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DVD : Humanoids From the DeepIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Anthony Pena directed by: Barbara Peters, Jimmy T. Murakami  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305325819 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 6305325812 Label: New Concorde Manufacturer: New Concorde Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: New Concorde Release Date: June 15, 1999 Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: New Concorde Theatrical Release Date: 1980 Sales Rank: 18946 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Humanoids from the Deep Review from The Massie TwinsNoticeably 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Fishmen want human women with big boobsBarbara 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 ... Read More Rating: - A Little Something For EveryoneI'm conflicted. I, like many taxpayers, am insensed by the recent Federal bail out of Wall Street investment firms that were "too big to fail." But, I think GMO's are awesome and am sympathetic to the corporation's work to build a better salmon. Ultimately, relentless pursuit of the bottom line (and not genetic engineering itself) ruined a good thing when Canco's operations produced a race of amorous and bloodthirsty fish-men. It just goes to show you can't trust Corporate America do do the ... Read More Rating: - A tasty dollop of campy horrorOh, this was a funny time. Movies usually seen only on the nascent HBO. This film harkens back to the late 50s/early 60s b/w Corman classics, with what Frank Zappa aptly called "Cheepnis". My favorite momment was when one of the beasts encounters a bikini-clad gal on the beach, apparently he needed to pull her top off in order to get his amphibious rocks off. And he didn't even call her later. Rating:  - Wait, this looks familiar...Humanoids from the Deep (Barbara Peters, 1980) Perhaps the worst insult I can pay a film, from my own experience, is my not remembering I'd seen it before until I'm at least halfway through the movie. It's usually the oddest things that make me remember I've seen a film before. In this case, it was Anothony Pena's entirely innocuous "I've caught a bunch of steelhead I need help eating, wanna come?" line. From there, the deja vu came thick and fast. When the dock collapsed, I knew I'd seen it before ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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