Robowar

Robowar (1988)

Robowar - Robot da guerra

A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounters a robotic killing machine.

Date of release
1988-01-01
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (50)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Action, Science Fiction, War
Director
Bruno Mattei

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Philippines

Robowar is a 1989 Italian science fiction action film 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.

Production

Since the 1960s, the Philippines had been a popular shooting location of independent films. Producers such as Roger Corman would film there to take advantage of low cost of labor and access to military resources courtesy of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Following the release of Apocalypse Now (1979), the Philippines became a stand-in filming location to represent Vietnam. In Italy, director Antonio Margheriti banked on the popularity of Apocalypse Now with his film The Last Hunter (1980), the first Vietnam War-inspired film made in Italy. This led to the location to stand-in for various tropical locations such as Cambodia, Brazil and the Caribbean in Italian film productions.

Director Bruno Mattei shot several films between 1987 and 1988 on the Philippine island of Luzon such as Strike Commando (1987) and several others for Flora Film. The more science fiction-flavored film Robowar came together as the director had seen Predator (1987) and wanted to make a similar film. Among the cast was Reb Brown who was previously in Strike Commando. Actor John P.

Robowar was shot for six weeks. Fragasso who was filming After Death (1989) filled in for Mattei to shoot a sequence without any context for where or how it was set up in the film.

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