Humongous (1982 film)
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Humongous movie poster
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| Directed by | Paul Lynch |
| Produced by |
Anthony Kramreither (producer) Michael Stevenson (executive producer) (as Michael M. Stevenson) |
| Written by | William Gray |
| Starring |
Janet Julian David Wallace John Wildman Page Fletcher |
| Music by | John Mills-Cockell |
| Cinematography | Brian R.R. Hebb |
| Edited by | Nick Rotundo |
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| Distributed by |
Astral Films Embassy Pictures Corporation |
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Release date
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June 11, 1982 |
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Running time
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94 minutes/97 minutes (USA) |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | CAD$2,000,000 (estimated) |
Humongous is a 1982 horror film (also containing elements of splatter/slasher films), starring Janet Julian and David Wallace. The movie is directed by Paul Lynch. There are two versions of the film. The American version is rated R, and omits some violent scenes. The Canadian version is unrated and contains all of the footage removed from the US version.
It is Labor Day weekend, 1946. Young, virginal Ida Parsons innocuously plays as her father hosts a raucous party. Amid the festivities, an older, drunken man named Tom Rice staggers outside and propositions Ida. When she refuses, he chases her into the woods and brutally rapes her; her dogs break out of their pen and they attack and fatally maul Ida's rapist.
The film flashes forward to 1982. Preppy brothers Eric and Nick are borrowing their father's yacht to take their girlfriends, Sandy and Donna, on a weekend outing along with their sister, Carla. At the outset of the trip. As the tensions rise between Nick and Eric, Donna and Sandy engage in girl-talk, and geeky Carla silently laments that she is the sole member of the cruise who came along without a significant other.
That night, fog settles in; Eric and Nick, hearing cries out on the water, discover and rescue a shipwrecked fisherman named Bert. Bert informs them that he wrecked offshore Dog Island, the home of lumber baroness Ida Parsons, who has used her family fortune to hole herself up on the island for the past thirty-five years; only making two annual voyages onto the mainland for necessary supplies, and never speaking to anyone during these trips. Recovering from the onset of hypothermia, Bert tells the quintet a campfire story about the savagery of the wild dogs which roam Ida's island, acting as her sentries. Wrecking their boat after Nick, in a panic, attempts to steer the boat back to the mainland.
Donna, Eric, Sandy, Nick, and Bert wash up on Dog Island; Bert has been seriously wounded, and Carla is nowhere to be found. Nick wanders off into the woods, and is subsequently killed by a hulking figure that breaks down the shed where Nick hides. The next morning, Sandy and Eric go off onto the island, hoping that Ida Parsons will help them get back to the mainland. Shortly after they leave the beach, Bert goes into shock, and Donna desperately tries to warm him by stripping to the waist and lying topless across his shirtless torso. Seconds later, the same figure which killed Nick sneaks up behind Donna and Bert, fatally hurling Donna against a rock wall and decapitating Bert.
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