Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: The Humanoid
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema explores one of the many films that sought to cash in on the popularity of George Lucas’ 1977 classic. Behold, 1979’s “The Humanoid,” an Italian space opera starring Richard Kiel, Barbara Bach and a whole lot of stuff that looks like Star Wars. (originally published 5/7/2021)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:11.6 | This is Rob Lamb, and, hey, we have a theme week here at Stuff to Bow Your Mind. |
| 0:16.6 | It's going to be Star Wars Week. |
| 0:18.5 | It is Star Wars Week. |
| 0:20.6 | And so we are going to re-air an much older episode. |
| 0:24.8 | This one originally published 5-7, 2021. |
| 0:28.0 | It is rather famous as being a Star Wars rip-off. |
| 0:32.3 | Again, very much a knockoff, or I don't know, however you want to phrase it, |
| 0:36.7 | a knockoff at least, of the 1977 classic. |
| 0:40.2 | This is 1979's The Humanoid, an Italian space opera that is itself a whole lot of fun. |
| 0:47.7 | So let's fire it up and see what it has to offer. |
| 0:53.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:03.4 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. |
| 1:06.1 | This is Rob Lamb. |
| 1:07.5 | And this is Joe McCormick, and it's Star Wars Clone Week here on Weird House Cinema. We just |
| 1:12.8 | did a week of regular episodes concerning Star Wars on Tuesday and Thursday. And so we figured we |
| 1:18.7 | would look into yet another rip-off of the George Lucas Classic Star Wars. This will actually |
| 1:25.2 | not even be the first Star Wars clone we're doing on Weird House |
| 1:29.0 | Cinema because a few months back, we watched Message from Space, which I absolutely |
| 1:34.1 | adored. It was, you know, like many movies of the late 70s, a blatant rip-off of Star Wars, |
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