Humanoids From Deep Reviews

• More Fun Than You Can Possibly Imagine!

  
  By A2V3P1XE33NYC3 on 2003-11-12
  I consider myself well schooled in low budget schlock from various film genres. Watching cheesy films is an acquired taste, one not easily cultivated overnight. Even with some knowledge about who makes these types of films under my belt, I still stumble over major contributors to the clunker movie catalogue and wonder why I haven't spent time with these delicacies before now. Roger Corman is my latest discovery. I admit to having heard of Corman before in reference to the spate of Vincent Price horror classics that emerged in the 1960s along with a few other films he made over the course of his career, but until now I never saw any of them. This guy is a giant of the low budget film, producing or directing some 500 plus movies in the last forty years. He's still going strong as far as I know, and never limits himself to one particular genre; he's made westerns, horror, action, drama, and science fiction films with seeming ease. Moreover, according to the bio on this DVD, Corman helped launch the careers of numerous Hollywood bigwigs. If "Humanoids From the Deep" is any indication, I will spend a lot of time with this filmmaker's projects in the near future.

  This movie really ought to be a huge cult cinema classic. Maybe it is in some circles, but if so, I never heard about it. What a shame, too, because "Humanoids From the Deep" is classic camp that rips off every 1950s monster film you ever heard about. The movie, set in a fishing town called Noyo, tells the story of a town rapidly fading away. The local tars are having a tough time catching enough fish to make a living, and just when it seems that all is lost a big time cannery corporation arrives on the scene promising to build a factory that will rejuvenate the local industry. Who can argue with an influx of well paying jobs? Certainly not a fisherman named Hank Slattery who sees dollar signs in the arrival of the suits. Most of the townspeople adopt Hank's position concerning the changing times, even level headed Jim Hill. Hill, who really doesn't care for Hank due to the man's racism against the local Indian tribe, grudgingly agrees that the cannery will help salvage the town. He's a bit suspicious about corporations in general, a thought shared by his wife, but he's willing to go along with it if it means food on table. The local Indians, led by Hank's nemesis Johnny Eagle, despise the idea of building a cannery on old tribal grounds. When a series of unexplainable incidents occur in rapid succession, the Indians and Slattery's goons duke it out with other over the future of the area.

  What in the world could possibly cause all of the dogs in the area to die violently in the space of a single evening, lead to the disappearance of a few of the local ladies, and cause such discord between the Indians and the Anglo community? Why, humanoids from the deep, of course! That's right, within mere minutes we learn that Noyo has a big problem in the form of some weird half-salmon, half man beasties roaming around offshore. And these monstrosities take no prisoners, either, since they aren't above tearing open a few bodies, ripping off a few heads, or liberating a few bosoms in order to capture Noyo's women for mating purposes. Corman permeates this film with everything a low budget horror lover could want: completely unnecessary nudity, gallons of gore, and numerous massive explosions. The cars, houses, and boats blowing up in "Humanoids From the Deep" especially impressed me since the producers of the film sank a lot of money into these blossoming fireballs. This is obvious because they use the hilarious old "numerous camera angles and quick cuts" to get the most out of the effect. If you don't care explosions, there is always the gore to float your boat. The conclusion of the film, when Noyo celebrates their town festival and the humanoids make an impressive yet unannounced visit is sure to thrill you with the arterial sprays and gory amputations going on all over the place. What a great little film.

  The performances aren't all that bad either. Vic Morrow plays Hank Slattery with all the menace you would expect from the late star. Doug McClure turns in steady work as the even tempered Jim Hill. The rest of the cast, while not as well known as these two actors, all do a pretty good job with their parts. Of course, the humanoids share top billing with the human actors, which is fine because the special effects used in creating these violent creatures worked quite well in my opinion. The humanoids are gruesome looking, with sharp teeth, oversized heads and arms, and a shambling gait resembling the undead in all of those Italian horror movies. I can't say I cared too much their endless shrieking and wailing, but the look and the unremitting violence of these monsters repeatedly entertains.

