Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird How Cinema, this is Rob Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick, and today we're going to be taking a look at the 1986 film Hands

of Steel, which is an Italian Terminator clone that asks the question not just can

a cyborg fall in love, but can a cyborg appreciate the finer points of arm wrestling?

That's right.

This one also known as Vendetta da Lufuturo, I guess Vendetta of the future.

And then I've also seen it credited with another title, the Italian for Hands of Stone.

Maybe that was a working title, I'm not sure.

Many did Pietra.

Yeah.

Yeah, why would it be Hands of Stone?

This cyborg definitely does not have Stone in him, he has metal in him, we see it up close.

Now there was a funny thing about this, you might ask, okay, is this movie an Italian

ripoff of Terminator?

And the answer is yes.

But it's more than that, it's also, as we've said, it's about love and it's about arm

wrestling.

But I would say there's a strange quality this movie has, which is that it rips off

movies that post date it.

So when I was watching I was thinking it's not just a ripoff of Terminator, it's also,

in a way, a ripoff of Robocop, the Robocop didn't come out until at least a year after

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