I watched this movie without reading the description. So I must say that if you have any question as to whether you should see this or not, read the IMDB description. That's literally what this movie is. There's nothing more to it than that. Early on there are some intriguing sociological and environmental story threads that are ultimately dropped in favor of nudity, rape, and murder.The basic primal premise of this is well executed both on the page and on-screen... and the final product is just as ugly and detestable as the humanoid creatures featured in the film. And now that i'm on the subject of the creatures I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that they were pretty neat looking for the period and budget range the movie was made in. And the action was pretty decent too, especially in the third act. I would only recommend this if you're a Roger Corman fan/completist, and are not in the company of children, easily offended woman, your parents, or anybody with taste.

Not much to say about this one. It seems better on paper than it ultimately did in execution. The plot's as trite as you'd imagine. Bad guys have poisoned the earth and literally created a monster (typical for the 70's) while yuppie/corporate scum is in denial about it and/or outright covering it up (as in Jaws).The actors were passable as for the most part they play things straight. James Horner puts way more effort into the music than he should have, strange that such a talented guy got stuck doing some of Corman's worst movies. Oh well, at least he graduated to scoring real movies eventually.I feel that the film's biggest flaw is listless point and shoot direction. Corman's notorious cheapness, by the 80's, was keeping talented directors away. And even if they had talent, Corman's relentlessly cynical approach to filmmaking made it very difficult to achieve anything creative or even interesting. That being said, Humanoids can't even reach the mediocre heights that Corman's early 80's highlights reached. Ya know, stuff like Slumber Party Massacre and Galaxy Invaders.The monster attack scenes are particularly lame. Lit much too bright, men in rubber suits visibly struggling to perform physical tasks with grace or menace, ineptly staged and edited as well. It's so amateurish that it fails to even offend in spite of the rapes and nudity. Like some death metal band that strives so hard to be shocking, it's too childish and inane to be worthy of one's further attention or lasting feelings. A low budget is no excuse. Halloween didn't need a big budget to be polished, creatively sophisticated, and original.Lamentably, Corman would actually get progressively worse after the early 80's. To the point of churning out bland remakes of his back catalog in the 90's.As for the director being a woman, big deal. Corman wasn't fooling anyone. Junk is junk, doesn't matter what the director's gender is.

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.

Anything connected to Roger Corman has got to be worth a look. Humanoids, half-man, half-fish are product of scientific experiments gone bad. A sleepy coastal village that depends on the fishing industry is attacked by wet creepy monsters. These accidental man-made creatures come ashore to kidnap young nubile women with the intention of impregnating; and they kill any man that interferes. Doug McClure plays his usual good guy role and hero to the rescue. Vic Morrow is the perfect a**hole, who is to profit from the experiments. These sea monsters are pretty fearsome looking; but you only see three or four at a time in any scene. Also in the cast: Cindy Weintraub, Denise Galik, Meegan King, Anthony Pena and the attractive Ann Turkel. Well worth watching; decent special effects and an above average musical score from James Horner.