  The DVD is quite a catch too (pun intended). You get five trailers: "Humanoids From the Deep," "Eat My Dust," "Big Bad Mama," "Death Race 2000," and "Grand Theft Auto." A short interview with Corman, conducted by Leonard Maltin, graces the DVD, along with bios for Corman and the cast. The film transfer looks good for an old film of this caliber, at least good enough to see all of the splattery effects and nubile young women running around town. "Humanoids From the Deep" is a must see for those looking for a way to spend a wacky eighty minutes.
  
  

• One of Corman's best schlockers!

  
  By ARFBRSE35ZJ6A on 2001-02-04
  Humanoids from the Deep is one of my favorite Roger Corman films, right up there at the bottom of the heap with Death Race 2000, Galaxy of Terror, Battle Beyond the Stars, et al. And since I'm a new devotee to the DVD format, my comments refer to the DVD version of this classic Corman work.

  The image quality is good in most of the scenes. The audio quality is also good. And the "sleaze" quality is great! Some of Corman's best. But the movie is not in widescreen format and the special features are not too special. There is a trailer of the movie and some trailers of other Corman movies, some brief cast biographies, a scene index, a little booklet detailing the highlights of Corman's career, and a three minute Corman interview with film critic Leonard Maltin, which is not too informative.

  In the interview Corman gives his not-too-original theory of how to scare audiences by not showing the monsters too much and letting the viewer's imagination do the work for him, a rule Humanoids seems to avoid, sine the mutant fish-men are on screen quite a lot. He also gives credit to director Barbara Peeters, saying she was the right person for the job at the time. However, he neglects to mention that both she and Ann Turkel, the female lead, both publicly denounced the movie and disavowed their parts in it, saying that Corman had turned it into "a T & A flick!"

  Barbara Peeters had directed at least one other Corman movie before Humanoids, so she should have known what was expected of her. Evidently she and Turkel thought they were making a serious ecological disaster type movie, and were incensed when Corman brought in another director to add the nudity and rape scenes! Not surprisingly, since she failed to live down to his expectations, Peeters never directed another Corman film. She went into TV work instead.

  During the production of this film, someone suggested that, for comic relief, one of the humanoids should be gay, and be seen attacking a male citizen of the small fishing village of Noyo, but Corman nixed the idea, saying, with a straight face, "There are no homosexual humanoids!"

  As to the movie itself, the cast is good: Vic Morrow, near the tragic end of his career, is very villainous; Doug McClure, always competent, is stalwart and brave; Ann Turkel is beautiful and resolute as the lady scientist; Cindy Weintraub is beautiful and courageous as McClure's wife. And Linda Shayne is beautiful and naked, as are Lynn Theel and Lisa Glaser, all hapless victims of the Humanoids.

  This DVD belongs in the collection of every Roger Corman fan, and every fan of schlock horror in general!
  
  

• Humanoids On The Cheap

  
  By AIMR915K4YCN on 2003-03-07
  I love schlock!! I love cheese! "Humanoids From The Deep" is my dream come true! Roger Corman understands what makes a bad movie good. Picture if you will, a small village where fishing and drinking beer are the only activities. Imagine this town invaded by hordes of horny fishmen. Women are savagely attacked and impregnated (??). Nudity? This flick has more bouncing boobs than a 3 stooges marathon! Doug McClure is the goodguy. As usual, he pulls off his role with the skill and charisma of driftwood. Vic Morrow is the badguy (although he comes "into the light" at the end). He basically plays the same drunken bigot he played in "Twilight Zone, The Movie". Morrow is a great actor. No one does a better job of being menacing! I've been afraid of him ever since "Blackboard Jungle"! Anyway, the Humanoids keep on raping and pillaging, until the great apocolyptic carnival scene! Lots of fake blood, explosions, and hand-to-fin combat! This film would make an excellent double feature with "Horror Of Party Beach"! A must see...
  
