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I remember this film from my childhood,
Played every afternoon for a week in the summer on "Million Dollar Movie", Channel 9, from New York.
Couldn't remember the name but now, after 30 years, the blank has been filled in.
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Just got it in a two pack from Dark sky film. Havn't seen it yet.looks good
shareI recently bought the excellent Dark Sky Films DVD of this movie. It's featured on a funky doublebill with the silly, but enjoyable Italian sci-fi pic "War Between the Planets." I thought "The Creation of the Humanoids" was a smart and interesting, if rather dull and static low-budget sci-fi oddity. Granted, it's far from perfect, but I nonetheless enjoyed the intelligent and provocative way the intriguingly quirky story was told in the film. It's well worth checking out if you're a fan of unusual and imaginative science fiction cinema.
"Warren Oates died for our sins"
Wtched it and never expected the ending there should have been a sequel.
shareThe one scene that has always impressed me was where Cragis breaks down when he learns he has a replacement robot body, But the Dr then asks him, "If a man loses an arm, is his soul diminished by that loss?"
That thought has stuck with me since I was a kid. Profound theology presented in a B-Movie scifi film, who would expect it?
Believe it or not I saw this in a third-or-fourth run neighborhood movie house in Buffalo when I was a kid in the very early 70's and it is one of those enduring childhood memories which stays with you your entire life -even if there is no logical or rational reason for it.
I am SO glad to have this nicely-preserved DVD version to refresh my memory!
The previous posters have noted how talky the film is. I was struck by how unusually intelligent and literate the script was; particularly for a low-budget sci-fi offering. The guy who came up with the story, or the script writer, definitely had some talent and I would hope he was able to develop other ideas to better ends.
He must have wept (along with the director for the reasons cited by the first commentor) at having such a great story but limited means. Very Ed Wood, if you think about it...and doubly ironic that Dudley (Eros) Manlove of Plan Nine fame has a supporting role here.
I kept being reminded of films like Blade Runner, Future Cop (VERY obscure sci-fi TV series with...Ernest Borgnine!) and I Robot with the idea of robots wanting to become human, the racist attitudes and the trouble telling one from the other.
It would be nice to see this script dusted off and re-made (NOT...repeat, NOT...re-imagined, as the current trend goes) properly, as it deserved.
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
This movie plays on the Monsters HD channel. If you have Dish Network satellite service it is channel 9481. It is on right now. That is what prompted me to look it up on here.
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I've had this movie on my mind for a long time and could not think of the name. Today they are showing The Werewolf with Don Megowan and that name rang a bell in my mind. Looked Don up and sure enough, there was Cragis ! The only name I remembered from before was Pax. I loved this movie when I first saw it and thought it was really good for its time. Hope they show it on TCM. That Don Megowan was a very handsome man. Reminded me of the actor Rod Cameron.
shareI also decided to look up COTH after seeing Don Megowan in THE WEREWOLF recently. I just put a post on that film's site in response to someone who thought he might be Patrick Warburton's father! (He isn't.)
But I always remembered CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS -- like the first poster, I saw it as a kid on NYC's channel 9 and never forgot it. I too always found it rather intelligent and thought-provoking, much more sophisticated (in what it had to say about mankind, men, and society) than most such films, with a sly humor. And I can't be the only one who saw the parallels between the film's plot and the civil rights movement just then exploding across the nation. (I thought the term "clickers" to be particularly ingenious, sounding as it does like the scurrilous "n-word" -- a most effective way of driving home just how bigoted so many men are.)
And yet -- virtually completely neglected -- or worse, put down -- by many critics. But they'd never remake it today because the dialogue-heavy nature of the plot couldn't possibly co-exist with the requirement that there be an explosion every nine seconds to keep the audience happy. So we should be thankful the film is as it is. Admittedly, the direction is really too static, but that aside it's handled imaginatively, with some very good sets and, of course, make-up -- all especially notable on such a low-budgeter.
Oh, don't expect this to show up on TCM, although you never know. But definitely buy the DVD -- the print is excellent, the film complete and letterboxed.
And as soon as I saw the head clicker I said to myself "That's the nutty guy from Plan 9 from Outer space!!!
And he said humans were STUPID, STUPID STUPID in that film.
It's amazing what stays in one's brains after 50 years. And yeah, I saw it in 1962
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did anyone buy the double feature DVD?
how is the picture/sound quality?
i just bough the Humanoids movie (single DVD) from ebay
but the quality isnt too great.
great movie tho! 8-]
did anyone record it from the HD channel?
The double-feature DVD is excellent. Personally I don't care about the co-feature, WAR OF THE PLANETS, though it looks fine. But the HUMANOIDS print is pristine, as noted elsewhere on this thread. Excellent picture quality, sound, etc., complete and widescreen. This is the one you should get.
shareSaw it when I was a kid in a drive-in and could remember nothing about it cuz it was essentially a static play on film. As a youngster was not impressed at all. Just saw it again recently and can understand Why Warhola (his real name) would have liked it. Some of the dialog is hilariously bad, but I'll let that slide. I noticed Dudley Manlove was in it; you should know him from "Plan 9 from Outer Space" in which he intoned that the planet he was from found we humans had "Ancient, juvenile minds!" Who could forget such greatness? I've also wondered how much influence this had on Cameron's Terminators. Probably a lot, really. And the Temple where the Clickers go could be nothing other than the First Church of Scientology! Today I think this pic is a small curiosity though not without interest and, at best, a cultural artifact. But bless Don Megowan, star of the immortal "Guns of the Blackwitch" -- a childhood fave, sort of a half-thinking man's Steve Reeves.
Sacred cows make delicious hamburgers.
I just saw it
and liked it
5/10When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I also watched this movie back in the 60's on Channel 9's Million Dollar Movie but the Southern California variety.
There was a TV host on an earlier movie presentation (not The Million Dollar run), the Voice of KHJ Channel 9, Wayne Thomas, who submitted himself to the make-up artist that did the work on The Creation of the Humanoids while a movie (I don't remember what it might have been) was being reeled off. Between the movie and the commercials the station would go live to the studio and show the progress being made. At the end, Thomas stepped onto the screen, at first out of focus, bee-smoke a-roiling, silver eyes beaming and in full costume. He looked a bit like the character in The Outer Limits episode "The Sixth Finger" but spot on.
Later, in programs that followed, Thomas would wear an bandage over one of eyes because the silvered glass contact lens was applied a bit too hastily (live TV!) and it had cut into his eye. He wore the patch for a couple of weeks.
The movie was a bit slow moving for my 10 year old sensibilities, but it had that neat-o atomic blast going and it was pretty cool and I'd rather watch it than The Edge of Night.
Robotics has advanced to the point that some can now smile or scowl at you depending on what is said to them(circa 2000). Scary stuff? Are they the ultimate conquest of death? Can a person's memories be transferred to a robot that can function for centuries, and would that be considered a living entity?
shareI really enjoyed this movie after just watching it. Ending is something that everyone can translate according they're own belief. I saw it as disproving the soul.
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I always wanted to see it since I bought the book Fanastic Films .
Thanks to DVDs I own some of those films in the book .
I liked it .
I also bought the DVD from USA. I liked the film. It is more like a filmed play with some overacting particularly from Frances McCann.
shareIt's been on my mind for years, but not willing to buy the DVD! If truly desperate to see it, it's on You Tube! Being "in repore" with a humanoid was appealing to me! It was a step above Melanie G.'s "Cherry 2000!" ;-)
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