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The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

Started by Scott, September 26, 2006, 10:02:18 PM

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Scott

THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS (1962) - This is a good low budget Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi film. In this future society man creates robots and the robots learn to produce even better robots that resemble man by replacing recently dead humans with the latest humanoid robots. The robots become so advance that two of them fall in love. The film has cheap sets and great sci-fi dialogue. You have the Order of Flesh and Blood against the robot hierarchy inside robot temple which is off limits to humans. Some really good ideas in this one. If you get a chance this film is well worth viewing. Little or no action, but some cheap sets, great dialogue, and some neat robots. You won't be dissappointed if you listen to the whole film. Movie Trailer.


trekgeezer

Hey, like the trailer says, I'll have to see it to believe it. Looks deliciously cheesy, I'll have to keep an eye out for it.



And you thought Trek isn't cool.

Ash

Reminds me of the classic Star Trek TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of??


Andrew

I watched this one night with my wife and made several of the same observations.  The writing is full of interesting ideas and it definitely is more script than the producer had budget to make.  Because of this, you get a lot of talking and plenty of time to digest that talking.  Much better than many movies of a comparable budget.

Look for the actor who played Eros is "Plan 9 from Outer Space."  You will have to listen for his voice, because you will not recognize him on sight.  I got a kick out of it when I realized it was him.
Andrew Borntreger
Badmovies.org

Scott

Andrew, I actually picked this film up thinking it was a film that I remembered from the 70's, but it's not the same film, but it turned out to be a good one anyway.

By the way the film I'm looking for is similiar to THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS only in the end the robots attack man in a final battle with a robot arm breaking off in closed doorway while people escape and robots being repaired. That's what I remember most. Have never been able to figure out what film this is. The sets are similiar to THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS. The film I'm thinkin about I saw in the mid-70's and was probably filmed in the 50's or 60's.

Yaddo 42

The trailer for this film used to turn up on Trailer Park and Reel Wild Cinema it was creepy and emotionally cold on it's own, which made me want to see the film, I still do. In pop culture lore, this was supposedly Andy Warhol's favorite film. If trure that's something of a recommendation on it's own.

Scott could the film you're thinking of be The Time Travellers from 1964? It has a battle scene between attacking mutants and defending robots as the humans prepare to escape in a rocket ship. It sounds similar to what you describe, and the film and clips from it turn up in odd places like in other films and TV shows playing on TV sets in scenes.
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Scott

Gee, I don't remember any mutants.......I better look up that title.

Scott

Did some research Yaddo and I do believe THE TIME TRAVELLERS is the film. When younger I didn't realize they were mutants. I thought they were robots. Thanks Yaddo. Would be nice to get a hold of a copy.

Found this webpage about the movie.

THE TIME TRAVELLERS

Yaddo 42

There are robots and mutants both in that film. If you look in the archive at Dr. Freex's site he has a joint review of "The Time Travellers" and "Journey to the Center of Time" which is apparently a lower budget remake directed by the writer of the first film.

Never seen it but The Time Travellers was a frequent showing when WHNT had a syndicated spooky movie with a host in makeup show. I know I caught it on AMC within the past five years, before they began to suck, still enjoyed the film, but the gratuitous Forrest Ackerman cameo was distracting. I had to surrender my fanboy credentials several years ago since I find Forry kind of annoying for various reasons.
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Flangepart

Yaddo 42 Wrote:
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> The trailer for this film used to turn up on
> Trailer Park and Reel Wild Cinema it was creepy
> and emotionally cold on it's own, which made me
> want to see the film, I still do. In pop culture
> lore, this was supposedly Andy Warhol's favorite
> film. If trure that's something of a
> recommendation on it's own.
>
> Scott could the film you're thinking of be The
> Time Travellers from 1964? It has a battle scene
> between attacking mutants and defending robots as
> the humans prepare to escape in a rocket ship. It
> sounds similar to what you describe, and the film
> and clips from it turn up in odd places like in
> other films and TV shows playing on TV sets in
> scenes.

I remember that one, particulary the ending! Nice trick to pull on the audience.
"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"

peter johnson

I LOVE The Time Travelers!!!
I saw it on the big screen the year after it first came out -- our town would show second-run films even if they were cheap and "B" -- so 1965.  I remember it as if it were last week.
It has a GREAT trick ending where time loops back on itself -- really cool, in a classic science-fiction short-story way.
But by far the most memorable thing about this film is when the time travelers are being shown around the underground paradise that the humans of the future have made for themselves, and this very pretty nymphette-type gal plays this theremin-like color-note organ for the guys, waving her hands over a series of lighted squares, and the tune she plays is almost virtually IDENTICAL to the theme from the "Star Trek" TV show, which would come out the following year (1966).
When I was doing the old HOMEMOVIES TV show on PBS, Channel 12, Denver, we had a segment in one of our last broadcasts where we ran that scene and the opening theme scene from Star Trek side-by-side.  While there were and are still some doubters, even the people who DIDN'T believe it to be a ripoff thought they sounded damn similar.
Rent this film & tell me what YOU think --
peter critic/denny skeptic
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