  

• The Classic - very few come close

  
  By on 2002-09-01
  It is an honor to review this movie. 20 years ago my girlfriend and I were walking in Times Square past the movie house where Humanoids was playing. She saw a poster of the monster and wanted to know if such creatures really existed. At that point I knew I had to marry her.
  I would like to give this movie 8 stars ********
  Half of the movie is directed by Barbara Peters. This half stars Vic Morrow, Ann Turkel, and Doug McClure. They are solid as they seek to save their seaside community and understand the reptilo-humano-Jaws with gonads menace which threatens them. However, this part of the film is not exciting and not original, so it only gets two stars. The other half of the movie, the secret existence of which these actors and the director herself were unaware of (!!), consists of lovely young women at the beach being impregnated by a giant seaweed-covered sponge. There is a very hot sex-scene-threesome in a tent between a geeky puppeteer, his randy woodie, and a very alluring young thing who tries to seduce the marionette. In the midst of this scene, the puppeteer is disemboweled and the lovely young woman runs out of the tent without her clothes, down the beach, but is caught and impregnated by the seaweed-covered sponge. The scene is not explicit enough that you would have been able to explain his reproduction technique to your biology class, but it offers hints. This secret half of the movie deserves 5 stars because I have never seen anything like it before or since.
  Finally, the art on the video box is sublime and deserves a star, too. 2 + 5 + 1 = 8
  
  

• Whoh mama.

  
  By AR61Y2VWLST1V on 2004-03-24
  Pretty horrible, but bad in the Burial Ground or Pieces kind of way. The story here centers on a fishing town where the financial hub is evidently salmon. The fish have been thinning out, and all of the fishermen, morose beer-swilling lowlifes for the most part, are bitter. But there is one ray of hope in the form of the cannery that's supposed to revitalize the whole town. Add to this powder keg the Billy Jack-esque Indian guy that wants to preserve the land.

  Apparently, a scientist working for the cannery has been tampering with salmon, I guess on some genetic level, to make better salmon or something. What this actually does is create a race of humanoid salmon, buck-toothed monsters with bulging brain sacks and gigantic rubber flippers. The monsters are coming ashore and mauling people, but they are particularly driven towards the chicks. You see, salmon monsters need love too, especially when it comes in the the form of bikini-clad or outright naked beach girls. There isn't much romanace involved. The girls just sort of scream and run, then make sure they fall once or twice so the rubber flipper tread can keep up with them. Now, when the girls aren't entertaining the salmon monsters, they're busy getting it on with land-based degenerates (who just want to drink some beer and have a good time.) More to the point, one girl, tenting on the beach near the tide line for some bizarre reason, is actually coaxed out of her clothes by a puppet with only slightly more finesse than the salmon monsters. There is one blonde girl, voluptuous, milky-skinned, that's kind of pretty, and the salmon monsters really take a liking to her. They take her to their lair, which is above ground, and this is okay, since the salmon monsters just randomly venture miles inland and take to the water only when it's convenient.

  Eventually, one of the salmon monsters is killed, giving the salmon scientist a chance to study it and make a round of profound observations. Evidently these humanoid salmon are in fact humanoid, and their amphibious attack patterns suggest the fact that they might be turning amphibious! There's never really any satisfactory explanation as to why they chase girls. Probably it's just an ego thing. Or maybe they ARE just diehard romantics---personally I think that is the true reason. The Creature from the Black Lagoon needed love too, and his defense, they threw a super hot babe into each one of his movies, and that was because the Creature, unlike the salmon monsters, had panache and that quiet kind of cool.

  This movie is great if you just want to watch mindless crap, as I very often do. I only got this movie a few days ago, and I've already watched it like five times. It's inexpensive, and for what it is it fits the bill.
  
  

• An excellent underrated film.
  By ADZQ6GRC6YME2 on 2000-08-20
  This movie may not appeal some because of it is critcism from various people such as TV Guide. They think that the movie is nothing but another mindless B flick. It is a B flick as they say. However, it is scary and entertaining.

  The movie is about a town that is being devastated by the horrific outcomes of experiments. The men are being killed in a gruesome fashion and the woman are being raped. The people are scared and bewildered and wonder if they will be next.

  The ones involved in the experiment soon find themselves tracking the creatures down. When they come face to face with one, they immediately bring it to a laboratory. They realize that there is more than one, and they are about to strike again.

