A woman (let's call her Miss Future Desiccated Corpse) is raped by a supposed friend of hers. Her German Shepherds don't take kindly to this sort of behaviour and rip him to shreds.
Thirty-six years later (the film is very precise about this date for no reason I could explain) three siblings - Good Boy, Jerk and Girl with Glasses - are out on a boat trip with the boys' girlfriends - Good Girl and Slut - (Girl with Glasses has no boyfriend, of course - she's wearing glasses, d'oh). The night is getting rather foggy, and shortly after they have picked up Slightly Dubious Stranger who got himself stranded in the middle of nowhere, Jerk's jerkiness leads to their boat's destructive acquaintance with a bunch of rocks.
Fortunately there's an island nearby. If you can believe Slightly Dubious Stranger, it's inhabited by an old woman and her German shepherds.
Well, who or whatever lives there doesn't like guests much (unless they're its dinner) and starts killing our heroes off one by one. Will Good Girl turn out to be the Final Girl, too?
Humongous starts out with one of the more unpleasant rape sequences in horror, but after that mostly stays away from high nastiness. In fact, it plays out as a rip-off of Anthropophagus without the gore and without Joe D'Amato's (misguided but present) visual talent (you know, the things that make Anthropophagus interesting), making it a typically mediocre piece of the 80s slasher wave. Some of the mandatory "stumbling through the old dark house" scenes have a little atmosphere and there's a nice moment "inspired" but the best scene of Friday the 13th, Part 2, but that's all the film has to recommend itself.
Seeing that it was directed by Paul Lynch, who was also responsible for Prom Night, that's more than I would have expected.
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