Monster or Humanoids From the Deep

I originally posted this on an old blog but and re-posting this today as the film was first released on May 16, 1980.

WARNING THIS REVIEW CONTAINS LOTS AND LOTS OF SPOILERS!

The other night I was trolling around Netflix and came across Humanoids from the Deep with a cover box art bringing me back to my days at Movie Gallery and what we called the glitter box rule.  I read the description of the flick and though, why not!

Humanoid from the Deep aka Monster is a Roger Corman produced flick, if you don’t know the name Roger Corman then you are a not a true fan of schlock cinema.  

Filmed on the California coastal town of Noyo in 1979, released in 1980, the flick is about mutated salmon, that’s right mutated salmon that have morphed into humanoid like creatures that run amok on this coastal town raping young ladies for the purpose of reproduction.  Survival of the species, if you will.  

Sadly the locals at first blame those damn Indians or one Indian in particular who is trying to prevent a fish cannery from being built by the evil Canco Company, the very company who’s growth hormone research on salmon created the aforementioned Humanoids!  

However once they discover the true culprits the band together to stop them.  Lead by local Jim Hill (Doug McClure, you may remember him from such films as Firebird 2015 A.D. and The House Where Evil Dwells) and Canco’s own Dr. Susan Drake (Ann Turkel) they manage to erratic all of the vile bastards from the face of the planet, or so they think.  

The film concludes with alienesque like one of the rape victims “giving birth” to a humanoid offspring as it bursts from her stomach.

At only 80 minutes in length they manage to cram in camp, sex, violence, racism, and mediocre special effects into a great little flick!  I can imagine this would have been a fun flick to go and see at the drive-in back in the day!

You should really check it out!

Mike