  As the body count rises, the suspense builds up and you will keep your eyes glued to the television screen until the heart pounding spine tingling bone chilling gory climax. Some may think the effects are cheesy and unoriginal, but they are still scary nonetheless.

  It contains many rape scenes and lots of nudity. If you don't like to see a lot of sex or full frontal female nudity, then I suggest that you skip this film.

  This movie also contains extreme gore. The body count is high, and each death involves blood and gore. Some are tame, and others are graphic. If you do not like movies with extreme gore and violence, I suggest you skip this one.

  The script is pretty well written and the lines are not as cheesy as others. There is hardly any humor, but it is not supposed to be. The cast give outstanding performances, and they do not seem like those streotypes in some slasher films. I would recommmend this to anyone who wants to see a scary Roger Corman B movie.
  
  

• Easily the Finest Mutant Salmon Movie Ever Made!!
  By on 2002-07-13
  As soon as I heard the ad for this masterpiece on the radio ("Humanoids from the Deep, they hunt women. Not to kill but to mate"), I knew this was a must see cinematic event. I was not disappointed.
  If your taste in motion pictures run towards woman chasing mutant salmon you'll be delighted. Never before (or since) has a mutant salmon movie reached such heights.
  
  
• Oh the horror, oh the schlock
  By A3A48XEYWLWH7T on 2000-06-07
  When was the last time you saw a 2 legged humanoid mutant salmon / coelacanth combo chasing its bikini clad teen-age prey on a boardwalk's merry-go-round? Probably the same time you saw the newly crowned Miss Salmon at the same boardwalk bludgeon another humanoid with a piece of masonry. Yep, toss in the Shatner-esque late model Doug McLure, an evil Vic Morrow, and a few dozen convincing salmon monsters and you have a Corman classic. Does the back story matter? Well, sure, isolated fishing village languishes while a nearby research facility works to genetically produce superior salmon. Of course a batch escapes into the wild and mates with every crypto zoologists favorite fish, the 70 million year `extinct' coelacanth. The resulting progeny grow into shambling golem style freakers, attacking bathing beauties in an attempt to er, spawn. Never mind the boyfriends, they're quickly dispatched in a shower of red dye. Marvel at the Prophecy-esque sub-plot between the local Indian trying to save his land and Vic Morrow, resident bully. What we're left with after the finale on the boardwalk are more questions [but not before McLure gets a chance to try out that rifle on the dang land fish], and a final scene nod to Alien. While it was amusing to be brought under the schlock spell for a few hours, let's just say I'm glad I caught this on the dish, for free.
  
  
• Been There, Done It!!
  By A5R9GV09YAMKO on 2005-11-28
  I've read the reviews from all 37...and a big kudos to you all for watching this movie. I was a paid extra in the movie(senior year in high school) i can say it was alot of fun being a mindless humanoid when the stunt man refused to get in the suit. Spending my time next to a gas burner to keep us warm at 3:30 in the morning waiting for the next shot. i have great memories of us extras dining with Doug, Vic, Anthony, Ann, Barbra. The movie was campy fun and a definite B movie of desperate measure.
  
  
• Silly, fun stuff.
  By on 1999-10-08
  Bickering, stupid townfolk, a tough-as-nails feminist scientist, full frontal nudity and horrible mutant coelacanth(not salmon)monsters....yep, this one's got it all! Sort of a sister film to "Piranha", "HFTD" has all the great cliches of horror from the opening shot taken straight out of "Jaws" to the hand held stalker cam of "Halloween" and the end scene a homage to "Alien". The gangly humanoids, created by Rob Bottin, are meant to look straight out look straight out of some 50's monster flick. Like many monsters they loose their flare after the first 20 minutes of them on screen(Indeed, the scariest sight is probably the mutilated dog carcass on the beach) but they hold well. Pretty gruesome, especially the rape scenes.
  
  
• Garbage, With One Great Nude Scene
  By on 2002-05-23
  Usually exploitation flicks don't meet expectations because the actresses are sub-standard in the looks department. There are a few exceptions and "Humanoids from the Deep" is one of them. There is a scene in a tent with a naturally voluptuous vixen that knocked my socks off. Yeah, she was a little dopey looking but I like them like that.
  
