Humanoids from the Deep

A horde of rapidly mutating and slimy frog creatures attack a small fishing village, intent on slaughtering the men and mating with the women. A deeply silly film about dudes in rubber monster suits chasing naked girls and getting shot up by rednecks. There's bunch of time wasted on a meaningless subplot about a cannery to be built in town and a group of Natives trying to stop it, but the whole thing gets chucked out the window once the blood starts to flow.

Doug McClure does his best Raymond Burr even though he was on set when this movie was originally filmed and it was filmed in English anyways. Caught this as the bookend of a four movie horror night at a drive-in theater. The racial tension adds racial tension to an otherwise species tense film.

It's pretty obvious that a lot of the sleaze was added late in the day to juice it up a bit (causing the female director to naff off), the monsters are very shoddy, and the subplot about a cannery and assorted conflicts is plain odd. The cast is interesting enough, although McClure was starting to resemble a well-built grandmother by this point. Its limited appeal really comes from the old monster movie flavour running through it. Rubbish, but quite good fun.

An 80's sci-fi/horror B-movie that feels like a trashier remake of some lost 50's drive-in monster movie. Starting off as a cheap drama with a surprisingly dark story about the land disputes over the development of a cannery in a small town between the local Native American population and some town folk, however that movie gets invaded by a gang of murderous/raping seaweed/frog-salmon/humanoids. Not really fun trashy, but it has enough wacky arm-flailing fish-men and boobs to stay entertaining.

A cannery company called Can Co. Yep. Besides the bubz this is worth the price of admission alone for the fight scene outside the rec hall near the start of the movie, oh my goodness.

This is kind of cool, in that it's a 50s monster movie transplanted into the 80s. The monsters are menacing and look good and there are some interesting themes as the establishes the setting. But then it all just stagnates and goes through the horror movie motions, leaving all this potential stranded.

Boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, carnage, boobs. Fin.

Classic monster flick updated with gratuitous gore and boobs. Something about a cannery and salmon, but they didn't bother with the ham-fisted morality message. In 1980 it was still possible to seduce a woman with ventriloquist skills. Bad news: no ultrasounds. Not cool of Corman to add sleaze afterward and ask an actor to do nudity after she signed on. Fav scene: after uselessly shooting at the creatures with their rifles, one guy figures out to use his harpoon gun to great effect.

If nothing else this movie demonstrates that men who wear denim shorts deserve to die and have their girlfriends raped by large lizardy-seaweed type monsters.

The Serial Rapists from the Black Lagoon. Good family fun with plenty of boobs, gore, vacuous characters and inane dialogue. Acting is all top notch, at least the dog anyway. The humans all sucked but that dog...WOW. The way he barked and then stopped, looked pensive, barked, peed on a tree, then barked again. Wait, maybe that was Doug McClure. Never mind.

My GOD this is a mean movie. This is one of those movies like Child Bride or The Blue Lagoon that, by its mere existence, says really dark things about humanity. Not least because this sleazy rape fantasy was directed by a woman! I don't even know how to parse that fact, but it creeps me out. That said, I have to give this thing some credit because James Horner's music and Rob Bottin's effects are really quite good. Those two build a lot upon this film, but the foundation is awful.

Remember Jaws?! Remember Halloween?! This isn't anywhere near as good as either of those. But what if Michael Myers was in the ocean?! Or what if Jaws could walk around the neighborhood?! Wouldn't that be awesome?! Okay fine, not awesome, but wouldn't that be almost kind of okay?

Not bad, all things considered, especially given how bad it could have been. It could have been very bad. But the characters are solid, the performances are decent, the pacing is tight, & the third act brings a surprising amount of chaos to the table. The gratuitous nudity is overdone a bit, but it's not a huge issue. I wish the aftereffects of monster rape had been explored for more of the runtime, that last scene felt choppy. All said, a decent watch that will satisfy that '80's itch any day.

This was half-decent for a B-movie. Decent pace and atmosphere, some decent scenes - such as the fun fair one. The monster costume is dated, but the acting is again half-decent. Overall quite watchable, although it's not on the level of the classic Creature from the Black Lagoon. The gratification elements are not too obtrusive either, with a couple of scenes providing some probably unplanned comedic relief - the one in the tent with the doll is particularly cringy and not in place, thus fun.

So bad its actually good.

Hard for me to hate on a movie that has the gonads to murder a young child & a cute pooch in the first 10 minutes, immediately followed by requisit '80s horror cat jump scare. This film isn't good, but it's got some great moments; overall worthwhile if sleazy monster schlock is your thing.

Wildly incompetent. Much more could have been accomplished with the (rather good) monster suits and handful of explosives used in the movie if a semi-coherent script had been written. Even accounting for the terrible acting.

a typical cheesy 80's sci-fy movie!

Criaturas das Profundezas estreava há 40 anos na Colômbia.Essa é a boa do Halloween. Cecalanto provoca maremoto indeed. Gosto do subtexto indígena versus brancos capitalistas e a cena final desse filme é o motivo do porquê o aborto deveria ser um direito em qualquer circunstância. Box Versátil Cinema Exploitation.

For me to enjoy, bad movies must be fun (intentionally, or not). This Creature From The Black Lagoon rip-off is just bad, and dull. Acting is horrible, story is horrible. I liked the arms of the creatures though. Wouldn't watch it again.

This is the trash u grandpa watched.