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…

Territorial monsters who like to have sex with women on the beach, mutilate and rip apart men and crash boardwalk carnivals...I think I'm in love.

When it comes to horror films there is something exceptional and special about a monster movie done right. It is so often we see zombies, madmen, madwomen, unstoppable killers haunting dreams and campgrounds, boogeymen, vampires but mutated monsters with little to no explanation but plenty of exploitation are few and far between. There is no slow build to a gory end, the blood flows gloriously from start to finish and there is no set of rules the monsters stick to, everyone is fair game.

Seeing as how the humanoids evolve rapidly the filmmakers decided not…

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…

Everyone likes a good Christmas Carol, right?

Maestro? Music, please?

There's a monster with claws so razor sharp
a living head of cabbage, and it smells of day old carp.
Roger Corman you have done it once again,
another genre rip-off, premise and budget both paper thin.
Shadows hiding all the scenes that might be cool,
but illumination shows off zippers in the suits.
There's a monster with claws so razor sharp
crawled out of the depths and clawed it's way into people's hearts

I thought this was dumb, reminds me of "Jaws"
I went in thinking that I've surely seen it all
This cheap-o horror schlock, it leaves me restless, but then I noticed...
that I had watched it…

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…

What on Earth is this movie doing on Netflix?? My God what a find! I've amassed such a huge list on Netflix, as I prowl the films everyday like it's a bargain bin in CeX. It must've just been added! but sure enough there it was! Been wanting to watch this for a while, I can't remember who it might've been Naughty's review that got my attention.

What plays out in the film, is almost like a bizarre version of Jaws meets the Creature From the Black Lagoon? Yet it's also a sexploitation movie pretty much?? what on Earth! The small sea town vibes and politics, the underwater shots, the set pieces in and around water are very Jaws. And…

Why the girls?
-Jim Hill

The perfect balance of bad acting, horrible dialogue, excessive violence, unintended (some intended thrown in) humor, sexual exploitation and cheap special effects. It's directed by Barbara Peeters and written by William Martin, but the only name that really matters is it's (uncredited) executive producer Roger Corman.

The plot involves scientific experiments, racism and dependance on limited natural resources. These elements are used to tell the story of a race of fish-men that are violently killing the men (and dogs) of a fishing community and raping the women, only the attractive ones though. The fish-men costumes are so goofy looking that the stuntmen refused to wear them forcing the production to hire more actors for the…