  
• So Bad it's Almost Good
  By A2AOZQ3WTNVVOK on 2005-08-21
  Doug McClure established himself as Trampas on tv's "Virginian" that ran from 1962 to 1971. After "The Virginian" McClure had a hit or miss career in the movies. This particular movie is a campy bit of fun that is most assuredly not a family movie, though teenage boys will likely figure out a way to watch it.
  
  The plot is a rehash of monster movie plots that date back to at least the 1950s. We have local creatures that have mutated from fish to become somewhat humanoid. The fish-humanoids move about as fast as an arthritic old man, but that somehow does not prevent the critters from killing dogs and people with abandon. Even more interesting, the creatures seem to figure out a clever way to grab the local ladies, even though they often run away, and mate with them.
  
  Somehow the cast manages to put in a decent acting job in spite of the monster silliness. Doug McClure is level-headed Jim Hill who battles local fisherman and bully Hank Slattery, played by Vic Morrow. Ann Turkel plays a rare female scientist Dr. Susan Drake. Then there are a number of very pretty monster victim babes.
  
  When I watch this movie I think of "Plan 9 from Outer Space," because the monsters shamble along and yet they somehow manage to make victims of healthy men and women. Though some of the victims fall prey to the monsters laying in wait for them, sometimes the victims fall prey through sheer silliness. The monsters are certainly big and strong, and once a humanoid catches a victim the victim is unlikely to survive the encounter if male, and female victims are sexually violated.
  
  The rape of female victims by the monsters raises this movie to a new low. The scenes are graphic and while intended to be horrifying, often end up being a little silly. The victims are stereotypically portrayed as scatterbrained bunnies bolting headlong from a monster only to fall prey to the monster as they somehow manage to fall and scream a lot. For some strange reason the humanoids also have an interest in human female breasts as the monsters rip the bikini tops from their victims. Of course, this movie also assumes that the genetically created monsters have no female monsters to mate with, unless the female monsters were stalking the men in the movie and we did not get to see that.
  
  This movie also features a "surprise" ending that horror film fans will see coming well before the end of the movie. Fans of director Roger Corman will likely intuit the ending from nearly the beginning.
  
  In spite of the rehash of monster movies, and the gratuitous sex scenes, this movie is bad enough to be worth watching at least once. The acting by the leads is decent, and there are some satisfying special effects. This movie is deservedly rated R, and I would be reluctant to watch this movie with anyone else unless I knew they would not be offended.
  
  
  
• Mutated mermen must mate!
  By on 1999-04-27
  Environmental pollution finally has it's effect on the sealife near a sleepy little coastal town. The mutated humanoids come up from the depths and boy are they pissed, actually, their horny, for human females. Don't miss the finale. "Aliens", eat your heart out!
  
  
• A guilty pleasure!
  By A16CB9KZ8OER76 on 2002-01-07
  This movie is the ultimate Roger Corman guilty pleasure. It is also Doug McClure's best movie, even though he was grossly overweight. The humanoids are the result of genetic engineering gone awry. They attack a remote fishing community to get nubile young women. In the words of the female scientist, "they are driven to mate with human females in order to advance their species on the evolutionary scale." Yeah! You gotta love it. I first saw this about 20 years ago, at a theater in Chicago's Loop, where a large part of the audience was African (I'm white). The guy in front of me was a young black guy who was having a great time rooting for the monsters. "That's it! Get that redneck! Mess him up! Ha! Ha!"
  
  
• Title sounds very fifties, doesn't it?
  By A3L2U581LL17EB on 2002-09-05
  With a title called Humanoids from the Deep, you'd probably be pretty dumb to expect anything more than a schlocky B-movie. And since I'm always game for a schlocky B-movie, I actually had decent expectations from this movie (even Leonard Maltin gave it 3 stars out of 4). Maybe not so unsurprisingly, Humanoids turns out to be a pretty lame, but also rather watchable, "monsters run amok" flick.

