ChikPapa
Very disappointed :(
Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Loui Blair
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
marshalskrieg
This one is very odd. A post-WW3 radioactive world where robots are close to becoming human, and a society conflicted about this scenario. This tale involves self righteous citizen vigilantes intent on preserving the distinction between man and machine, a mad scientist, rebel robots, and even possible romances between humans and these servant androids (termed "clickers"). Sounds like a very exciting yarn, right? Well, you might be a bit disappointed- This is a head trip talkative venture- there is almost zero action. The low budget offers us only two or three rooms where all of the film takes place. This is for intellectuals, no sock em up, non stop action packed adventures here. Be prepared for in depth discussions, on screen and off, inside your own mind as you ponder the moral dilemmas contained within this nearly forgotten film. A must see for anyone who enjoys this eras science fiction.Some reviewers mistakenly say this is based on a story by Jack Williamson, its not. Also, the usual release date for this is 1962, when the evidence suggests it was made in 1960, which makes the film even more remarkable, given its themes and frank portrayal of a love between a human and a robot. It is often said that this was Andy Warhols favorite movie, but I think this is no more than an unsubstantiated rumor.The ending is worth it all, really makes one think.Special note: This was famed makeup artist Jack Pierces last effort, he did the iconic Frankenstein back in the 1930's.All in all, worth the watch, I give it 5.6 stars.
Michael O'Keefe
Directed and produced by Wesley Barry, CREATION of the HUMANOIDS is a futuristic tale where post nuclear war survivors create blue-skinned, silver eyed human-like robots to serve mankind. The human population is unaware that the fuse between man and robot, the humanoids, has actually formed a high standard work force and society. The lingering radiation has caused a decline in the human birth rate and soon the Humanoids, in the process of learning feelings, emotions and memory, will out number flesh and blood humans. A fanatical organization tries to prevent the robots from becoming too human. Players include: Don Megowan, Erica Elliot, Don Doolittle, George Milan, Frances McCann and David Cross.
mikelcat
This is an above average sci-fi film without the usual special effects where the concept is the attraction , where you are asked to think about the possibilities .In this future man has all but destroy's himself , not to far fetched at all and humanoid robots are performing all the tasks man used to , even loving women .This of course makes the men that are left very afraid and ''The Order of Flesh and Blood ''is the agency that represents the fear of what man has done to himself .The humanoids are all about the good of man but man's blind fears blur this until the inevitable finally happens .This film is quite good and has a lot to say , give it a try and forget about cg and effects .Just let the film take its effect on you .Approach with an open mind !
junk-monkey
What a peculiar, flawed little gem! Judged by any criterion this film shouldn't work at all. The script is insanely wordy and there is hardly action to speak of, for 75 minutes people just stand in a row across the screen and woodenly deliver screeds of expositional dialogue towards each other, often without any cuts or camera movements - sometimes, when there are cuts, the off screen dialogue is delivered by the other actor/s so straight and flat (almost as if they were just prompting) that it appears the editors either had no idea about sound editing or the director had given them nothing to edit together. The sets are minimal and flat, the costuming cheap, the score electronic 'Space Age' ooooeeeness seemingly unrelated to anything happening on screen.So far, so what? Sounds like every other cruddy 1950s / 60s lo no budget SF movie - it even starts with a montage of stock footage nuclear explosions. But what actually arrives on screen is an odd mix of genuinely novel SF ideas (I particularly liked the Human / Robot 'marriage' idea that sees one of the characters transferring aspects of her personality to a robot and then falling in love with the refection of herself) and a stream of philosophical ponderings and anti-prejudice messages that must have been mind-blowing to a teenage drive in audience of the time (if they had managed to stay awake long enough to see them). The plot has our central anti-hero character (an anti-hero in a cheap 60s SF movie in itself is a major oddity) is one of the leaders of a quasi-militaristic, group with growing influence over the police and government, dedicated to the preservation of MAN in a world where the already tiny population of a post holocaust Earth is declining due to radiation induced mutations and sterility. The group sees the ever more sophisticated Robots as a threat and agitates against them (think Brownshirts and Jews). Our 'hero' discovers a robot disguised as a human being and suspects a plot to replace real humans with replicas, then is told his sister is living openly with a robot she is in love with. He goes to visit her to put a stop to that sort of disgusting behaviour and meets a friend of hers. There is an immediate bond and the two fall in love - we discover (before they do) that both he and the girl are robot replacements implanted with false memories (this film was made in 1962, six years before Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published), and the final shots hold out hope that the human race will allow themselves to be resurrected, one by one, in near indestructible robot form and that robots will soon have the ability to reproduce much in the same was as humans do now... cue end title...It's all pretty woodenly done and some of the writing is dreadfully dull but there are more SF ideas thrown out, and assumptions made, in this movie than in any dozen other more mainstream SF movies of the period. The film is unsurprisingly (but amazingly) adapted from a novel by Jack Williamson (at the time - as now - it was rare for Hollywood SF movies to be based on existing works). The movies main problem is that it looks just like it. A novel filmed.Apparently this was one of Andy Wahol's favourite films. It'll stand another watching.