Eighties Horror Retrospective #19
Robowar (1988)
(7/10): Another Fragasso and Mattei collaboration, I also forgot to acknowledge that Rosella Drudi worked with Fragasso as writer on a pretty consistent basis as they were in a relationship.
Robowar is one part Robocop, one part Rambo, one part Predator and the rest is just pure insanity.
It's about a squadron of soldiers who are sent to a remote island with an advisor who is there as he knows about what they're up against, however he refuses to give up the information once there.
They're then hunted by what appears to be a bogey with a high powered gun and biker helmet on, who they later discover is actually a past soldier who had been taken from the battlefield after he had died and turned into a weapon.
So we have an unidentified killer hunting soldiers in the jungle, there's our predator influence;a man who had died in action and resurrected as half machine, there's robocop; and finally we get all of the war based action from on, former, man who is massacring many professionals, there's our rambo.
I have to say that this one is just insanely fun and brainless.
I however actually think that the score here was done pretty well, effects were of varying quality, the robot killer is a dude with a vest on and a biker helmet but the gore effects are pretty solid.
We get many breaks from the horror for action oriented scenes which is a nice change of pace and fits the tone of the film well.
I think it is worth a watch, even if you're not a fan of horror movies it plays out more like action/war with a bit of sci-fi thrown in than horror, it's a mish-mash of genres really and it isn't even necessarily good, it just entertaining.
Robowar (1988)
(7/10): Another Fragasso and Mattei collaboration, I also forgot to acknowledge that Rosella Drudi worked with Fragasso as writer on a pretty consistent basis as they were in a relationship.
Robowar is one part Robocop, one part Rambo, one part Predator and the rest is just pure insanity.
It's about a squadron of soldiers who are sent to a remote island with an advisor who is there as he knows about what they're up against, however he refuses to give up the information once there.
They're then hunted by what appears to be a bogey with a high powered gun and biker helmet on, who they later discover is actually a past soldier who had been taken from the battlefield after he had died and turned into a weapon.
So we have an unidentified killer hunting soldiers in the jungle, there's our predator influence;a man who had died in action and resurrected as half machine, there's robocop; and finally we get all of the war based action from on, former, man who is massacring many professionals, there's our rambo.
I have to say that this one is just insanely fun and brainless.
I however actually think that the score here was done pretty well, effects were of varying quality, the robot killer is a dude with a vest on and a biker helmet but the gore effects are pretty solid.
We get many breaks from the horror for action oriented scenes which is a nice change of pace and fits the tone of the film well.
I think it is worth a watch, even if you're not a fan of horror movies it plays out more like action/war with a bit of sci-fi thrown in than horror, it's a mish-mash of genres really and it isn't even necessarily good, it just entertaining.