Gulliver's Travels and continue as pirates. He is abandoned in a landing boat and comes upon a race of hideous, deformed and savage humanoid creatures to which he conceives a violent antipathy. Shortly afterwards, he meets the Houyhnhnms, a race of talking horses. They are the rulers while the deformed creatures that resemble human beings are called Yahoos. Gulliver becomes a member of a horse's household and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms and their way of life, rejecting his fellow humans as merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason which they only use to exacerbate and add to
Humanoids from the Deep of "Creature from the Black Lagoon"-inspired monsters. Like it or not, it was a hit and is not dull". Author and film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film 3 out of a possible 4 stars, calling it "fast, occasionally hilarious gutter trash from the Roger Corman stable". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on nine reviews with an average rating of 5.2 out of 10. The film was referenced in the 1985 novel "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason. In 1996, a remake of "Humanoids from the Deep" was produced for Showtime by Corman's