Humanoids from the Deep (1996 film)

Humanoids from the Deep is a 1996 American film. It was a remake of Humanoids from the Deep and was part of Roger Corman Presents.^[1]

Plot[]

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The United States Army attempts to create the perfect amphibious soldier; they recruit Death Row Inmates to the program. Dr. Drake (Emma Samms) uses an unknown chemical on them and it transforms them into man-fish hybrids. However they are deemed too dangerous and ordered to be destroyed, but they escape, entering the sewers of a nearby town and finding their way to the open ocean. Meanwhile, at Harbor Shores, Canco Industries is polluting and putting chemicals in the ocean. Wade Parker (Robert Carradine) confronts Bill Taylor (Mark Rolston) about it. The next day, a fishing boat catches something in one of its nets - a young boy falls off the boat and is dragged underwater, the boy's mother jumps in attempting to save him, but is dragged under too.

Wade sees the boat captain being interviewed about the incident, he heads to the Hospital where he meets with Sheriff Barnes () and the doctor to see if the attacks match the bite of the shark that attacked Wade while he was underwater a while back, but it doesn't match, proving that something else is responsible for the attack. Meanwhile, Bill and two of his workers; Porter (Greg Travis) and Rod (Walton Goggins) start loading the toxins on one of their boats while unknown to them, Kim, Wade's daughter along with Matt (Justin Walker) and some of their friends are spying on them and filming them. After Porter and Rod are caught pouring the chemicals in the ocean by Kim, Matt and their friends, an unseen creature boards and kills Porter, but Rod accidentally blows the boat up as his cigarette falls into the chemicals which causes the ship to explode. Seeing the explosion, Kim and her friends contact the Coast Guard, Dr. Drake arrives in town having seen the news reports, disguises herself as a reporter investigating the toxins and attacks. That night, Kim meets up with her friends and they go skinny-dipping, but something pulls Kim and everyone under - except Matt, who sees a monster in the water.

Wade gets a call telling him that Kim is missing. He heads to the Police Station to bail out Matt, who is being interrogated, but nobody believes him about the monster that attacked them. Matt is taken to the beach, but he escapes and recovers the tape that he filmed. That night, a man and a woman are attacked while in a rowboat. Wade rescues them, but the man's legs have been ripped off, not before seeing the monster that Matt saw the other night. Taylor and his men attempt to kill Matt by lighting up dynamite, but Wade shows up and manages to save him. They are taken to the hospital to be treated, where they confront Dr. Drake who confesses that GRL wanted to test new technology, she refused until they took her work and went on the program to the create the perfect Amphibious soldier by using death row inmates, but the inmates began to mutate. They were believed to be dead, but it is revealed that they have taken women alive to reproduce with them in order to survive.

Later that night, a Humanoid abducts Taylor's wife; Fran (Barbara Niven) then another one attacks the Sheriff and his Deputy (Clint Howard) while in the sewers until Matt and Wade show up, burning it with an arrow. Taylor finds his dog dead and believes his wife is dead also, but he and his boys end up getting arrested when one of them confesses to blowing up Matt's cabin. Dr. Drake is being interviewed on live TV and attempts to show Major Knapp (Warren Burton) that the Humanoids are alive, who is watching the whole time. Meanwhile, at the Bar, the boy's mother shows up alive and goes into labor. An infant Humanoid bursts out of her belly and escapes into a storm drain, as they search for a cave Major Knapp and his men arrived to deal with the problem. Somewhere in a cave, Kim, along with other female victims are being kept alive and cocooned by the Humanoids. One of them attempts to escape, but is caught until her body washes up on shore with a hole in her belly.

Wade decides to bail Taylor out in order to save Kim, Fran, and the other female victims. They head out in attempt to put a tracker on one of the Humanoids, but one of them attacks the boat, kills one of Taylor's men and abducts Dr.Drake, not before shooting a tracker on it, but instead got a dolphin. Later, that night, the Humanoids attack a fair at the docks. Taylor, Wade, Matt, and one of his men arrive to stop it and head into the house of horrors, however it kills Taylor's men, but Taylor throws a bottle of fire on it and escapes allowing them to finally track it. They track it to the beach where Major Knapp decides to blow up the Humanoids, despite protests from Wade and the Sheriff, Matt and Wade steal a pair of scuba gear to dive under to save Kim, Fran, and Dr. Drake, while Taylor distracts Major Knapp's men. In the Humanoids' lair, Kim uses Dr. Drake's Lighter to start a fire to keep the Humanoids away.

Wade and Matt arrived in the lair and save Kim, Fran, Dr. Drake and the other female victims while fighting off the Humanoids by using fire against them. They managed to escape the lair before the timer goes off and explodes. Major Knapp begins to celebrate, but is attacked and killed by a Humanoid, which is then shot and burned by his men. The next day, all the victims are given pregnancy tests, but all are negative, Kim is reunited with Wade and Matt and Taylor is reunited with his wife. Dr. Drake begins to leave, believing the threat is over, but back at the hospital, the doctors realise that Dr. Drake's pregnancy tests turn out to be positive. Dr. Drake goes into labor while in her car, which draws the attention of some people, suggesting the threat is not over.

Cast[]

• Emma Samms as Dr. Drake
• Robert Carradine as Wade Parker
• Justin Walker as Matt
• Mark Rolston as Bill Taylor
• as Kim Parker
• Clint Howard as Deputy
• Kaz Garas as Sheriff Barnes
• Warren Burton as Major Knapp
• Bert Remsen as Duffy the Coroner
• Barry Nolan as Male Reporter #1
• as Fran Taylor
• Season Hubley as Timmy's mother
• Greg Travis as Porter
• Walton Goggins as Rod

Reception[]

The Movie holds a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

References[]

External links[]

• Humanoids from the Deep at IMDb
• Humanoids from the Deep at Letterbox DVD