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* AnkleDrag: Jerry is pulled away by his ankles by a monster hiding under the water. The monsters similarly drag Peggy to their lair shortly afterwards.
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* BloodIsSquickerInWater: The fish monsters kill Jackie, Jerry, and several other people after pulling them underwater. When they do, large clouds of blood can be seen in the water.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The monsters are the result of [[spoiler:an experiment intended to accelerate the growth of salmon. The salmon escaped, and mutations in fish that ate the salmon led to the evolution of the fish people.]]
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* PetTheDog: Slattery is a racist JerkAss, but during the attack on the festival he risks his life to save a little girl from the monsters.
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* BlackComedyRape: Several women are raped by FishPeople; the film seems unsure about whether it's black comedy or serious horror.
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* ChestBurster: The women impregnated by the Humanoids die horribly as the babies rip out of their bellies.
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* MonsterMisogyny: The plot takes everything the 1950s horror movie monsters hinted at [[MarsNeedsWomen when monsters kidnapped young women]], and updated it for 1980s exploitation sensibilities [[{{Squick}} by showing monster-on-girl rape scenes]]. Quite infamous for its misogyny, despite being directed by a woman. She claims Roger Corman added more explicit rape footage later; he confirmed this in an interview on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs in 2021. For his part, felt that she had turned in footage far more tame than what she had originally agreed to shoot.
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* FishPeople: The monsters are a bunch of fish people who want to come ashore and, well, [[MarsNeedsWomen knock up the local gals]]. Oddly enough, this is something of a running theme in fish people-related horror stories, though this is a more explicitly rapey example than usual.
* MonsterMisogyny: The plot takes everything the 1950s horror movie monsters hinted at [[MarsNeedsWomen when monsters kidnapped youngwomen]], women]] and updated it for 1980s exploitation sensibilities [[{{Squick}} by showing monster-on-girl rape scenes]]. Quite infamous for its misogyny, despite being directed by a woman. She claims Roger Corman added more explicit rape footage later; he confirmed this in an interview on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs in 2021. For his part, felt that she had turned in footage far more tame tamer than what she had originally agreed to shoot.shoot.
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A 1980 Sci-Fi Horror directed by Creator/BarbaraPeeters and produced by Creator/RogerCorman's New World Pictures, that has humanoid creatures attacking a fishing town and its up to the residents and a biologist (Creator/AnnTurkel) to stop them.
The movie stars Creator/DougMcClure, Creator/VicMorrow, Creator/AnthonyPena, Creator/DeniseGalik, Creator/LynnSchiller, Creator/DavidStrassman, Creator/GregTravis, and Creator/LindaShayne.
It was released on May 16, 1980. It was later remade in 1996.
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* AttackOfTheTownFestival: The big fishman attack occurs at the town festival.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The movie features the "unsubtle, GratuitousRape" variation, complete with ChestBurster, though the titular Humanoids are mutant fish rather than aliens.
* MonsterMisogyny: The plot takes everything the 1950s horror movie monsters hinted at [[MarsNeedsWomen when monsters kidnapped young women]], and updated it for 1980s exploitation sensibilities [[{{Squick}} by showing monster-on-girl rape scenes]]. Quite infamous for its misogyny, despite being directed by a woman. She claims Roger Corman added more explicit rape footage later; he confirmed this in an interview on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs in 2021. For his part, felt that she had turned in footage far more tame than what she had originally agreed to shoot.
The movie stars Creator/DougMcClure, Creator/VicMorrow, Creator/AnthonyPena, Creator/DeniseGalik, Creator/LynnSchiller, Creator/DavidStrassman, Creator/GregTravis, and Creator/LindaShayne.
It was released on May 16, 1980. It was later remade in 1996.
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* AttackOfTheTownFestival: The big fishman attack occurs at the town festival.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The movie features the "unsubtle, GratuitousRape" variation, complete with ChestBurster, though the titular Humanoids are mutant fish rather than aliens.
* MonsterMisogyny: The plot takes everything the 1950s horror movie monsters hinted at [[MarsNeedsWomen when monsters kidnapped young women]], and updated it for 1980s exploitation sensibilities [[{{Squick}} by showing monster-on-girl rape scenes]]. Quite infamous for its misogyny, despite being directed by a woman. She claims Roger Corman added more explicit rape footage later; he confirmed this in an interview on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs in 2021. For his part, felt that she had turned in footage far more tame than what she had originally agreed to shoot.
