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Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler, the evil Graal uses a chemical capable of turning the pilot Golob into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength.Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler, the evil Graal uses a chemical capable of turning the pilot Golob into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength.Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler, the evil Graal uses a chemical capable of turning the pilot Golob into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Corinne Cléry
- Barbara Gibson
- (as Corinne Clery)
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
- Technician
- (uncredited)
Larry Dolgin
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Ulla Johannsen
- Girl who is drained of blood
- (uncredited)
Hal Yamanouchi
- Humanoid Soldier
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Aldo Lado
- Enzo G. Castellari(opening sequence) (uncredited)
- Writers
- Adriano Bolzoni
- Aldo Lado
- Garry Rusoff(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaStar Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)-like story elements included: The film is directed by director with alias George Lewis; storm-troopers dressed in black Darth Vader like garb; robodog Kip is a cute canine mini R2D2-like robot; opening credits in flattened Star Wars like lettering; the villain wears a space outfit which resembles Darth Vader's costume; scenes set on a desert planet; a huge spaceship flies overhead; there is a large triangular shaped spaceship; a Millennium Falconesque spaceship has a gun pod at the rear; other various similar sets, props, costumes, vehicles, and background design elements.
- Alternate versionsTo receive an 'A' (PG) certificate UK cinema and video versions were cut by 25 secs to remove shots of topless nudity during a scene where a woman's blood is drained through a machine.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Worst Movies of All Time: Kampf um die 5. Galaxis (2021)
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Candidate for the greatest cinematic failure of all time?
I am not sure how they could eve manage to make a STAR WARS cash-in even worse than STAR CRASH... but they did! Aside from the goofy special effects and silly dialog, there's still plenty of other lameness in this flimsy and tired Italian/Israeli STAR WARS ripoff to keep even the most hardened viewer scratching their head with astonishment (when not passed out from sheer tedium).
The "villain" played by Ivan Rassimov has to be one of the biggest pansies I've seen as a cut-rate Darth Vader complete with cut-rate costume. His grand quotes comes on with such banalities as "keep them away from the missile" and "so you have come to battle me at last, princely hero!". He also really cracks the whip around his cronies with the likes of "you failed to kill the girl so you are stripped of your command for 100 days!". Wouldn't most villains kill their own men for disobeying them? No wonder the ragtag group of Leonard Mann, Corrine Clery, Richard Kiel, an Asian boy and a robotic dog destroy his entire army so easily... and his death has to be the lamest ever filmed... "ack, my blue screen is dying!"
Despite its lack of any script or enthusiasm, THE HUMANOID actually had enough budget to afford a dynamite cast, from Arthur Kennedy to Barbara Bach and Massimo Serato. Even better is the crew, featuring some heavy hitters such as veteran director Enzo G. Castellari to handle the action scenes, gore guru Giannetto De Rossi on makeup, special effects wiz Antonio Margheriti on miniatures, and maestro Ennio Morricone on the score. The only problem here really is that all these great people totally phoned it in. This film not only looks cheap, but is a real snoozer, owing largely to Morricone's shockingly awful "sleepy spacey music" which never stops! In what must have been some effort in experimentation, the music has no tune or melody to it; just random sounds as you'd hear on a late-night PBS "Space Tour" in the 1970's.
The only explanation for this film failing so hard to thrill at all has to do with all involved actually being aware at some level how cynical of a cash-grab the whole thing was. Really who hadn't seen STAR WARS at this point, and who here really thought they were making a better (if not even semi-competent) film? Evidently no one.
What a turkey.
The "villain" played by Ivan Rassimov has to be one of the biggest pansies I've seen as a cut-rate Darth Vader complete with cut-rate costume. His grand quotes comes on with such banalities as "keep them away from the missile" and "so you have come to battle me at last, princely hero!". He also really cracks the whip around his cronies with the likes of "you failed to kill the girl so you are stripped of your command for 100 days!". Wouldn't most villains kill their own men for disobeying them? No wonder the ragtag group of Leonard Mann, Corrine Clery, Richard Kiel, an Asian boy and a robotic dog destroy his entire army so easily... and his death has to be the lamest ever filmed... "ack, my blue screen is dying!"
Despite its lack of any script or enthusiasm, THE HUMANOID actually had enough budget to afford a dynamite cast, from Arthur Kennedy to Barbara Bach and Massimo Serato. Even better is the crew, featuring some heavy hitters such as veteran director Enzo G. Castellari to handle the action scenes, gore guru Giannetto De Rossi on makeup, special effects wiz Antonio Margheriti on miniatures, and maestro Ennio Morricone on the score. The only problem here really is that all these great people totally phoned it in. This film not only looks cheap, but is a real snoozer, owing largely to Morricone's shockingly awful "sleepy spacey music" which never stops! In what must have been some effort in experimentation, the music has no tune or melody to it; just random sounds as you'd hear on a late-night PBS "Space Tour" in the 1970's.
The only explanation for this film failing so hard to thrill at all has to do with all involved actually being aware at some level how cynical of a cash-grab the whole thing was. Really who hadn't seen STAR WARS at this point, and who here really thought they were making a better (if not even semi-competent) film? Evidently no one.
What a turkey.
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- May 20, 2000
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- Kampf um die 5. Galaxis
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- Budget
- $7,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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