WARNING: If you don’t like spoilers, do not read any further. This review will be full of them. Sorry, that’s just how I roll.
The trailer was my first exposure to this film. I remember seeing it on TV and it immediately caught my interest simply because of its title—HUMONGOUS! Based on what you see in it, you can easily assume it’s a monster movie, and that’s what I thought it was. I also thought it took place in a jungle and not the woods.
I didn’t end up actually seeing the movie until it hit cable, and it hit right around the time that HBO series, THE HITCHHIKER, was playing. The guy who opens and closes the show, Page Fletcher, is also in HUMONGOUS. He’s in the prologue only, and from what IMDB says, HUMONGOUS was his first acting gig.
As the movie went on, I quickly learned, to my disappointment, that it wasn’t the kind of monster movie I was hoping it would be. There’s a monster in it, no doubt, but it’s of the deformed man-child variety. I watched it regardless, and in the end it never made much of an impression on me. It’s funny, though, how your tastes in movies change as you get older. Movies you may have liked and even loved in youth, you may end up disliking or outright hating as an adult, and visa versa. HUMONGOUS falls into the latter category thanks to an opportunity I had, via a bootleg DVD I secured, by happenstance mind you, to see the movie before it hit “legit” DVD.
