There are many Star Wars rip offs from the late 70s and early 80s but none are as blatant as The Humanoid
well except Turkish Star Wars which literally steals scenes from Star Wars.
Everything from the costumes, spaceship design, characters, special effects and sets are all reminiscent of Star Wars in one way or another.
The story follows Golob (Richard Kiel) who turns into an indestructible humanoid until his mind control chip is broken and is used for good by the protagonists.
The music is composed by Ennio Morricone and I couldn't believe this was from the same guy as The Good, The Bad and They Ugly. The theme sounds like Ode to Joy if it was played on a Casio keyboard.
The movie stars three actors from the James Bond franchise, Barbara Bach, Corinne Clery and Richard Kiel as The Humanoid. My guess is the Italian filmmakers saw The Spy Who Loved Me and Star Wars back to back and thought "you know what? Let's make a space movie with droids and guys with big helmets but with the big guy from that new James Bond movie".
Despite this I quite enjoyed the movie. It has a 70s-sci-fi feel and its allusion to Star Wars is quite blatant but in that respect, I think they knew what they were making.
Everything from the costumes, spaceship design, characters, special effects and sets are all reminiscent of Star Wars in one way or another.
The story follows Golob (Richard Kiel) who turns into an indestructible humanoid until his mind control chip is broken and is used for good by the protagonists.
The music is composed by Ennio Morricone and I couldn't believe this was from the same guy as The Good, The Bad and They Ugly. The theme sounds like Ode to Joy if it was played on a Casio keyboard.
The movie stars three actors from the James Bond franchise, Barbara Bach, Corinne Clery and Richard Kiel as The Humanoid. My guess is the Italian filmmakers saw The Spy Who Loved Me and Star Wars back to back and thought "you know what? Let's make a space movie with droids and guys with big helmets but with the big guy from that new James Bond movie".
Despite this I quite enjoyed the movie. It has a 70s-sci-fi feel and its allusion to Star Wars is quite blatant but in that respect, I think they knew what they were making.