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The Invisible Boy (1957)
Director: Herman Hoffman
Cast: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster,Robby the Robot
Genre: Sci Fi Adventure
Never take a 1950's sci fi movie poster at face value!...None of that stuff actually happened! Though it looks cool! The robot was the boys friend, well for the most part anyway...and there was no missiles or army attacks. But there's a lot of neat stuff happening in this obscure 50s sci fi film.
This is one weird film! First off MGM wanted to reuse Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, so they came up with a kids story...only someone had a very weird sense of humor, because they made a rather dark movie out of the story. I'm sure it scared the heck out of the kids!
Foreshadowing both Colossus: The Forbin Project and Terminator, The Invisible Boy has an evil super computer that attains self awareness and uses it's console lights to hypnotize humans, then it implants micro chips into their brains and controls them. The super computer seeks to have itself launched into space where it can control the planet. Most disturbing is the super computers threat to torture and kill the boy unless it's plans for world conquest is meet by his frightened parents, who have to choose between enslaving the world to an artificial intelligence or letting their son die a grisly death.
Pretty serious stuff for kids and yet most of the film seems to have been made for a youth market.
I'm giving this for strangeness.
Director: Herman Hoffman
Cast: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster,Robby the Robot
Genre: Sci Fi Adventure
Never take a 1950's sci fi movie poster at face value!...None of that stuff actually happened! Though it looks cool! The robot was the boys friend, well for the most part anyway...and there was no missiles or army attacks. But there's a lot of neat stuff happening in this obscure 50s sci fi film.
Timmie (Richard Eyer) a naughty boy genius, first assembles Robby the Robot which is left over from his scientist dad's project. Latter Timmie takes a formula that makes him invisible. That's the fun part of the film, but latter the film grows darker .
This is one weird film! First off MGM wanted to reuse Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, so they came up with a kids story...only someone had a very weird sense of humor, because they made a rather dark movie out of the story. I'm sure it scared the heck out of the kids!
Foreshadowing both Colossus: The Forbin Project and Terminator, The Invisible Boy has an evil super computer that attains self awareness and uses it's console lights to hypnotize humans, then it implants micro chips into their brains and controls them. The super computer seeks to have itself launched into space where it can control the planet. Most disturbing is the super computers threat to torture and kill the boy unless it's plans for world conquest is meet by his frightened parents, who have to choose between enslaving the world to an artificial intelligence or letting their son die a grisly death.
Pretty serious stuff for kids and yet most of the film seems to have been made for a youth market.
I'm giving this for strangeness.