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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Humanoids from the Deep
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 19:56:11 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 19:56:11 1985
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In article <175@pwa-b.UUCP> ocoin@pwa-b.UUCP (Terry O'Coin) writes:
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>An independent station in Boston recently broadcast a timeless film
>which I must comment on.  Have you ever had one of those nights when
>you end up having to choose between watching the bugs fry in your
>neighbor's electric bug zapper and seeing what's on the UHF stations ?
>I did.  I should have watched the mosquito executions.  WXNE channel
>25 in Boston broadcast the movie "Humanoids from the Deep" starring
>Vic Morrow and Doug Mclure.  Both of these actors have done some
>fine work over the years, excluding this film.

This film periodically makes the cable rounds in its (* ahem *) uncut
version.  If you saw it on an over-the-air station, chances are that 
the parts which provide this films attraction were gone.  The word
"lurid" was built to describe this work.  It has everything your basic
junk movie fan wants to see:  nudity, perversion, blood by the bucketful,
bad science, good ecologists, etc. etc. etc.   What you really missed is
that one of these fish-critters actually manages to impregnate a human
female (shades of "V", but I didn't understand the biology of that either)
leading to an "Alien" like birth sequence at the very end of the film.
Not for the weak of stomach.  Definitely for the weak of mind.

Doug McClure's career has been over for a while.  He needs these sorts of
films to make a living.  The late Vic Morrow's career was still in full
swing.  It's too bad this is one of the things we have to remember him by.

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						Byron C. Howes
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