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Writer:
William Gray (writer)
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Release Date:
11 June 1982 (USA) more
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Tagline:
It's loose... It's angry... And it's getting hungry! more
Plot:
Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster... more | full synopsis
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If you could only see what's going on in this film half the time, it might have worked out. more (46 total)

Cast

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Janet Julian ... Sandy Ralston

David Wallace ... Eric Simmons

John Wildman ... Nick Simmons
Janit Baldwin ... Carla Simmons
Joy Boushel ... Donna Blake
Layne Coleman ... Bert Defoe (as Lane Coleman)
Shay Garner ... Ida Parsons
Page Fletcher ... Tom Rice
John McFadyen ... Ed Parsons
Garry Robbins ... Ida's Son
Mary Sullivan ... Teenage Ida
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Runtime:
94 min | USA:97 min
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Tom Rice: [before raping Ida] You're going to feel something now, old maid. You're going to know what you've been missing. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into 42nd Street Forever Part 4 (2009) (V) more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
If you could only see what's going on in this film half the time, it might have worked out., 18 July 2005
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Author: Scott LeBrun from Winnipeg, Canada

The setup and plot for this routine Canadian made horror artifact from the early 1980's are pure cliché: a troupe of not-too-bright kids go for a boating trip, and thanks to the monumental foolishness of the real prick of the bunch, they are stranded on an island lake where they get violently murdered one at a time by the deformed, mentally impaired "man" who is the island's only resident.

Many people have said it before me - professional critics as well as the folks who submitted user comments here - so I don't really need to repeat it, but suffice it to say, the fatal problem is the movie's utter lack of lighting. All I can say is, if this production couldn't afford artificial lighting, and had to rely on only what was available, the film must have had quite the low budget indeed.

The movie's back story is about a disturbed and lonely woman haunted by her brutal rape as a teenager (this takes place in flashback in the film's opening scene) and the subsequent birth of her bastard son, which she apparently raised in an unconventional way. There were once many dogs on the island, but once the old lady died, the son ended up devouring them all.

I'm enough of a horror junkie to have derived some entertainment out of "Humongous". It gets off on the wrong foot with its disgusting rape sequence - which is then compounded by some in-your-face gore when one of the girl's dogs comes to her rescue (a little too late, I might add). But I think that eventually there's some atmosphere to be enjoyed - the location work is okay - and the music score, at least on occasion, helped to create in me a feeling of unease, if not real fright. Most of those actors are stuck in dumb roles, and aren't good enough to really overcome them.

Horror aficionados will take note that the method employed by the lone survivor at one point is reminiscent of a scene from "Friday the 13th Part 2": she pretends to be the killer's mom in order to buy herself some time.

By the way, the monstrous killer is played by the seven foot one inch former Canadian wrestler Garry Robbins, who more recently played "Saw Tooth" in "Wrong Turn" (2003).

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