Horror Movie Review: Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991)
With a title like Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan, no-one should be expecting award winning horror content here. What most should, and likely will, expect is bargain bin b-movie trash that entertains because it is so bad. Sadly, that is not what we get here.
Instead, director and writer Randall Dininni (alongside co-writer Michael Bertoldi) breaks the cardinal rule of horror, don’t be boring, and Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan is incredibly boring.
Looking and sounding like utter crap, the clues that the viewer is in for a bad time come immediately as we get narration from Jack Palance (yes, that Jack Palance). Which should be a good thing, except it’s utter nonsense and continues throughout the film in irritating fashion.
The story surrounds a monster, one created by a mad scientist, poorly acted (although that’s everybody in this film), and for reasons that boil down to the character trait of ‘mad’. Hey, at least he has a trait, nobody else in this film does. Anyway, he creates a monster-zombie- thing out of body parts, uses a potion of some kind, and viola, he has a monster. One who immediately escapes and goes on a rampage in the nearby woods.
Which is what should happen, except instead, we have the rubbish looking monster walking through the woods and occasionally killing someone off-screen. I kid you not, it can’t even get the horror part of horror right.
Unsurprisingly, this is not enough to sustain a feature length runtime, so to pad it out we have a ton of random characters talking about nothing. Which would be egregious enough, but a large portion of the film’s runtime is actually dedicated to the rock band, Cry Wolf, who spend a lot of time performing for actors awkwardly dancing (and a weird Peewee Herman joke) to their meh rock tunes. Did they help pay for the production? Are they friends with the director? Their inclusion isn’t that odd, as this sort of thing happens a lot, but the extent that they’re showcased is really freaking weird.
It also stops the film dead in its tracks, which isn’t that much of a challenge when you consider just how lethargic the plot is.
Speaking of plot, eventually we’re introduced to the lead, a young woman who is dreaming of the monster and seems to share a connection with it. It’s coming for her, but she might be the only one who can stop it. It at least gives the film a goal, even if it’s a journey not worth having (even more so when the end is so bad too).
There’s nothing to recommend here. Even the most passionate of b-movie fans will struggle to get through Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan.
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Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991)
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