| Robowar | |
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| Directed by | Bruno Mattei |
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| Produced by | Franco Gaudenzi[1] |
| Starring | Reb Brown Catherine Hickland |
| Cinematography | Richard Grassetti[2] |
| Edited by | Daniele Alabiso[1] |
| Music by | Al Festa[2] |
Production company | Flora Film[1] |
| Distributed by | Indipendenti Regionali[3] |
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| Country | Italy[1] |
Robowar (Italian: Robowar - Robot da guerra) is a 1989 Italian science fiction action film[4] directed by Bruno Mattei. The film features a group of military commandos going through a jungle and being stalked by a robot called Omega-1.
The film was shot in the Philippines and was one of the many Italian films following Apocalypse Now (1979) made with a Vietnam War-theme. Mattei added science fiction elements to Robowar after seeing the American film Predator and decided to make a similar film.
The film was released in Italy in 1990 and on early home video releases in Asia and Europe. Retrospective reviews of the film have derided it as a rip-off of Predator.
- ^ a b c d e British Film Institute [I].
- ^ a b Willis 1997, p. 425.
- ^ Archivio del cinema Italiano.
- ^ Giorgi, Palmieri & Daz 1992, p. 9.