  The fishing village of Noyo has a few problems on its hands, actually rather a LOT, in the form of mutated salmon that want to kill all the men and rape the women. We see this cycle play itself out for, well, the entire movie, so that's pretty much all there is plot-wise, excepting the Native American who has trouble from a bigot (played by Vic Morrow).

  I've always said that it's entirely possible to make a truly entertaining film (for all the right reasons) from a fun premise. So Humanoids from the Deep probably could have made for one wild little horror flick if not for the stilted pacing and second-rate creature effects. The movie certainly has its heart set in the right place. We've got all the ingredients we expect from a movie like this: lots of gore and gratuitous nudity. Now only if the director could have crafted this with more competence and fun.

  Humanoids feels almost two hours in length, even though it runs barely over eighty minutes. The monotony is occasionally punctuated by the nudity and the kill scenes, but it's a shame all the moments in-between don't hold much interest. This is probably because of the lack of atmosphere; director Barbara Peters doesn't give the film the much-needed creepy edge and look it demands. The movie looks and sometimes feels a little bland.

  Not helping matters much are the special effects, which are rather poor. These mutated salmon are obviously just men in shoddy suits covered in seaweed. The gore effects, while nothing great, are adequate enough, particularly in the extremely violent climax, which must have made the R-rating a close call. Hard to believe the effects were done by Rob Bottin, who did such a masterful job on the visuals in The Thing.

  Humanoids' pacing does get better in the last half hour, when all hell breaks loose, and we get a pretty nifty massacre at the end. Peters even throws in some gunplay, which I imagine would have been more exciting with better direction and editing. As far as script and acting goes, the former isn't quite as stupid as I'd expected it (don't get me wrong, the science is idiotic, though plot holes are sort of kept to a minimum) to be and the latter is actually not that bad for a Roger Corman production.

  The score is done by none other than James Horner(!), who must have been in the budding stages of his career. To his credit, he doesn't rip off John Williams, though the music does have a Bernard Herrman-esque sound to it.
  
  

• GIANT, HORNY SALMON MONSTERS!
  By A2RMQW7RQ2VI6I on 2004-10-04
  Oh, what fun! This film is about a salmon fishing port town that gets invaded by genetically mutated salmon. They seem to evolve into human form over the course of a few short weeks and then go on a killing rampage to protect their habitat. They go through the town filleting up the men and raping the women to reproduce their hellish species. An interesting shock-fest if you are into that sort of thing. There are more than a few graphic scenes showing the monstrosities having their way with the ladies. The script is fairly intelligent too since it explains the biological process by which the salmon become what they are. Also a nice little find for film buffs, seeing as it is one of Vic Morrow's final films (too bad).
  
  
• This is the original Humanoids, but yes the remake is better
  By AD1ZOOX1TYR4I on 2001-02-21
  Campy and schlocky. For Corman diehard fans only. However, the remake with Robert Carradine and Emma Samms is much more carefully photographed and plotted. Definitely, buy the remake, which was made in '96.
  
  
• Favorite Drive In Memory
  By A5TZXWU8AALIC on 2002-08-07
  I'll never forget this: 1980, a drive-in theatre in West Virginia, partying in a Chevy Impala. Nobody paying too much attention to the rubber monster movie on the screen.

  Then someone says, "Hey, that monster's (having sex) with that girl up there."

  Nobody said another word and we watched the rest of the movie.

  After JAWS ('75), there was a deluge of drive-in B-movies set on or next to water. ALIEN was another huge hit in '79 so then came all the cheap sci-fi knock-offs. HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP combined/ripped-off both JAWS and ALIEN: you had the seaside setting as well as the slimy monsters.
  Sure, it's an exploitation movie, but it also answered the age-old question of what monsters want with our women. And it's pretty much what we suspected.
  In the right frame of mind, this is a Drive In Classic.

  (But be careful: there's an even-cheaper "remake" floating around out there with Robert Carradine, a sexless, humorless, drive-in-less knock-off so avoid the more recent version. You need the one with Doug McClure in winter wear, teen girls in bikinis, and Vic Morrow as the nasty racist fisherman).
  
