Video for this Script on YouTube: Disembodied Screams
Roger Corman. That name should be well known to all horror fans. He was lurking somewhere behind the scenes on this movie. And if you don’t know who Roger Corman is, and why he’s a big deal. Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about him.
Corman was famous for handling the American distribution of many films by noted foreign directors, including Federico Fellini (Italy), Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), François Truffaut (France) and Akira Kurosawa (Japan).
He mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He also helped to launch the careers of actors including Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
Needless to say, he was a very big deal.
Moving on, like Monster Island this movie only has to get one thing truly right, the creatures, and this movie shines brightest in that department. Probably the best reason to tune in to it. I love the look of these creatures. Slimy and scaly with nasty mouths and big eyes and claws and long arms and tails and fins and on and on it goes.
These creatures look like nothing you’d want to mess with and when they get to killing they separate body parts nicely and when they don’t kill you they leave a lot of scars behind. That dude in the ocean with half his face ripped off – nasty stuff. Gore is no joke. Plenty of it to go around.
Score, amazing, another one of its biggest highlights. James Horner was the man making the music shine and if you don’t know who he is. Let’s let Wikipedia inform you of that.
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron’s Avatar (2009).
Horner’s other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner’s other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982),[6] Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991),
Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
Mr. Big deal for sure and his talent certainly shines in the score of this movie.
Moving on, direction was solid from Barbara Peeters and it was the last feature film directed by Peeters according to Wikipedia and also from Wikipedia, it says there was an uncredited Jimmy T. Murakami directing something behind the lense. Not sure how much he shot or what. But two directors, producer chaos. Sounds like the behind the scenes drama was a lot.
Location, perfect for a movie like this. The scenic little coastal town is a great backdrop for the horrors these creatures unleash. Acting, better than expected. Nothing good enough for Shakespeare but it gets the job done.
All in all, this was a nice revisit for me, and I do think this will get watched more often as time rolls on. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it more than twice throughout my years.
Now, the haiku.
Horny humanoids
Rising from the oceans depths
Coastal town attacked
When did you see Humanoids from the deep for the first time? How old were you? Do you enjoy movies like this? Let me know all that. Take care and have a good one.
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