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The peculiar genius of schlock-king Roger Corman is in full bloom with this extremely gory, pointedly offensive homage to 1950s monster movies (with a generous helping of Alien thrown in for good measure), in which a legion of mutated salmon-men terrorize a small town in their search for unwilling female companionship. (Potential viewers should be warned that this movie goes to great lengths to show what earlier films in this genre had only implied.) A guilty pleasure for exploitation fans with a strong stomach and a twisted sense of humor. For what it's worth, director Barbara Peters has claimed that additional shock scenes were inserted by producer Corman without her knowledge. The glop-intensive special effects were devised by Rob Bottin, who later went on to gross out the masses with his work on Seven, Robocop, and John Carpenter's graphic remake of The Thing. --Andrew Wright
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 Gory, action packed amphibian horror gets a well deserved DVD re-release January 22, 2010
D. Steigman (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This review is for the 2010 DVD version of Humanoids from the Deep. The original version and NOT the remake..
Shout Factory has acquired the rights to releasing New Horizons Roger Corman library & has announced many new titles to be released for the first time or in this case re-released but with a twist. This will be a vast improvement over previous releases. As of this writing, bonus features have not been announced but if it is anything like Kingdom of the Spiders I fully expect to have supplements like interviews and maybe even a commentary track. What I do know is that the transfer will be uncut & shown in its original widescreen ratio aspect. This will be just like the one that was released in Japan that is very sought after. The uncut scene is a head ripping off scene at the dock toward the end of the movie.
The movie itself is about mutant man-sized killer salmon that wreck havoc on humanity. The late Doug McClure is the hero..
This is not a spoiler but this movie contains some graphic gory violence as well as brief shots / flash cuts of the monsters mating (raping actually) with females. Yes, its pretty gory and contains nudity. For these reasons this movie is not for young kids. This movie isn't a scary horror ala Halloween or Friday the 13th - but it is an action packed in your face horror movie - the monsters are human sized & slice and dice a lot of people. I have seen this film many times and it still packs a jolt. It is the closest thing we have to a modern day Creature from the Black Lagoon or a Monster of Piedras Blancas, but these creatures are shown doing what those monsters would do off-screen. A very well made B movie made by one of the best in the business - Roger Corman
I do highly recommend this movie if you haven't seen it before. I HIGHLY recommend getting this version of the DVD. There is no more need to spend $50.00 for a full screen bare bones release with this widescreen uncut DVD on the Horizon..
Look for Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, Attack of the Crab Monsters and Not of this Earth - the 1957 version out this summer..
3 Cheers for Shout Factory !! You done good ! :)
We need this one re-released August 6, 2009
Deimos (Alberta)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We need a new DVD re-release of this amazing movie. I would also like to see a sequel. Anyhow Humanoids From The Deep is a classic, great horror film with a very unique and well done story. The creatures look awesome, the violence is done very well, the atmosphere and monster scenes are done brilliantly with the fog and lighting. I couldn't ask for more when looking for a truly excellent horror film. Don't go in the water and even if you don't they will still get you.
 If creatures are your thing, worth checking out February 16, 2009
M. Ryan Fairbanks (Cleveland, Ohio)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Admirers of creatures, eerie scenery, and well done gore effects will have a field day with this one.
As a small seaside town begins collapsing economically, a ray of hope shines through when a big corporate cannery comes to town bringing with it a plethora of jobs for the struggling local fisherman. Most of the fisherman welcome the cannery with open arms, but some (our protagonists) remain cautious of its promises of economic prosperity. The doubter's suspicions are intensified when the corporate big shots announce that their resident scientist has developed a steroid that boosts the growth of salmon to proportions previously unheard of. As you could guess this doesn't turn out very well, the steroid mutates the local salmon into humanoids from the deep! (If you don't know what a humanoid from the deep is, it looks like a green scaly human with a fish head.) Not only are these creatures vicious predators, but they are urging to spawn...With females of the human variety! Gratuitous gore ensues as our heroes race to stop the mnayhem at its source before the town is destroyed.
It's safe to say that Humanoids more or less pure camp, but in the end it's an enjoyable movie. Some scenes are genuinely creepy such as the shots of the picturesque beach with hordes of the humanoids peacefully basking, that is unless they notice any humans present, to which they quickly become frantic and violent. The humanoid creatures actually prove to be a bit frightening. They are vaguly human-like in form, yet it's clear that they have no real thought processes other than their deepy rooted animal instincts to feed and spawn. The gore and creature effects themselves look fantastic. What's better is that they are shown frequently, but not too the point where the fun and shock of seeing them wears thin.
Humanoids From the Deep is good clean fun and I highly recommend it to fans of campy horror and sci-fi movies with good old fashioned effects.
Humanoids from the Deep Review from The Massie Twins November 1, 2008
thejoelmeister (www.GoneWithTheTwins.com)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Noticeably taking several cues from big budget horror films, Humanoids from the Deep still manages to create an enjoyable atmosphere and a few unique thrills to retain an air of originality. Combining an infinitely absurd plot with serious actors, decent gore effects, gratuitous nudity, and a pervasive foreboding score from James Horner culminates in a low budget horror flick that nearly breaks free of such impediments to offer plenty of scares and laughs, mostly in that order.
In this Roger Corman produced monster movie, a small coastal village finds themselves facing a deadly invasion when DNA testing on local sea life causes mutated amphibious monstrosities to rise from the waters and begin preying on the villagers - and attempting to mate with human women.
With their large, exposed brains and slimy green bodies, the designs for the "Humanoids" look like a cross between Swamp Thing and the extraterrestrials from This Island Earth. Knowing the limitations of their budget and creature effects, the filmmakers wisely chose to keep the beasts shrouded in darkness, and until about halfway through we never see the entire mutant. As legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman himself stated, the true monster will likely never live up to what the audience creates in their own minds, and here such words of wisdom certainly apply as the Humanoids' shambling long-armed awkwardness and fishy faces lessens the horror and amplifies the silliness. But in the end this is a B-movie, so the "people in rubber suits" creatures are expected and the amount of destruction and mayhem they cause is actually rather impressive.
In an interview with film historian Leonard Maltin, Corman admitted that he felt a sense of humor is very important in horror films - especially if you don't want audiences laughing in the wrong places. One of the major shortcomings with Humanoids from the Deep is that there are no obvious moments of humor - the laughs arise from cliché character stupidities and overly witless dialogue. In fact, most often the funniest moments are meant to be the scariest. This makes Humanoids from the Deep an effective schlock horror film, but by no means demonstrates the level of purposeful humor that Corman insists he instilled.
As a throwback to the science-fiction monster movies of the 50's, Humanoids does offer bloodthirsty fans the opportunity to enjoy the entertaining cheesiness with an added dose of violence, gore and nudity. Many scenes of nubile young vixens getting their clothes torn off appear to be added just for the sake of more nakedness, which of course is a greatly appreciated fundamental aspect of B-movie bliss.
- The Massie Twins
 Fishmen want human women with big boobs October 8, 2008
L. Cabos (planet earth)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Barbara Peeters classic 80's HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP is a real hoot from start to finish. A classic "B" movie with stalwarts like Doug McClure, Vic Morrow and Ann Turkel. Attempts to increase salmon production at a fishing town in the Pacific northwest has terrible results when the experimental fish escape to the open seas and are consumed by another fish -- which causes it to mutate and take on it's principal competitor: humans. It also drives it to mate with human females (well endowed human females I might add). The ending blatantly rips off ALIEN. The Noyo Festival featured a famous Monterey area Dixieland band, Jake Stock and the Abalone Stompers.
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