Yes, I watched it. Definitely the worst movie I have seen in a long time, in a very amusing way. This movie so SO BAD. Terrible acting, terrible effects, and a plot that doesn't make any sense. And WHERE were the robots?! There were only like 4 robots in the whole movie, and they did not look or act anything like robots. The big bad guy at the end turns out to be some alien pod thing, so maybe it should have been called Alien Pod With Help From 4 Crappy Robots Holocaust.
Favourite scenes include:
- The title sequence. The narrator explains the current situation: 99% of the population killed by the robots and the rest enslaved by the robots. Toward the end of the sequence he says
"Nearly all of humanity was wiped out in the - [really awkward pause] - Robot Holocaust (synced with the title popping up, as below). Absolute genius!
- The pleasure machine. Described as a way of rewarding loyal subjects of the Dark One, this is clearly supposed to be some kind of sexual pleasuring device. But the movie confuses this point. Angleika (below) goes into this glass chamber, topless, touches an electrical ball with two other topless people (one man and one woman), then the two naked people dance all crazy, fog rolls in and strobe lights flash about, the woman in the chamber slowly turns around in stiff quarter circles, and nobody seems to be having a good time. ?!??!
Angelika Jager made the film quite memorable. She is the worst actress ever. Clearly only hired for her looks, she can barely read her lines through a very thick accent and makes the movie quite laughable. The poor girl - this was her first and only movie role.
So how does it compare to Stay Hungry?
ReplyDeleteExcellent question! It is very hard to compare movies that are bad on different levels. This movie is HILARIOUS in parts, and then quite boring in parts, and in general you almost always know what is going to happen next. Also, no character development. With Stay Hungry, it was sort of "done well", in that there was a plot line and character development, but it was bad in that the story really sucked, and that in parts it was really really weird/incomprehensible!
ReplyDeleteSo, for a weirdo like me, they are both greatly bad in different ways.
For 98% of the rest of the world, they are both movies that should never be watched :)