 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review. So let me get two things out of the way two apologies up front One I apologize if you end up hearing some people mowing the lawn in the background Hopefully that doesn't get picked up But this is what happens when you live in a townhouse and you're making videos The other thing is I'm gonna try to get my energy level to where I usually am But I have to apologize. It might not be there I'm kind of battling something at the moment and my voice may also sound kind of different because of that But let's move ahead and see how well I can do things reviewing humanoids from the deep which is a 1980 film done by Roger Corman production company directed by Barbara Peters and when I'm revealing this it is currently it is streaming on the shutter horror streaming service So first of all something for people to know if you haven't seen this movie and you're watching this review It is a Roger Corman production now if you're not familiar with Roger Corman He does a lot of kind of like low budget not really like good movies But there's inspiration to him and they made enough money. I mean, he's like 94 right now and he's still making movies like this I think one of the ones that was more recent ish That actually caused some waves that people were into but was like a bad movie But like fun bad was shark to puss So he's still doing it. He's still making these things happen and humanoids from the deep when you watch it I mean going in if you know, it's a Corman film. You should know It's gonna be like not a good film So I'm gonna have two different star ratings at the end of this one for an actual like Overall film star rating and one for like a bad a fun bad movie rating So that's what I have to do with these types of films So anyway, like I said, it was directed by Barbara Peters but it was originally offered to Joe Dante and I'm assuming that one of the reasons that was the case is because This was in 1980 in 1978 Joe Dante did piranha. Well, that's when it was released at least so being um water-based and You know Havoc being reeked on a town because of these water-based creatures I figured they were like, oh well Joe Dante's done something just like this and I mean just like this if you see the Original Piranha, and then you see humanoids from the deep aka monster You'll be like these movies are very very similar. They're very similar I wouldn't be surprised if they basically looked at the the movie and the script for Piranha, and we're just like we're gonna do almost the same thing But change some stuff here and there which you know like lower budget films independent. They do that So this was this film was released in Europe and Japan as the movie monster So in the United States, it was humanoids from the deep and Japan in Europe It was called monsters. So when I was watching the version that they have on shutter It says monster and then under it in parentheses says humanoids from the deep Which is really really small and I was kind of like had to get closer to the screen and strain my eyes to see that I was like whoa, but you know, I should probably wear glasses, but you know But the working title when they were doing the film was called beneath the darkness just so you all know interesting information Roger Corman was actually uncredited on this as the executive producer, but he was and then they Remake of this this is funny because I you would see this film and be like this is not married a remake a remake of this Was actually done in 1996 By Roger Corman's company, so he was just like man, you know what? I really liked humanoids from the deep You want to remake that? It's only 16 years prior, but go ahead So there was actually some controversy surrounding this film It had to do with the actual production of it So like I said Barbara Peters directed it and when she directed it like there there were supposed to be some Creature rape scenes on women because the whole tagline is like, you know When I say no spoilers in this like there are spoilers in the sense of whatever's in kind of like the log line or synopsis for the film There we go a little bit. I don't know. I'm sorry But so that's actually in the synopsis what I'm what I'm gonna say So the the whole thing is these creatures from the from the deep these humanoids from the deep They kill the man and then they rape the women's and so they were supposed to be These creature rape scenes in the film now when Barbara shot these She it was very shadowy. It was very dark because she don't want to show it super graphically And so I guess Corman didn't really like that So he had another director go in after the fact after the film was completed and reshoot those rape scenes and The guy who did it was James Bartolotti never even heard of this guy So he reshot that now a lot of the people who were involved in the film didn't know that that was going on So when it was found out people like Barbara Peters the director and Ann Turley, yeah, Ann Turley one of the main actresses in the film said I'm not cool with this. I want my name now taken off of this But Corman and his company refused and we're just like no so Against their own will their names are still tied to this film now. I will say having seen it Two things like I don't think the rape scenes are as messed up in graphic as doing this research Would make it seem before I was watching the film But at the same time the rape scenes actually don't really add much of anything either So they easily could have just stuck with whatever the more shadowy Less graphic versions were and it would have been totally fine My only assumption is they went with the more graphic version because they wanted nudity They wanted to be more lurid, you know It was 1980 in the 80s 70s horror film was going for a lot of like more lurid things more sexual things So that's just my thought on it. But watching it. I was just like it doesn't really add anything So it doesn't even need to be there. So I don't know you make a decision on how you feel about it Okay, so the town in this movie actually reminded me a lot of the town that you see in the film Dead and Buried which I forget what director did dead and buried but I did a review for it on this channel go look look for it Um, also no spoilers all my reviews are no spoilers, but that movie was fun. That was a good time I actually definitely enjoyed dead and buried more than Human noise from the deep Just saying to the beginning of it's really really hokey It kind of starts relatively fast with the actual action to kind of like pull you in Makes sense a lot of the the lower budget films feel like they have to do that get the gore out there get the creature out there let people know something's very awry immediately and Then they kind of back off a little bit and then build things back up and then things get crazy eventually and this kind of follows that There there's a lot. There's a large theme in this a fear of industrialization so Like companies coming into smaller towns saying, oh, we're