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Release Date: 28 August, 2001 Retail Price: $14.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Humanoids from the Deep Reviews
A TRUE GORE MASTERPIECE, FROM THE AGE OF GORE (1978-1983)
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP WAS RELEASED DURING THE AGE OF GORE (1978-1983) IN 1980. INCREDIBLE FILM TRANSFER PICTURE IS NICE AND CRISP AND AUDIO IS LOUD. AN INTERVIEW WITH ROGER CORMAN DONE BY LEONARD MALTIN IS REALLY A NICE FEATURE ON THIS DVD RELEASE, THERE ARE ALSO A FEW OTHER TRAILERS FROM OTHER ROGER CORMAN MOVIES ON THIS DVD, ALONG WITH TALENT BIOS. ROGER CORMAN REALLY STRUCK A CORD WITH GORE FANS WITH HUMANOIDS. HUMANOIDS IS 80 MINUTES JUST LIKE THE OLD 1950S SCI-FI MOVIES. BARBARA PETERS DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB DIRECTING THIS MOVIE. VIC MORROW PLAYS HANK SLATTERY SO WELL THAT I COULD REALLY BELIEVE THIS HANK CHARACHTER EXISTED. DOUG MCCLURE PLAYS THE CALM AND STEADY JIM HILL. ANN TURKELL A BELIEVABLE SCIENTIST.ALL THE OTHER LESSER KNOWN ACTORS REALLY FUSED THE SCRIPT AND THE STORY OF HUMANOIDS REALLY WELL. A YOUNG ROB BOTTIN DOES AN AWESOME JOB IN THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OF THE MUTATED HUMANOIDS, ROB BOTTINS EFFECTS WORK WAS DONE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HUMANOIDS IN 1979, WAY BEFORE COMPUTER ANIMATION. I THINK THE EFFECTS WERE QUITE BELIEVABLE EVEN THEN IN 1980 AND EVEN TODAY. THE HUMANOIDS ARE A REALLY BELIEVABLE MONSTER, LONG TEETH, LONG SHARP CLAWS.I COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT THEIR SCREECHING AND WAILING BUT I THINK IT FIT THE HUMANOIDS PERFECT. EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN STORY BY FRANK ARNOLD AND MARTIN B.COHEN. THE ENDING TO HUMANOIDS WAS SHOCKING FOR ITS TIME, BUT REALLY QUITE COMMON AS WITH GORE MOVIES AT THIS TIME (1978-1983). DIRECTORS AND WRITERS OF THIS FILM GENRE WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO SHOCK FILM AUDIENCES WITH GORY EFFECTS DURING THIS TIME IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. KEEP IN MIND HUMANOIDS CAME OUT DURING THE AGE OF GORE BUT ALSO BEFORE THE MPAA GOT INVOLVED IN CONTROLLING CONTENT IN MOTION PICTURES. HORROR GORE MOVIES LIKE HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP GOT AWAY WITH ALOT OF REALLY GORY EFFECTS. THIS MOVIE SHOULD, I HOPE WILL KEEP YOUR INTEREST, THE THING I LIKE ABOUT HUMANOIDS IS THE BLACK HUMOR, BLACK HUMOR ASIDE,VIEWING THE END OF HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP WILL LEAVE YOU THINKING "WHAT IF THIS REALLY HAPPENED?". IF YOU HAVE 80 MINUTES TO SPARE ON SOMETHING WILD WATCH HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP THERE IS LOTS OF GORE AND AN AWESOME CLASSICAL SOUNDTRACK BY A YOUNG JAMES HORNER, GREAT ROB BOTTIN MONSTER EFFECTS, POLITICAL ISSUES ABOUT OVER LAND DEVELOPMENT, AND BY THE WAY A FEW GEORGEOUS LADIES TO AD TO THIS SHLOCK FEST.
I think Roger Corman has done alot of drugs, thats good though!
Campy, cheesy Corman film, thats why we love him, bad effects, big breasted women, poor dialogue, who cares, it's only 90 minutes, and quite fun too.
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