Humanoids from the Deep

Released in the UK in 1980 under the title, Monster and executive produced by Roger Corman, you can probably write the script yourself.

Imagine you were given a title and with a little b-movie knowledge and some, not much, but some brain power, were asked to come up with a film...this is quite likely what you'd get.

Starring Doug McClure (Warlords of Atlantis & The Land that Time Forgot), we begin in a remote American fishing village. The salmon are running low (running, get it...salmon run...Oh, I give up!) and a big company has come along to save the day. Now, the resident American Indians are up in arms as the company would end up destroying the 'way of life' and the locals are miffed at the Indians for trying to stop it all.

Turns out, the company has hired a scientist and she has been doing her best to genetically alter the salmon so they grow faster. Problem being, there's been a storm and they got out into the general food chain...blah, blah blah, local animals ate 'em and now there's these seven foot tall humanoid creatures that swim and eat folk.

There are, I'll be generous and say, homages to (not stolen scenes) from Alien, Psycho, Jaws and one of two other slightly more successful films of the era and the 1950's.

It's a fun film. Very low budget, I imagine (Doug McClure not with-standing), although the men in humanoid suits look "good" and there's a few explosions.

Fun Fact: Producer Gale Anne Hurd worked as a Production assistant on this film. I doubt she mentions that too much at dinner parties.