InHumanoids: The Movie (1986) (V)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Genre:

Action | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Action-packed cartoon about the age-old fight between good and evil. Mysterious events start to happen...

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Based On Toy | World Domination | Independent Film

Cast

Michael Bell	...	Edward 'Eddie' Augutter / Blackthorne Shore (voice)
William Callaway	...	Dr. Mangler (voice)
Fred Collins	...	(voice)
Brad Crandall	...	(voice)
Richard Gautier	...	Pyre / Crygen / Magnakor (voice)
Ed Gilbert	...	(voice)
Chris Latta	...	D'Compose / Grana-Q / Tendril (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Herc Armstrong (voice)
Stanley Ralph Ross	...	(voice)
Richard Saders	...	(voice)
Susan Silo	...	Sandra Shore (voice)
John Stephenson	...	(voice)

Runtime:

UK:85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Sunbow Productions

Quotes:

Grana-Q: [as he sees a bunch of skeletons, that were once human but are now decrepit and decaying shells of their former selves, charging towards them shrieking.] They were once knights and now they are D'Compose's dark minions. Granites we fight to the death!
Herc Armstrong: But how do you kill something that's already dead?

Movie Connections:

Edited from "InHumanoids" (1986)

Unheard of until recently

I had never heard of this film until a friend mentioned that they had a copy and would I like to see it. 90 minutes later I could see why this is unknown nowadays. This looks like another Hasbro's attempt at creating a brand much like Transformers or He-man. Earthcore - the heroes of the film even have their own individual vehicles to ride around in. Was there a toy line for this film? I can't imagine parents buying their children characters like D'compose, a rotting corpse with an exposed rib cage and snakes head who turns people into zombies with a touch of his finger. Anyway, the basic plot follows Earthcore as they battle against 3 giant underworld creatures that the film is named after. Helping Earthcore are talking trees and rock men and a magnetic creature that's actually two in one. The animation is cheap even by the standards of the day. For example, one of Blackthornes' goons suddenly becoming two when Mary drives off in her car. One thing I did enjoy though was the use of split-screen during some of the fight sequences; shame there wasn't more of it. Oh, and one of the Earthcore members being named 'the Liquidator', which amused me for no apparent reason.