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Wow, you can really tell this was made by 2 different directors

posted 19 years ago by Rexhavoc14
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The difference between the main plotline and the "humanoids-rape-hotties" subplot is so jarring it's hilarious.

[–] WarpedRecord 15 years ago

That's for sure. It really is two films in one, neither of them that satisfying in my book. It starts out as a cautionary environmental tale, and ends up an exploitive piece of cheese. Nothing gets resolved, and it ends pretty abruptly.

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[–] WarpedRecord 14 years ago

Indeed. The humanoid rape scenes are so over the top as to have little impact. Thanks for mentioning "Dagon" -- I need to seek that out (because I'm into Lovecraft, not rape).

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[–] WarpedRecord 14 years ago

I didn't want to sound like one of those creeps on these boards who loves to talk about rape. I like the Stuart Gordon films, but sometimes they're a little too "funny" or campy (intentionally), which seems to betray the dark subject matter.

[–] SalcedoMark 15 years ago

Yep, but still a great movie! :P

[–] filmbuff1974 14 years ago

by - Rexhavoc14 on Thu Jan 5 2006 10:58:45
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The difference between the main plot line and the "humanoids-rape-hotties" subplot is so jarring it's hilarious.

That really is amusing! When I looked at the credits and saw that a woman directed it I was quite astonished that a female would direct such a female exploitative movie. Of course a male would direct such a scene. Roger Corman must have looked at the footage in progress and decided to have a male director fill in scenes that would appeal to a grindhouse audience. The sad part is if those ridiculous fish monster raping nubile female scenes were not added, "Humanoids from the Deep" would never have become the cult classic that it has become!

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[–] prbronx5 14 years ago

I may be the only person who thinks that both storylines actually tied together rather seamlessly. It's a sci-fi, horror movie and the material was handled pretty straight forward. Well except for the ventriloquist scene, it was a pretty good movie.

Yes the ending was not resolved, but how could it be? The humanoids attacked, they killed a bunch of people and went back into the sea. So they weren't able to kill them all off. There were a lot of humanoids. Also I loved the ending with Peggy's "delivery", very well done.