Humongous

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Audience Member The pre-credits sequence for Humongous involves a woman being raped but then rescued by her German Shepherd dogs. The film then moves forward to a bunch of kids going sailing and becoming stranded on an island supposedly populated by the woman featured earlier and her dogs. This film is a massive borefest. Unlikeable teens, a non-existent plot, a complete absence of tension and a picture that is wayyy too dark (although I'm wondering if this is just the print used for the DVD. Also, the sound was really bad. Maybe that was also the result of a bad print. If not, why film a movie that's too dark and sounds like the sound recordist is having an acid trip? If it is just the print, I'd actually sit through a Blu ray restoration if a decent print was found and both sound and vision were cleaned up. I'm curious to see a version of the film where you can see and hear what's actually happening). There's even a sequence that is a complete rip-off of part of Friday the 13th Part 2 (a much better film). But the real shocker here is that this film was made by Paul Lynch who directed Prom Night, a movie that is as great as this is terrible. Also, Janit Baldwin from the much better movie Ruby is underused as part of the cast here and she's made to have possibly the worst hairstyle I think I've ever seen in a horror movie. In fact, if they filmed her getting this brown bird's nest of a ‘do' instead of what we see on the island, it would be more suspenseful and horrifying. Watch Prom Night, Ruby or Friday the 13th Part 2 instead of this turkey. If you want island shockers also check out Island of Death and Anthropophagus The Beast. But avoid this film. It's an hour and a half you'll never claw back. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Not the best slasher film, but the isolation of being stuck on this island did add some tension to the whole thing. Some of these characters are a little too obnoxious, that there needed to be better payoffs when they were finally dealt with. It's okay, just not the best. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/01/18 Full Review Audience Member This movie sits exactly where it deserves, at a 0%. While some of it is well executed, the story meanders and has nothing to say or do. The (more or less) quality actors are squandered as the movie waits around for something to happen. It all 'builds' to what I feared most--an on the nose and (honestly lazy and offensive) "monster" to see kill things then die. The movie also is continuously distracted by a need to sexualize everything -- camera angles, character decisions...this movie is a real shame. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member This early 80's horror flick is anything but a gem. The biggest problem is that you don't know what's going on because you can't see absolutely anything through 80% of the movie. It is so grainy and dark during the night scenes (when all the action goes down), you are literally turning your head side to side to try to get a glimpse of anything on screen. The story could have been okay, but the visual presentation just makes it way too hard to follow. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Now this is what Friday the 13th could have been. This has well drawn out characters, haunting atmosphere, and plenty of scares and suspense to boot. Though at times it's difficult to see what is going on, the story and suspense trumps these minor flaws. The killer which is only seen a silhouette is quite intimidating and his origins are quite disturbing even though most of it is revealed through dialogue. It is sad that they did not make a sequel to this since it has enough charm and energy needed for an entire series, a job well done. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member I might've liked this a bit more had there been more cannon fodder for the creature to kill, or had the 'friends' actually seemed to even like one another a little bit, but mostly I was left to wonder why they even bothered to spend time with one another and hope for another nude scene. Rental? Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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