1980 Directed by Barbara Peeters
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
Doug McClure Ann Turkel Vic Morrow Cindy Weintraub Anthony Pena Denise Galik Lynn Theel Meegan King Breck Costin Hoke Howell Don Maxwell David Strassman Greg Travis Linda Shayne Lisa Glaser Bruce Monette Amy Barrett Rob Bottin Shawn Erler Frank Arnold Jo Williamson Henry T. Williams Lyle Isom Jonathan Lehan Kent Adamson Steve Johnson Larry Wessel
Humanoids of the Deep, Monster (Humanoids from the Deep), Les monstres de la mer, Das Grauen aus der Tiefe, Твари из бездны
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Slimy fishmen hellbent on murder and beach rape, small town racist scumbags, amped up early 80’s nudity with gore for dayz, and a final 15 minute bloodbath death carnival.
Humanoids of the Deep is everything I want in a B picture sleazefest involving ‘science gone too far’ monster suit fishmen. I love the small town Jaws-like setting, Doug McClure, slasher-like vibes, the salmon-frog fishmen, and how it’s perfectly paced with slashed-body/face kills galore. A staple during my early years, I’ve never been bored watching Humanoids of the Deep, it’s an all timer fishman sleaze jam and certainly a crown jewel in Roger Corman’s produced filmography. I Love it. I only wish less doggo’s died and more of the racist people were brutally…
1st Barbara Peeters
A bland aquatic horror that also functions as the blackest mark in Corman's history. For all his (admirable) hiring of women, here he chose to take the film out of Peeters's hands and hire Jimmy T. Murakami to reshoot the sexual assault scenes to make them explicit, apparently frustrated that Peeters had done the scenes through subtle inference. The resulting inserts are unpleasant and unnecessary, especially for the prodigious amount of female nudity. It's clearly to arouse the male audience but achieves none of it through its tastelessness.
The rest of the film is both too short and strangely inert. The mutated creatures are probably the best part of it, thanks to some really quite good makeup,…
Now that the semester is over, I’m binging on a bunch of 80’s horror movies I’ve been putting off and this was absolutely terrific! I was sure I had never seen this before, but then a scene towards the end was really familiar so maybe I did? I don’t know how I could forget this awesomeness unless I was in a drug induced haze which isn’t entirely impossible. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a pretty perfect 80’s version of a bad 50’s b-movie and I loved everything about it from the foggy atmosphere to the awesome creatures tearing the town up and I don’t know what it says about me but I was Team Humanoids all the way.
The Shout! Factory transfer is really beautiful and I’m so glad for that because this one is a total keeper.
Sidenote: did Guillermo watch this before coming up with The Shape of Water or what
Spooktober II: To Hell With the 80s
Many creatures like vampires and Frankenstein have been portrayed mostly in their natural form, but others like the black lagoon monster have derived in a series of films where they are represented as these scaly monsters or as other less mythological animals. For example, although it is not confirmed, it is not difficult to see the influence of the Universal classic on films like "Jaws" or "The Abyss".
In the case of this film, to a certain extent it feels like a new take, a remake of the Jack Arnold classic, updated for the 1980s with remarks such as the persisting racism between Native Americans and whites, especially in small towns. And although…
You have just got to love Roger Coman for demanding reshoots to show more nudity and mutant fishman rape! It was a simpler time. I was hoping this was going to be as sleazy and trashy as I vaguely remembered it as a teenager and boy did it deliver! This is the definition of they don't make 'em like this anymore. Just full of great gore, nudity, and impressive special effects for the time. This ticks all the boxes then throw in the aforementioned mutant creature rape and you have a picture for the whole family to enjoy.
One thing worth mentioning is there are quite ALOT of dog death in this so worth taking into account if you haven't seen it before.
Just my kinda cheesy monster sleaze that's packed with low budget creature designs, loads of cheap gore and plenty of entertainment. I try to fit this one in every summer. And hey it's still pretty warm out so cha ching!
A small coastal town is being ravaged by some horrible sea monsters! Their mission: to kill every man and rape every women. Dang those monsters aren't very nice! Well they would have been nicer if Corman allowed the first tamer version of this film to move ahead. Deciding it wasn't exploitive enough he brought on another director to add in more rape and violence. Which gives this movie a strange feel.
On one hand it feels like a PG monster…
Yeah, this is still some crazy fun monster madness! Roger Corman and Barbara Peeters for the win, yo! Oh, and let's not forget Jimmy Murakami.
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). Yeah, loads of girls gonna be havin' some unwanted fish-babies up in here. Hide your kids! Hide your wife!
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. How something this gnarly came out the same year…
Geoff T's Hoop-Tober 6.0 Challenge
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
This was kind of a last-minute addition to the list, but nonetheless made a good enough fit for the "female director" category of the challenge. To best describe this Roger Corman production would be as an early 1980s update of Creature from the Black Lagoon, only with 110% added gore, T&A, and a bunch of other stuff that make up a New World Pictures film.
In a quiet costal fishing town in California undergoes a major terror, as a bunch of mutated fish-monsters (apparently experiments gone wrong) begin to wreck havoc on the population, slaughtering everything and everyone in sight. Man, woman, child, dog, nothing is safe basically. Jim Hill…
CW: sexism, fish monsters
Seemingly endless violence rising from the waters, striking at women--only women--and paired with conflict over the future of the town. Inevitably, these things intertwine, as capitalism and patriarchy are one and the same. There is something gleeful about these ever evolving fish monster forms, how they look both absurd and creepy, both complex and cheap at once. They are amazing constructions, the kind of monster movie effects that benefit from the bad print but evoke a familiar, happy feeling of enthusiasm. Perhaps they were masterpieces even without that sense--I've no idea how difficult they were to make--but they don't seem to mesh with the reality the film presents anyway, and that's what I love most about them.
October count: 43/31
