InHumanoids: The Movie (1986)

Action-packed cartoon about the age-old fight between good and evil. Mysterious events start to happen when the government Earth Corps unearths an amber monolith in a forest; meanwhile, an ... See full summary »

Director:

Ray Lee

Writer:

Flint Dille

Stars:

Michael Bell, William Callaway, Christopher Collins

Cast

Credited cast:
Michael Bell	...	Eddie 'Auger' Auguter / Blackthorne Shore (voice)
William Callaway	...	Liquidator (voice)
Christopher Collins	...	D'Compose / Granahue / Tendril (voice) (as Chris Latta)
Fred Collins	...	(voice)
Brad Crandall	...	(voice)
Dick Gautier	...	Pyre / Crygen / Magnakor (voice) (as Richard Gautier)
Ed Gilbert	...	Metlar / Senator Masterson / General Crag (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Herc Armstrong (voice)
Stanley Ralph Ross	...	Redlen / Redsun (voice)
Richard Saders	...	Dr. Derek Bright (voice)
Susan Silo	...	Sandra Shore / Barbara Walker (voice)
John Stephenson	...	Granok / General Granitary (voice)

Storyline

Action-packed cartoon about the age-old fight between good and evil. Mysterious events start to happen when the government Earth Corps unearths an amber monolith in a forest; meanwhile, an unscrupulous businessman, Blackthorn, digs up a vine creature, Tendril, which frees the trapped undead beast, Decompose. Earth Corps must use their specially-designed armoured suits to track down the enormous monsters. In the process, the dormant Mutar species of Redwoods, Granites and Magnacore are reawakened, and join forces with Earth Corps to once again do battle with their centuries-old enemies, the Inhumanoids, in an effort to save the world.

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Plot Keywords:

human versus monster | good versus evil | monster | straight to video | based on toy | 

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Genres:

Action | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Oi yperanthropoi

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sunbow Productions, Marvel Productions, Hasbro

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

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?

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Connections

Edited from InHumanoids (1986)

User Reviews

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.