absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) (10/16/85)
Reading so much about bad movies, I remembered this movie I say years ago which was quite bad, and I can't seem to remember its title. It was about these man shaped creatures who lived in a lake. They were the sideeffects of some artificial fish food that was supposed to enhance the fish population in the lake drastically (or maybe the creatures eat the fish, I can't seem to remember the exact details). Anyways, these creatures needed human females to reproduce, so this small town's female population was kidnaped one by one by the creatures (and some man were killed along the way). I don't know if anyone has seen this movie, or I was the only unfortunate victim (I deserved it; I just walked into the theatre, and I had no idea what kind of a movie I was going to see). I know the movie topped the worst movies of the year list in a newspaper (even if you don't care much for newspaper reviews, you have to admit that is not too bad). I don't think I would nominate this movie for the totally bad movies, because I thought it wasn't badly done, but the story was just so stupid that I probably won't forget this movie for a while yet. If anyone was so unfortunate to witness this movie, and you can remember its title, let me know, and also what you thought of it. It started by a little boy falling off a fishing boat because some huge "object" was caught in the fishing net (one of those creatures); then all we could see was a lot of blood, and the boy was history. The end was strange; a scientist lady found one of the girls who was captured by the creatures, and they wanted to perform the birth of the little creature. Sockingly, the neat little creature elected to come through the chick's belly. Fun movie, you say.
hammer@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/21/85)
Sounds like "Humanoids" (or maybe it was "Humanoids From the Deep").
David Hammerslag
University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield
Urbana, Illinois 61801
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hammer@uiuc.csnet hammer@uiuc.arpashiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) (10/24/85)
> > It was about these man shaped creatures who lived in a lake. They > were the sideeffects of some artificial fish food that was supposed to enhance > the fish population in the lake drastically (or maybe the creatures eat the > fish, I can't seem to remember the exact details). Anyways, these creatures > needed human females to reproduce, so this small town's female population > was kidnaped one by one by the creatures (and some man were killed along > the way). I believe the film in question is the infamous "Humanoids From the Deep" (lurid ads - "They came from 20,000 fathoms - and they wanted our women!!" or something on that order). I saw this on videotape with some friends one drunken night, and yes, it was a stinker. I believe that this general theme has been explored before in such fine B-movie offerings as "Mars Needs Women." -Steve Shiue "You better go to Rio, where they don't have Thanksgiving." -A very thin Tom the Turkey to a very fat Daffy Duck
bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) (10/24/85)
In article <16869@watmath.UUCP> absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) writes: >Reading so much about bad movies, I remembered this movie I say years ago >which was quite bad, and I can't seem to remember its title. > >It was about these man shaped creatures who lived in a lake. They >were the sideeffects of some artificial fish food that was supposed to enhance >the fish population in the lake drastically (or maybe the creatures eat the >fish, I can't seem to remember the exact details). Anyways, these creatures >needed human females to reproduce, so this small town's female population >was kidnaped one by one by the creatures (and some man were killed along >the way). The film you remember is "Humanoids from the Deep." The word "lurid" was created to describe this film. It starred Doug McLure and the late Vic Morrow, both who should have known better. Despite this, it is not a totally bad film -- for what reason, however, I can't imagine. -- Byron C. Howes ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch