![]() 9000 is a robot assistant, not that different from Alexa or Siri, featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. What’s worse, when Army soldiers fire upon it with everything with guns to laser beams, the robot monster absorbs their energy and only gets stronger. The title refers to a giant black monolithic robot who is dropped into the ocean by a space capsule and emerges from the deep to wreak holy hell on the planet’s inhabitants. Kronos (1957) This film inspired the giant robot featured in the Oscar-winning animation The Incredibles (2004).Īlso released as Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe, this is another horror/sci-fi film that deals with alien invaders and nuclear devastation-common themes in an 1950s American landscape whipped up by the Red Scare that was on constant high alert that a nuclear war with Russia was imminent. Robby would also go on to star in other films such as The Invisible Boy. What’s more, he has the cultivated manner of a gentleman’s gentleman.” Although the film’s iconic poster appears to show Robby in the process of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a female heroine, Robby plays no such sinister role in the movie itself. He can make dresses, brew bourbon whisky, perform feats of Herculean strength and speak 187 languages, which emerged through a neon-lighted grille. Many critics agree that the film’s star is the gentle “Robby the Robot,” whom The New York Times described as “a phenomenal mechanical man who can do more things in his small body than a roomful of business machines. In this pioneering sci-fi film-which is both the first mainstream film whose soundtrack is entirely electronic, as well as the first big-budget Hollywood science-fiction film ever-astronauts travel far into space to research why a far-flung colony is not returning messages, only to find more trouble than they were bargaining for. Forbidden Planet (1956) Robby the Robot: The friendliest entity on the Forbidden Planet. This “robot” also communicates with his overlords on the moon through a primitive TV set that emits blowing bubbles. In this notoriously low-budget (shot in four days for $16,000) and intensely schlocky (it routinely shows up on “Worst Movie Ever Made” lists) slice of early Cold War-era nuclear-war paranoia, the “Robot Monster” is named “Ro-Man,” and he has come to rid the world of “Hu-Mans.” Problem is, he doesn’t look like a proper robot-instead, he looks like an actor in a gorilla costume with a diving helmet on top of his head, because that’s exactly what he is. A review in The New York Times described Gort as “oddly unmenacing, for all his grossness and his death-ray eye.” Robot Monster (1953) Robot Monster is an early black and white Robot movie. He also explains that if the earthlings refuse his offer of peace, members of his interplanetary coalition have created an Army of robots like Gort that are capable of wiping out all of humanity. ![]() ![]() Klaatu survives his wounds and, to demonstrate his power, turns off all electricity on Earth except for absolute necessities such as airplanes and hospitals. ![]() A human-looking being named Klaatu emerges from the saucer and promises that he comes “in peace and good will.” When Army soldiers shoot him, a 7-foot-tall robot named Gort exits the saucer and vaporizes all the Army’s weapons. In one of the earliest films to feature both robot and nuclear-war themes, The Day the Earth Stood Still (also released as Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World) concerns a flying saucer that lands in Washington, DC and is immediately surrounded by the US Army. Old Robot Movies The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) A 7-foot robot stalks US Army soldiers. Here are some of the most prominent robot movies from the 1950s-when people started realizing that technology will one day render human beings obsolete-up until the modern era. It is no coincidence that things which are not human can also be the most inhumane. These are not crimes of passion or revenge instead, they are the programmed acts of an inhuman machine that is simply following orders. A second element of what makes robot movies so scary is the cold, clinical, technological way in which the robot predators kill. ![]()
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