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Director:

Paul Lynch

Writer:

William Gray (writer)

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Release Date:

11 June 1982 (USA) more

Genre:

Horror more

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

User Comments:

Quite interesting if rather bloodless little slasher 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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Additional Details

Runtime:

94 min | USA:97 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono


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:

Referenced in Dead Teenager Movie (2006) (V) more


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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Quite interesting if rather bloodless little slasher, 19 November 2006
Author: DrLenera from UK

Humongous has been largely forgotten amongst the glut of 80s slasher flicks. However,that is a shame. It's certainly no masterpiece,not even of the slasher genre,but it's quite interesting and better than quite a few of the other,similar films released around that time.

It opens with a brutal rape,and it almost gets the movie off on the wrong foot as although not that graphic it's hard to watch. Then we jump forward to the usual small group of young people discovering an island. Much time is spent of them wondering about,which does make the film a little slow,but there is a fair amount of suspense,sometimes underlined by the synthesizer score,which shouldn't work but does. As has often been said before,the film is too dark,but some of the photography is pretty good,which makes one wonder if the darkness was a deliberate experiment which didn't quite come off.

This movie was obviously {well,in the versions I've seen} heavily cut,during the killings we cut away just before we think we'll going to see something nasty. There's just about enough suspense to almost compensate,and the acting isn't too bad,but gore hounds will probably be disappointed. The climactic scenes are pretty exciting though and even though you still don't get much of a look at the monster,this is actually quite effective.

There's a underlying element of sadness to Humongous which is provided by the film's back story,and it's perhaps this which most sticks in the mind. Nothing in the film is especially remarkable,but it does have it's interesting elements. It certainly deserves a proper,uncut DVD release,and far more than some of the other films of this type which already have been!

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