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Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965)
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Movie Review by Lona
February 19th, 2007
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Sins Of The Fleshapoids is an epic tale of love, sin and life. The Fleshapoids are robots who have skin that resembles human flesh, they are slaves to their masters and grow sick of living meaningless lives. From here the Fleshapoids go crazy and start to rise above their masters.
Sins Of The Fleshapoids runs for about 45 minutes and is a sci-fi/comedy with pseudo beefcake actors and elements of Greek/Roman costumes and set design. The film is narrated and when the robots speak, comic book bubbles appear. Sins Of The Fleshapoids is a gem of a film, and one that you will either hate or love. To most, it is the only film that could ever be worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space. The first thing you should know is that Mike Kuchar was learning how to make films whilst making this movie. Hands down some of the most unique methods of special effects are used in this film.
Sure there are mistakes and the speech bubbles dominate the screen and come out of the wrong mouth; if you put that all aside you have a film with (for the time and budget) amazingly eye catching sets, an epic soundtrack, brilliant use of lighting and color, close-ups and shadows. This film has influenced many films such as Barbarella, possibly Rosemary's Baby and also director John Waters. It remains one of the most influential films of the 60's and is held in high regard amongst films like Scorpio Rising, Chelsea Girls and Jack Smiths Flaming Creatures.
If you like "camp" films or the works of Doris Wishman, Ed Wood or Something Weird Video releases in general, you will highly enjoy Sins Of The Fleshapoids, unless continuity is a huge obstacle for you.
Also included on the DVD are two more featurettes The Secret Of Wendel Samson and The Craven Sluck.Check out the commentary with Mike Kuchar, it is really interesting, he talks about his methods of making films and what he did to create some really effective special effects.
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