Monster of the Day #3642

Updated on December 12, 2024 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

Roger Corman (strictly a producer by then) was not afraid to follow trends. In fact, he insisted upon it. So Humanoids of the Deep contained copious gore and nudity and an entire plot built around monsters raping women, who then were ripped apart from the inside during, er, monster birth. (Wonder where they got that idea from?) So…date night!

They wanted the Gillman to do a cameo, but he was like, “Uh…no.”

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  • Eric Hinkle

    Wow. That sounds a little sick for a Corman movie.

  • Gamera977

    I was thinking 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' with the whole sea monster molesting human women thing.

    And ANOTHER pet peeve I have over modern Lovecraft knock-offs is I think the only Lovecraft story 90% of them have read is 'Innsmouth'. The recent collection I read almost all the stories are about Deep Ones. It's only when I got further toward the back I found a couple of stories about the fungi from Yuggoth and 'The Dunwich Horror'.

    There was even some guy on YouTube going on about to write a Lovecraft story you must have salt water, tentacles, and the ocean. Um, 'The Dreams in the Witch House', 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Whisperer in Darkness', and 'The Shadow Out of Time' don't really use any salt water, tentacles, or the ocean. And they're all some of Lovecraft's finest stories IMHO…

  • Ken_Begg

    It was the fashion of the day, like wearing an onion on your belt. Remember, nearly every b-action movie of those days had either (or both) a rape or a strip club scene. Rape was just considered a way to get "sex" and "violence" elements in one fell swoop.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I get tired of everyone in Lovecraft fandom over-focusing on 'Shadow over Innsmouth' myself. Though they're not strictly speaking Lovecraft stories, rather being rewrites he did for, I think, Zealia Bishop, I'd like to see someone use 'The Curse of Yig' or 'The Mound' as the background for a story.

    Or write about the ghouls. Though I saw at least one such story, that was written just a few years after HPL died, Robert Barbour Johnson's 'Far Below'. It's a story that deals with the hidden war between the NYCPD's Special Subway Squad and the horde of ghouls swarming under the city streets. It virtually demands a cinematic treatment. Just start off with some urban explorer types doing a video for their podcast or whatever where they venture into some old abandoned section of the New York subway system and they stumble into the middle of a battle between the cops and the ghouls, and it goes from there. Like an urbanized American version of 'Trollhunter'.

  • Gamera977

    Cool! I've read the Bishop stories years ago and enjoyed them. I think they were about an American Indian curse or someone killing a bunch of snakes and honking The Father of Serpents off?

    'Far Below' I haven't read though. Sounds cool! Lovecraft ghouls are pretty cool and different enough from the standard undead ghoul to be really interesting. I always thought the Chaosium adventure about the missing library books that turn out to be stolen by a guy who turned into a ghoul looking for reading material while lounging around the graveyard to be a neat idea for an adventure.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yes, Ms. Bishop was writing stories set in Oklahoma. She used American Indian myths in her work, and made up Yig the Father of Serpents, who put curses on people who killed his scaly children.

    I remember that adventure with the guy-turned-ghoul stealing his old books, too! It was one of their more fun adventure ideas.