  

• A TRUE GORE MASTERPIECE, FROM THE AGE OF GORE (1978-1983)
  By A30CJW1RNUHMN6 on 2006-08-23
  Humanoids From The Deep was released during the age of gore (1978-1983) in 1980. Incredible film transfer picture is sharp and crisp, audio is loud and clear. An interview with Roger Corman done by Leonard Maltin is really a nice feature on this dvd release. There are also a few other trailers from other Roger Corman movies on this dvd, along with talent bios. Roger Corman really struck a cord with gore fans with Humanoids. Humanoids is 80 minutes just like the old 1950s sci-fi movies. Barbara Peters does an excellent job directing this movie. Vic Morrow plays Hank Slattery so well that I could really believe this hank charachter existed. Doug Mcclure plays the calm and steady Jim Hill. Ann Turkell a believable scientist. All the other lesser known actors really fused the script and the story of Humanoids really well. A young Rob Bottin does an awesome job in the special effects of the mutated Humanoids, Rob Bottins effects work was done for the production of Humanoids in 1979, way before computer animation. I think the effects were quite believable even then in 1980 and even today. The Humanoids are a really believable monster, long teeth, long sharp claws. I could have done without their screeching and wailing but I think it fit the Humanoids perfect. Excellently written story by Frank Arnold and Martin B.Cohen. The ending to Humanoids was shocking for its time, but really quite common as with gore movies at this time (1978-1983). Directors and writers of this film genre were always trying to shock film audiences with gory effects during this time in the film industry. Keep in mind Humanoids came out during the age of gore but also before the MPAA got involved in controlling content in motion pictures. Horror gore movies like Humanoids From The Deep got away with alot of really gory effects. This movie should, I hope will keep your interest, the thing I like about Humanoids is the black humor, black humor aside, viewing the end of Humanoids from the deep will leave you thinking "what if this really happened?". If you have 80 minutes to spare on something wild watch Humanoids From The Deep there is lots of gore and an awesome classical soundtrack by a young James Horner, great Rob Bottin monster effects, political issues about over land development, and by the way a few georgeous ladies to ad to this shlock fest.
  
  
• A great monster flick!
  By on 2001-05-01
  If you trust Joe Bob Briggs over Roger Ebert, you're sure to like this movie. I first saw it on a whim in high school at a big theater that was in between "A" releases. By the time the movie ended with its infamous closing sequence, the audience was literally cheering! (I know, what a bunch of sicko's).

  This one has it all, mutated fish-people, gratuitous sex and violence, and comic book-like characters (or caricatures) - the smart and sexy female scientist, the square jawed hero, the nature/outdoor man armed with a crossbow. Think about it, fish-people with a need to mate attack a town in the midst of a beauty pageant - Roger Corman is brilliant!
  
  

• wrong vesion
  By A2MFZ4Y3NJWR6E on 2002-02-03
  When I bought this on VHS, they had listed the same cast from the original version made in the late 70's to early 80's. The remake was not as good as the original - which I wanted.
  To all who are inclined to purchase this video, BE ON GUARD.
  You may not like the version they made.
  
  
• Boring piece of schlock.
  By A7PBI5HADJYER on 2002-04-20
  Small seacoast town is being attacked by mutated humanoid creatures out to mate with the women. There's the typical gratuitous nudity, copious amounts of blood and gore, and lots of mayhem but none of it is directed with the slightest bit of competence. What we get is just Species II with fish creatures! Really bad special effects from Rob Bottin, by the way.
  
  
• CENSORS FROM THE DEEP
  By A1R14TUU31AW2T on 2002-08-19
  Why do companies that ripped us off for years putting out cut videos think now that we can afford more money,its perfectly ok for them to do the same with dvds.
  Most people dont agree with me that this version IS cut,untill i play them the version that was shown on Sky t.v over here in England a few years ago.
  There has been a scene removed where the humanoid monster(one of them)holds up a severed head that has been excised from this print.....FFSAKE WHY??????
  Otherwise its a good fullscreen print and well worth the money-come on censors in America(the land of the free??)"grow up"
  
  
• A Different Monster Movie!
  By AUGABW5AS2OXM on 2003-07-19
  This was another classic from filmmaker Roger Corman.You have
  legitimate actors in the persons of Doug McClure,Vic Morrow and
  Ann Turkel. In this movie sea creatures come from the deep to
  kidnap unwilling females for mating purposes. These creatures
  are a cross between a giant salmon and the Creature From the
  Black Lagoon.These females are taken and held by these creatures
  and of course this starts a panic in the community.The good guys
  seem to have no method to stop these creatures.The special effects also add to the quality of this film.The ending of the
  film is also something to see. Buy this movie.You will find it
  to be very entertaining.
  
