L'umanoide (1979)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Aldo Lado

Writers:

Adriano Bolzoni (screenplay)
Adriano Bolzoni (story)

Release Date:

11 April 1979 (Italy)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Mystery

Tagline:

Light years beyond tomorrow...

Plot:

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr...

Plot Keywords:

Woman Soldier | Dog | Futuristic | Robot | Scientist

Cast

Richard Kiel	...	Golob
Corinne Clery	...	Barbara Gibson
Leonard Mann	...	Nick
Barbara Bach	...	Lady Agatha
Arthur Kennedy	...	Dr. Kraspin
Ivan Rassimov	...	Lord Graal
Marco Yeh	...	Tom Tom
Massimo Serato	...	Great Brother
Venantino Venantini
Vito Fornari
José Quaglio		(as Giuseppe Quaglio)
Attilio Duse

Also Known As:

Humanoid (Philippines: English title)
The Humanoid (USA)

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 (video premiere) | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Merope

Quotes:

Golob: Where in the cosmos did that space jockey get his license?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Arrebato (1980)

What a _CHEESY_ movie!!!

Aside from the goofy special effects and silly dialog, there's still plenty of lameness in this low-budget Italian/Turkish STAR WARS ripoff ...enough to keep most people rolling around the floor in laughter. The "villain" played by Ivan Rassimov (SHOCK, EATEN ALIVE, ULTIMO MONDO CANNIBAL) is one of the biggest pansies I've seen... even if his costume does look just like Darth Vader's... from his silly comments like "so you have come to battle me at last, princely hero!" to the way he cracks the whip around his cronies like "you failed to kill the girl! You are stripped of your command for 100 days!", I couldn't take him seriously at all. Wouldn't most villains kill their own men for disobeying them? No wonder the silly troupe of Leonard Mann, Corrine Clery, and Richard Kiel destroy his entire army so easily... and his death has to be the lamest ever filmed... "ack, my blue screen is dying!"

The Humanoid has a dynamite cast though, from Arthur Kennedy (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) to Barbara Bach (CAVEMAN) to Massimo Serato (AUTOPSY). Even better is the crew... from Enzo G. Castellari to Giannetto De Rossi, Antonio Margheriti, and Ennio Morricone. The only problem here really is that all these cool people did their jobs BADLY... This film is not only hilariously cheap, it's a real snoozer, especially because of Morricone's howlingly awful "sleepy spacey music" which never stops! The score has no tune or melody to it, it's just random music, but synthesized to a point where it's even worse than Morricone's score for COLD EYES OF FEAR. I'm usually a fan of stuff like this but you have to draw the line somewhere. This film is lame beyond belief, though not quite as bad as STAR WARS EPISODE 1: "THE PHANTOM MENACE".