Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

mherrin-43253 Humanoids from the Deep: Directed by Barbara Peeters and written by Frank Arnold, Martin B Cohen and William MartinI had read about this early 80s movie many times in high school. There was an encyclopedia entirely about horror movies and I read and reread that a hundred million times. This movie came up a few times. I finally gave it a chance. Was it good? Not really in the traditional sense. It has the plot of Jaws without the hunting bits at the end. It seems more like Piranha. I wouldn't be surprised if Roger Corman reused script from that movie to make this. The title card for this read Monster(Humanoids from the Deep) in super tiny print. I think they might have been embarassed by that title. They shouldn't be. Embrace the schlock you are. You are a silly mutant fish man movie where the monsters take the women for their own procreating purposes and viciously murder the men in the process. The costumes are cumbersome and you can tell they are very cheap. They look like lumbering giant catfish people with stilt arms like early Freddy Krueger. They are not terrifying. The music says they are suppose to be but I'm not sure. This movie had some sleazy elements thrown for good effect. It was plainly obvious from watching it that this stuff was added after the fact to make the movie compete in the sleaze ball o rama that was horror in the early 80s. The practical gore effects were terrific though. Outside of those suits, the rest fit in well with the atmosphere of this movie. It is a very short film and it runs in guns blazing but still tries to maintain an air of mystery as to what might be happening. It works okay. This movie is a flash in the pan type of movie. It's not god awful. It happens in a flash and you forget about most of the movie except that it's about raping fish monsters. I give this movie a C.

fairlesssam A small town is attacked by the humanoids of the deep after experiments go wrong. The humanoids want to mate with the town's young women. They go round killing and attacking everyone, no one is safe.I thought this movie was fun. The cast is great and the acting isn't bad for a 1980 sci-fi flick. The humanoids looked fab, especially their bulbous brains! The plot is also good. The characters could have done with a little more development but all-in-all a watchable and fairly enjoyable sci-fi horror.

bowmanblue Please, don't get me wrong. I knew when I watched a film made in 1980 called 'Humanoids From the Deep' that I wasn't expecting a major work of art with dynamic character arcs, unique plot points or even reasonable special effects. I was simply hoping for a 'so-bad-it's-good' film. I got half of what I was looking for. It is bad. It's just not that good.I know it's a 'cult classic' therefore there are a lot of people out there who have found it both good and bad in equal doses, but I just wasn't one of them. When asked to sum up the plot, I simply say: refer to the title. It basically tells you everything you need to know. Monsters from underwater kill people. Oh, maybe I should say that they mainly kill MEN. Women, who seem to spend much of their time running around in bikinis, get other treatment – treatment that makes death look dignified in comparison.I've seen many cheap horror films, all of which used their lack of budget as a bonus. A horror film doesn't have to be expensive to be scary/good. This one didn't have much money for the monsters. And it showed. They're not really in it for much of the first half and, when they do turn up, they're not really worth the wait.The acting, despite having cult actor Doug McClure hamming it up, still isn't memorable enough to be that interesting. It was just all an exercise in tragic mediocrity. There are a thousand better monster films out there – a thousand that have better special effects, a thousand that have better acting and a thousand that are scarier. And, all of these are still cheesy so-bad-they're-good B-movies. It's not even worth comparing the likes of Humanoids From the Deep to Hollywood's 'big budget' horror films that are actually designed to be good, rather than bad-good.If you really like cheesy eighties monster movies then you might like this. I normally do, I just couldn't get my mind to sink low enough on this occasion to appreciate it. However, I am still tempted to watch the nineties remake! I guess I get what I deserve!

christopher-underwood I was disappointed in this, somehow never having seen it through the years, I thought a decent print of the uncut version would come as a welcome surprise. Actually, of course, the 'uncut version' is really the original version beefed up with sex and gore. Original director, Barbara Peeters wasn't too happy apparently and declined to shoot the extra footage herself. I'm not sure why, she had already been involved in several soft core sex films, but maybe she thought this was more 'serious'. Indeed, I think this might be the problem here. The acting is terrible and the direction too lame to cover that up and instead of getting some pace and excitement going we get serious talk about, conservation, discrimination and the evils of big business and dangers of messing with DNA. A simple exploitation movie can do without these diversions. So, for me the added footage is fine and the original, lifeless and dull.