Humanoids from the Deep story

movie: Humanoids from the Deep (1980) · 1980-05-16

Some half-man, half-fish monsters terrorize the members of a fishing village. The film is also know as "Monster".

11 total · 4 major · 7 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
human vs. monster	major	Some half-man, half-fish creatures were going around killing everyone in the fishing village of Noyo.
human-fish hybrid	major	Dr. Susan Drake efforts to accelerate the growth of salmon inadvertently resulted in the creation of a race of man-eating half-man, half-fish monsters.
indigenous rights	major	Johnny Eagle was filing a lawsuit to prevent the Canco company from opening a cannery in his community on account that doing so was in violation of a treaty signed between the government and his tribe.
monster	major	Some half-man, half-fish creatures were going around killing everyone in the fishing town of Noyo.
boyfriend and girlfriend	minor	The young lovers Jerry and Peggy were attacked and killed by the creature while they were frolicking in the ocean.
brother and brother	minor	Jim and Tommy Hill.
father and son	minor	A fisherman's young son fell into the sea and was killed by half-man, half-fish creature.
romantic love	minor	The teenage lovers Peggy and Jerry.
scientist occupation	minor	Dr. Susan Drake was experimenting with something known as "DNA 5" in an effort to accelerate the growth of salmon.
unethical business practices	minor	Dr. Susan Drake claimed that her employer, the Canco canning company, forbade her from alerting the authorities when her growth hormone treated salmon escaped from Canco's laboratory into the ocean during a storm and were eaten by large fish that then mutated into the brutal, depraved humanoids that subsequently went about terrorizing the village of Noyo.