In 1979 an Italian Sci-Fi movie was released
L'Umanoide or
The Humanoid as it was known in the UK and U.S was Directed by Aldo Lado under the pseudonym of George B.Lewis. I think he was trying to sound like George Lucas.
The film starred Richard Kiel 'Jaws' of 007 fame, and was full of Space Battles, Aliens, Robots etc... I remember seeing this with my brother at the local Odeon and enjoying it lots. Many years later I got to see it on VHS and it wasn't quite the movie I remembered, the FX were cheap, the acting was corny amongst a long list of other problems it had, but I became a fan of this movie all over again for completely different reasons. Bad movies can be good !
A mate has set up a site dedicated to not only
The Humanoid but to Italian and Low Budget Cult Sci-Fi movies, whose titles include
Galaxy of Terror,Ragewar,Forbidden World,Lifeforce,Laserblast,The Titan Find,Planet of the Vampires,War in Space to name but a few.
Gonz who runs the site has managed to track down many of the cast and crew of these movies and has some rare behind the scenes FX pics etc... that have been sent to him. So if you like your movies cheap and cheerful check out his site in the links at the side of the page.
Here's a re-render of a pic I did back in Feb 06 for my mate Gonz's The Humanoid website. I've just done this update for him so there's a bit of new content for the site, the old render can be seen here http://tinyurl.com/2m9eq7
This is for my mate Gonz's The Humanoid website. Gonz flew out to Sweden recently where he met Richard Kiel who played Golob in The Humanoid. Look at the size of those hands in the pic ! Gonz has a promotion on his website for an Autograph offer from Richard Kiel. Check here http://www.golobthehumanoid.com/autographoffer.html
A bit of a difference from the HMS Camden Lock made for Hyperdrive, this CG Model is based on the Claw Ship that is used to catch Richard Kiel's character Golob in the Italian Sci-Fi film The Humanoid, I only had frame grabs to work from provided by my mate Gonz who runs The Humanoid site I posted about yesterday. The films miniatures were built by Armando Valcauda and Paolo Zeccara, and I'm not quite sure what they were thinking when they designed such a strange ship. It's pretty cheap and cheerful looking in the movie and it really looks like they've used any pretty much any Airfix model part that was to hand. So this is more a representation of the ship rather than an accurate copy !
