Humanoids from the Deep (1980) on Netflix
Anglers from the village of Noyo, California, haul up something that looks like a monster, and their boat goes up in flames. Jim Hill and his wife Carol see the explosion.
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- IMDb5.7/1012,738 votes
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Plot summary
Fishing boats working out of Noyo, California, bring up something that looks like a monster, and a boy on one vessel falls into the water and is dragged beneath the surface. A flare fired into the gasoline-soaked deck sets the boat ablaze. Carol Hill and her husband Jim watch the explosion. Their dog disappears, and they find its body on the beach. Two teenagers, Jerry Potter and Peggy Larson, swim at the beach, and something pulls Jerry under.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
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- Second-unit director James Sbardellati, later the director of Deathstalker, was hired to film explicit rape scenes for Humanoids from the Deep. The changes were not communicated to most of the people who had made the film under the working title Beneath the Darkness, several of whom expressed shock and anger at the released film, its changed title and the nudity.
- Director Barbara Peeters and star Ann Turkel asked to have their names removed from Humanoids from the Deep and were refused; Turkel also petitioned the Screen Actors Guild to halt the release, arguing that it bore no resemblance to the film she was hired to make.
- Director Barbara Peeters was fined $15,000 for making Humanoids from the Deep because New World Pictures was not a signatory to the Directors Guild of America. She took the job while recovering from an illness and unable to find other work.
- Joe Dante, who had just made Piranha, turned down directing Humanoids from the Deep because he felt it was too close to Piranha; Barbara Peeters, a longtime New World staffer, accepted the assignment instead.
