the fashions and looks that were in play at the time the film was made, the birth of the 80s.
The final film ended up being quite a different beast from what it was in the original script. Connoisseur of Cheese Review: "Humanoids From the Deep" (1980). Maybe it was the few too many glasses of wine clouding my judgement, but I thought the film did a great job of recreating the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and small town monster film vibe popular in the 50s/60s. To the film s great credit, it wastes no time at all in showing us a gill-man in all its toothy, flipper-bedecked glory after establishing the monsters obvious origin. It's hard not to imagine that her dropping out of film entirely may have had to do with a bad experience after being fired from this movie. Humanoids from the Deep is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination. Rating distribution. His role in HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980) is basically the same as those seen in any number of sci fi monster films from the 1950's. Not only did he get beaten up by Hank s rednecks the night before, the sons of bitches came by only a few minutes before the gill-man attack and blew up his house with what has to be the most powerful Molotov cocktail ever made. Watch the dummy s eyes as the gill-man rips his way into the tent. If you don't know who the fuck Roger Corman is then just go to IMDB and start at the top of his filmography as producer and work your way down. One of the great drive in classics of all time made even more startling in that it was directed by a woman.
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It turns into a gore-fest at the end. The ultimate drive-in movie - bad acting, oodles of gratuitous nudity and violence often at the same time. Why these are not on this disc, especially due to the fact that they were produced by the same company that produced the features found on this disc (Red Shirt Pictures) is beyond me. It's an 80-minute horror movie which is the perfect amount of time. Apart from this worth watching movie, I have to exalt James Horner's melodies and his magnificent music score. The creature smashes half the windshield out. They simply don't look like it. And this thing has some real bite for something from 1980, with a child being killed almost immediately, multiple dogs being shredded, fishmen impregnating girls, and a lot more gore than was typical for the era. No one is going to hit play on a movie called Humanoids from the Deep so they can get a lesson is socio-political issues regarding fishing rights from the early 1980s. They go down like lead balloons. Keep your eyes peeled and you'll see some off the wall shit during the melee that will have you laughing at the absurdity while adjusting the way you are sitting.
Humanoids from the Deep (1980), directed by Barbara Peeters. This feels like a mean-spirited update of a 50s monster flick, with slimy, rubber-suit fishmen that have a taste for the flesh of human females (and I don't mean to eat). In addition, footage from the original film was implemented into the remake. So basically they end up feeling like sloppy, slap-dashed segues meant to pad out the film. Already, I'm enjoying this chapter more than the previous one, there are bound to be creature features aplenty now.
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Descriptors||United States, Metrocolor|. Lots of jiggly boobs (it is exploitation, after all). Oh, sure, blame the Mega Corporation for all your problems. I have to figure the kids in my homeroom class describing the film simply had no words to use to get these disturbing scenes across to the rest of us. 1980 was a pretty big year for horror.
Drake clearly knows more than she s telling as she pokes around the wreckage, and the sketch she makes of the monsters from Johnny s description is just a little too accurate for comfort. Here is where the film really shines, because if you're going to have a movie about murderous monsters than those scenes damn well better be entertaining. But I seriously think that more is going on here than straight-up exploitation, that the filmmakers were simultaneously using the established conventions of exploitation cinema to take a good, hard look at the essential foolishness of those very conventions. Don't be culture deprived. Miss Salmon, 1980 and the K-Fish DJ|. Some even tried to have their names removed when they found out about the graphic nature of it. Extras and Packaging. Interestingly, some shots have the creatures with elongated arms while other shots the arms are a normal length for a man.
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The effects are equally as disgusting as his latter work with one effect, the guy popping out of the water with half a face, that made me jump the first time I saw it. Video and Presentation. Bottin created the effects for films like The Howling, John Carpenter's The Thing, Robocop, and Total Recall for God's sake. I certainly think it's one of the better ones Corman was involved with, and that's saying something. We couldn't understand sex much less 'fish monster on human female' sexual violence! Now, however, I've seen it a couple of times, and while it is b-movie fare, there are some cool things to be on the look out for, a score by James Horner, who would go on to have a pretty stellar career, fantastic make-up and creature effects by Rob Bottin – these are truly exemplary, the gore is high, and the humanoids are definitely cool looking. So he brought in someone else to add a little tasteless sexual assault and nudity to the film. If you're a fan of monster and exploitation films than yes. A Ménage à Trois Between a Clothed Man, a Naked Woman, and a Ventriloquist's Dummy|. There is strong violence and threat.
I should have known better than to watch this film. Using a remarkable genetic treatment called DNA-5, Drake has found a way to make salmon grow larger, faster, and twice as plentiful as they would in nature, allowing their populations to withstand the staggering rates of attrition that come with industrialized fishing. Luckily this taboo subject has become less common across media and viewed rightfully as the reprehensible act it is. What stands out is a rare occasion with a female director behind the camera who pays homage to the films that have come before rather than rip them off.
The culprits are a group of mutated fish-men, the result of unethical experiments from an evil corporation called Canco who have been fucking around with the salmon. Mutated humanoid fish people terrorize a small harbor town by killing and raping its inhabitants. Le premesse fanno subito pensare a qualcosa di vergognosamente pacchiano, ed in effetti è proprio così. Yes, ladies and gents, the film throws in a bunch of obvious racism to go with the rape and murder.
Only Roger Corman could make an excellent film with such an absurd plot. She looks about as thrilled to be in this scene as I was watching it. There will be gratuitous shower scenes, a helpful plot-specific radio station, and an amphibious version of the killer hiding in the back seat of the car. The sound comes in the form of a DTS-HD Master Audio track and the results are good. If someone did that to me, I'd probably want my name off the movie, too. Because if you can't pick one good idea out of the bunch, why not just cobble all your good ideas together.
Finally, there's an 8-page booklet loaded with essays. The acting is surprisingly capable in the way that so many of the Roger Corman monster movies is. In particular, what might happen if a more primitive fish, whose evolution had, for whatever reason, been arrested early in its phylogenic development-- a coelacanth for instance-- were to eat the treated salmon? The scenes with naked women almost seem like they were spliced in from a different, higher-budget movie.