HUMONGOUS starts out during a party in 1946 where a woman is raped by a drunk sex freak who intends to show his victim ''what she's been missing''. One of her male counterparts opens the kennel and her German Shepherd's come to the rescue, tearing the guy to shreds. Sure, he deserved it.
We skip down the road about thirty odd years while Sandy, Eric (David Wallace), Nick (Nick Wild), Carla, and Joy are at the end of their week-end getaway at their father's lake front home. They finish cleaning everything up and enter their father's yacht for the ride back.
As nightfall sets in, the fog rolls and makes way for some hard navigating. They soon see a shot from a flare gun and try and navigate the large boat towards the distress signal. To make a long story short, they hit some rocks after Big brother and Little prick brother fight over who has the bigger dick and Ka-Boom! The boat blows to pieces sending the passengers on board flying off into the water.
Everyone is accounted for except for Carla, but she's found the next day hiding in a boat. In the mean time, some giant bohemeth lurks the island and is quiet hungry. It seems as if his only source of survival (His mother) has died and the little problem of starvation comes into play. The sound of dogs once echoed throughout the island, but now every thing's dead quiet. Did he get hungry?
Humongous. Humongous. What to make of you. Paul Lynch (Prom Night) seems to have forgotten the fact that night scenes need SOME lighting. The night scenes are so dark that it's damn near impossible to tell what's going on. This is a big hindrance to what otherwise could have been a good viewing experience. Don't get me wrong, HUMONGOUS isn't THAT bad, but it's not that damn good either.
There are a few decent stalk and slash sequences and when punk-ass baby brother Nick gets his, it'll make you jump. It's hard to believe the makers of Friday the 13th part 2 didn't sue Lynch for his downright copied and pasted ending that involves our stalked final girl turning her back and pretending to be the killer's mother. She sweet talks him a bit and the rest is the equivalent of taking a shit in a dry toilet. You know you gotta, but you don't wanna.
There's not much to write home about. This venture just proves tho show that Paul Lynch couldn't make a good slasher movie if it bit him in the ass and sang the theme song to My Bloody Valentine to him. I know there's some die hard Prom Night fans reading this, and I seriously don't mean any disrespect, but true is true. It's not that good. Neither is Humongous.
Those damn Canadians are too confusing. If you're in the mood for a violent version of Scooby Doo that's too hard to see, then pick up HUMONGOUS.
3 comments:
I have not watched this one and it doesn't sound like something I will need to rush out and find. I did want to make a comment on your comment about there being some die hard Prom Night fans. I can't say that I am one of them. I liked the movie but I don't love it. They do to good of a job of setting up the story, we know why the killing will take place and who will be killed basicly right away. Who is the killer is pretty easy to figure out as well. Then again, maybe it is just the fact that I have watched so many horror movies.
I think you need to blame the vhs transfer for the lighting issues. I have seen the trailer in a theater no less, and it looked pretty stunning. I've since seen the film in Hi-Def and thought it looked alright.
I like Humongous, mostly because the premise is grand and the slutty girl and the final girl have an interesting repoire. Remember when women in movies acted like they liked each other?!? There's such a nasty vibe in modern horror and it's pretty lame. The scene where the slutty girl is talking about modeling (which is the Final Girl's job), she's really sweet about it. I miss that kind of writing. Prom Night has it too. The girls act like friends and it's plausible.
Both Prom Night and Humongous are probably better concepts than actual films, but Prom Night has this re-watchability to it that is like no other.
Good review, btw!
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