Humanoids from the Deep

Look, if you come into this movie and don’t set the ceiling low and the floor to almost impenetrable depths, it’s on you if you’re taken aback by this movie’s … “quality”. It’s an 80’s take on the cheesy 50’s nuclear monster movies, now with all the blood and nudity you’d expect from the slasher era. It was neither terrible nor terrific. The creature design was cool, the blood and guts were OTT, but the plot is boilerplate, and the ending is muddled. Oh, and there is the fact that the monsters kidnap and rape women to breed, which is icky, you’ve been warned. But it’s also a Roger Corman-produced movie, so if you don’t go in knowing that objectification of women is the coin of the realm, you must be new here (that’s not an endorsement of the rape aspect, just an acknowledgment that in Corman movies, women are there for two reasons — victims or voyeurism). I watched it, it was fine, and I’ll forget about it. I’ve had worse experiences recently.