Okay the robot is pretty ridiculous. No one is denying that. Still, this is a pretty awesome movie with better casting, acting, and drama than many of the big classics of the sci fi, noir, or disaster film genres.
A woman wakes up after attempting suicide to city that appears to be totally empty. She bumps into another guy but after seeing dead bodies around doesn't know if he is the one who killed them, where anyone is, or what the hell is going on. The girl is really cute. Not really a bombshell type but sexy nonetheless and my eyes were pretty much glued to her strapless shoulders (and whatnot) throughout. She eventually bumps into some other people and its kind of like in a disaster movie where you get to know them a bit as they deal with the thing. They are alot less annoying than those people usually are though. Also, a psycho killer is among them!
Very cool movie despite the ridiculous robot. It must have been hard to keep a straigtht face, the scene when the robot slowly makes its way up the stairs... has been written about. I am probably the least resourceful person there is and even I came up with a half a dozen ways to stop the thing: rope, water, oil. I mean, empty city there are supplies everywhere but f**k it: this movie rocks and 75 minute running time to boot.
This VCI edition is not restored but it looks fine if not spectacular, some pops and whatnot. It comes with a very cool 20 minute doc on the producer Herman Cohen. His lifestory is quite impressive: starting as a usher/ helper kid at a movie theatre, he eventually made tons of sick movies and owned the very theatre he started in and many others. He made the first teen horror movie " I was a Teenaged Werewolf" and later did Horrors of the BLack Museum and (I think) the Flesheaters.
4.5/5
cool