going to make these changes We're going to start doing this. We got this technical technological advancement That's basically going to make you obsolete what you're doing now for a job But somehow we're going to create jobs and this is actually a theme that you see in a lot of horror films that have this type of of Story line and this type of formula to it And um, I mean it's a legitimate fear. It was a legitimate fear then it's actually a very legitimate fear now Because with automation it just keeps going and going and going and progressing and progressing and progressing So i'm kind of surprised we're not seeing a lot more of that type of theme showing up in horror again But give it time You know these these things like trends tend to recycle themselves So it's quite possible that that's going to happen again And I would like to see it to be honest. I I think it I think it plays well in horror It's kind of a cool theme, especially when it's tied into like a creature feature, you know, like like what this is That's kind of cool. Um, and it's also kind of a little bit about Fighting these corporations who are coming in and they kind of have no soul So it's kind of like they're totally driven by money They're like we're going to do this that and the other and they make these terrible decisions Based solely on money that have these terrible in this case ecological impacts that then become impacts to human beings Make them die And then it's this big fight against these people to say, hey, you know, not only are you coming in and changing things I'm changing our way of life, which we don't like you're taking our jobs away and now In horror movies, you're taking it to the crazy level of it's killing us basically and that's very much a play in this and it works I mean, I think it works But like I said, it's very much piranha like if you've already seen piranha I don't know that you need to see this but there's fun to be had in this film. I will say That thing's bad. Um, it's not the worst But it's also if you think about low budget horror in 1980 You probably have a good idea going into what it's going to be a Kind of like so, you know Um, you can see Actually some jaws elements in this film, which is important to also know, you know, piranha was in 1978 jaws was in 1975 So five years prior you have jaws then three years after that you have piranha then two years after that you have humanoids from the deep. So obviously humanoids from the deep is very heavily Leaning on what it's seen in piranha, but also what it's seen in jaws And I'm sure piranha was heavily leaning on what it saw in jaws. So it's kind of this You know, there's there's a horror film. You see it a lot There's a horror film that has a huge impact. It's very popular And then other people keep taking parts of that or taking large chunks of that and making their own version Uh, but just changing it a little bit and trying to make money off of that. So humanoids from the deep and actually it's funny because if you think about it that way It's like jaws piranha humanoids from the deep. It decreases in quality and interest Basically, it's like jaws was really good. Piranha was actually pretty solid and humanoids from the deep is not really good But kind of fun. So But that's how it usually goes Practical effects actually don't look too bad in this. I want to say that from the standpoint of the kills in the film Um, they're they're relatively quick. They're they don't have a whole lot of detail But for what they are they don't look that bad and I was actually kind of impressed with that The other thing is the the creatures themselves For a lower budget 1980s creature feature like this, you know something from the deep um Think about what you would expect Based off what I just said and think maybe slightly better than what your expectation would be It's not great. They don't look great, but they don't look terrible either There are some uh elements of the design of the creatures that are kind of funny and weird and don't Don't play all that well, but there are some aspects that kind of do play well And they always look like shiny and wet and like slimy which I think that always plays well, especially with like sea creatures So I like that aspect of it um I wrote down man these fishermen only drink and fish and I'm not even sure these people sleep at all That's another thing. I you never see anyone sleeping. You pretty much never even see anyone eating in this film It's just like drinking and fishing and then worrying about and dealing with this Giant creep sea creature issue. That's pretty much it. I just found that kind of funny The scientific examination scene which there always has to be one in these types of films that gets actually pretty funny I really did enjoy that scene the um the dialogue within it is particularly what's good about it So if you haven't watched it just wait for that scene it's really good If you have watched it, you know what i'm talking about put some comments down there Let me know your thoughts And then the last thing I put down is that the end of it is by far the best portion of this film It does have a relatively good payoff at the end with the salmon festival in this town Which not a spoiler because it's in the synopsis of it upfront um Yeah, things get crazy. It's kind of seems like maybe they go too far and it goes on for too long But man, I just remember watching that scene and just being like They set up a lot of stuff in the scene To knock it down and destroy it basically, but it's like mass chaos total havoc It's a pretty good time. It's pretty cool. And like I said, like that's clearly the best part of the film It is a bit of a payoff because honestly up until that point I was like I don't really know how I feel about this. I'm just kind of going thumbs down on it until that happens So good way to kind of wrap it up. Anyway, uh, like I told you, I'm going to do two different star ratings on this So it's always out of five stars with half stars in play. So for my straight up film stars rating I give you a one and a half star as an overall film compared to all films one and a half stars For trying for effort and the end scene And the creatures didn't look too terrible for the time period Now for like fun bad movie ratings, I'm going to give it a three I would have given it a two and a half if it weren't for the last like 10 minutes of the film So it would have been two and a half, but I'm going to give it a three straight up Uh, I would recommend it for people who like creature features, especially like low budget older creature features I think it's a pretty good time, especially people who like specifically Aquatic creature feature films, which I feel like is like a sub sub genre Because like creature features the sub genre of horror and then aquatic creature feature would be sub sub genre Let's start talking about sub sub genres What do we call those multi sub genres? I don't know micro sub genres Maybe I don't know. 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