SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Paul Andrews Humanoids from the Deep is set in the small American coastal town of 'Harbor Shores' where 'Canco Industries' cannery plant is located, lately they have been suffering from protests by environmentalist's who believe that the manager Bill Taylor (Mark Rolston) has been dumping chemicals into the sea. Bill's friend Wade Parker (Robert Carradine) confronts him about it & is given assurances that no dumping of chemicals is taking place which is a lie as Bill has been dumping a growth hormone called 'Synestin' into the sea to accelerate the growth of the fish. An attack on a group of activists leaves four missing, including Wade's daughter Kim (Danielle Weeks), & one guy named Matt (Justin Walker) talking about sea monsters which no one believes, at first that is anyway. Genetic scientist Dr. Drake (Emma Samms) shows up & tells Wade that an army experiment to create amphibious soldiers went wrong & the mutated results are now loose in Harbor Shores...Written & directed by Jeff Yonis this was a made-for-cable TV remake of Humanoids from the Deep (1980), both were executive produced by Roger Corman. The script changes a few things & not for the better, for a start it brings in the obligatory teen cast, it cuts out all the gore, rape & exploitation from the original & introduces the clichéd army involvement & secret Government experiments as an explanation for the origins of the sea monsters, what I want to know is how Emma Samms kept a straight face as her character explained to Wade that these sea monsters are in fact death-row prisoners whose DNA had been mixed with that of a fish to try & create an amphibious soldier! This short passage of dialogue has to be heard to be believed, extremely silly & funny sounding stuff. It's a much smaller scale film, in the original it really felt like the whole town was under attack but in this there are only a few basic character's, the introduction of the army doesn't help & I just thought it was a step down from the original on every level. Having said that it moves along at a fair pace, the basic story of raping sea monsters is still the same & if you don't expect too much it provides a fair amount of fun & entertainment.Director Yonis does a pretty decent job & it looks slightly better than the average TV film, there isn't much in the way of scares, tension, shocks or atmosphere. To save money this uses footage from the 1980 original particularly during the scene set in the funfair, it comes as no surprise that our heroes are nowhere to be seen when all the carnage is taking place as they are seemingly stuck in a funhouse as the sea monsters attack outside, this footage is badly edited into the main feature & looks out of place. The gore is severely toned down, a ripped off arm, an Alien (1979) rip-off monster birth sequence & a guy with one leg missing is about as nasty as it gets. No nudity this time either.Technically Humanoids from the Deep is alright, it was obviously made on a low budget. The monsters themselves look like men in rubber suits because that's what they are although they don't look too bad. The acting was pretty bad.Humanoids from the Deep the remake is not as good as the original in any way but when all said & done I thought it was OK, it certainly passed the time harmlessly enough. Probably just about worth a watch but nothing overly special.

klynnm You are in dire straits when you remake a Corman movie and make it worse than the original. The original HUMANOIDS was fascinating, but this one feels like a Sci-Fi Channel TV movie - those are pretty terrible.I love Robert Carradine and it was nice to see that Justin Walker from CLUELESS is still around, but this was just boring!!! I couldn't even stay with it long enough to get to the Humanoids! Sure, I could have forced myself through it, but, at a certain point, you just have to ask if you want to spend 90 minutes of your life this way.I've seen the BUCKET OF BLOOD remake, which seems to be from the same "Roger Corman" presents series and it was far more interesting - better cast, better cinematography. Actually, though, come to think of it, I turned that one off too. Stick to the originals.

capkronos Animal rights protesters picket a fishing company because they're dumping the growth hormone "Synestin" into the ocean to bulk up product. Five giant, gilled monsters live on the chemical, kill people and knock-up kidnapped young women. Star Robert Carradine, playing the type of stubborn, embarrassing, single-father type whose character drives a beat-up old truck and drinks Pepto straight out of the bottle (so much for character development, eh?), teams up with an investigating scientist (Emma Samms) and others after his daughter is kidnapped.Much of the sleazy audacity from the wonderfully trashy 1980 original is dropped here, but some of the make-up FX are good and it still features two stomach-burster scenes, an eyeball that squirts blood, skinny dipping and naked, bloody women crawling out of a cocoon and swimming to safety. The carnival finale employs most of its scenes from the original feature (I recommend sticking with it).This was part of the ROGER CORMAN PRESENTS... cable TV series from Concorde/New Horizons (all of which were exec. produced by Corman). The end credits remind us that "No animal or humanoid was harmed or mistreated in the making of this motion picture."

Coventry Why anyone would want to remake a gory and filthy exploitation gem from the early 80's is a mystery to me. The original Humanoids was a nice viewing and a good change to observe, but it hasn't really got the potential to be re-told in a 90's sort of atmosphere. Yet, they did and I don't really have a problem with that…but it really drives me mad that the local shop sold me a copy of this ‘straight to video' version instead of the original! Damn, the DVD has the same cover and credits-list as the original but the DVD itself is the remake starring Carradine! Pay attention to this if you'd ever plan to buy it. The less interesting remake could be disguised as the original gore stuff! That said, I have to admit that even this version is more or less satisfying and certainly worth sitting through. Same story is told, only less explicit and more mainstream…Meaning that the violence and nudity is severely cut. An aspect that'll most likely lower the interest of fans of the original. Still, there are more than enough bloody and nasty sequences to sicken the inexperienced horror population. A guy's head is blown off, for example, and there's a woman giving birth to an ugly fish creature on a filthy bar-table. The costumes of the fish-people on the other hand are laughable and idiotic looking. They could have paid a little more attention to that, because it sorts of ruins the whole idea of the `horrible' mutations that they are supposed to be. The acting is overall decent and some familiar faces are included in the cast. Robert Carradine is a very decent B-actor who still is overlooked often…. The same could be said about Mark Rolston, by the way. Danielle Weeks just looks adorable while she's on-screen and Clint Howard walks around in this movie for no particular reason…as he does in most of the films he stars in. In general…you'll be better off when watching the original this thing is based on, but it's not an entire waste of time. Humanoids is easy to watch and overall entertaining with some good gory stuff and funny sequences. If you've seen the original, you'll also have quite some fun with discovering the references and the spoofs towards it.