  
• A Different Monster Movie!
  By AUGABW5AS2OXM on 2003-07-19
  This was another classic from filmmaker Roger Corman.You have
  legitimate actors in the persons of Doug McClure,Vic Morrow and
  Ann Turkel. In this movie sea creatures come from the deep to
  kidnap unwilling females for mating purposes. These creatures
  are a cross between a giant salmon and the Creature From the
  Black Lagoon.These females are taken and held by these creatures
  and of course this starts a panic in the community.The good guys
  seem to have no method to stop these creatures.The special effects also add to the quality of this film.The ending of the
  film is also something to see. Buy this movie.You will find it
  to be very entertaining.
  
  
• IF YOU GOT A TRILL FROM CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON!!
  By A1V5C482SN0L64 on 2004-03-22
  I SAW THIS MOVIE WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE A SICK JOKE-ROTTEN FANTISY.THESE CREATURES ARE ON THE HOT SIDE .AND THEY DON'T WASTE ANY TIME TRYING TO MATE THE GIRLS& KILL EVERYTHING ELES.I REALLY WISHED THE MOVIE WAS ALOT LONGER.BUT I HAD TO ADD IT TO MY OLD MOVIE COLLECTION ANYWAY.IT IS ALWAYS A REAL PLEASURE TO WATCH THIS MOVIE.!!YOU WILL LOVE IT TOO.
  
  
• Sexy B-movie
  By on 1998-11-21
  This is a good B movie: much better than the 90's remake
  
  
• A great Move for all who like Sci-Fi Gore
  By on 1999-04-14
  I Loved the movie. It was gori and good. A great plot and awsome creatures.
  
  
• Fairly dull gore-fest
  By on 2003-10-15
  This movie starts out in a small fishing town, which may or may not be getting a cannery built, depending on if the local political activist / indian chief gets his way. This whole subplot only exists to set up some explanation as to where the salmon men came from (the cannery people want to increase salmon population, and they use science - eek! - and it goes horribly wrong). Two things this introduction doesn't do is to 1) introduce the characters very well and 2) establish some sort of atmosphere. In the town, pretty much everybody dislikes pretty much everybody else; they argue, they scheme, they fight, they carry beer in from a truck. You don't really get to know (or care about) any of them. They're quite interchangeable actually. There are a few interesting secondary characters but they get little screen time, absolutely no character development at all, and are soon fodder for the special effects. As far as atmosphere, everyone seems to hang out on the dock or else go to the big annual salmon festival. And you should hear the salmon festival band - imagine a bunch of retired people going to the American Legion on a Wednesday night. Now imagine the band that might play there; now imagine a band four times worse than that. Egads, these folks must have been praying for salmon men to kill them for years if this is what they do for entertainment.

  Anyhow, after suitable time is given to showing more and more of the monsters, they finally attack in force, and there's lots of blood spurting in all drections. Not an exceptionally exciting action sequence, but it is campy as can be.

  Overall, this reminds me of something one might see on the Sci-Fi channel at 10:00 am on a Saturday morning. Not very good, but watchable. And there are some pretty girls getting nekkid. Too bad they didn't spend a lot more time on that, and a lot less time on those banal primary characters.
  
  

• great fun
  By A2WJLJAUQ41X2X on 2004-02-05
  Hugely enjoyable B movie from the Corman stable. This is certainly the best looking version I've seen of the film - though it does suffer a little from being transferred at the incorrect 4:3 ratio.
  Rob Bottin's creatures of the title still hold up surprisingly well today and the film rattles along at a breakneck pace clocking in at a tight 80 minutes. Excellent.
  
  

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