Original
Italian Title: I PIANETI CONTRO DI NOI [The Planets Against Us] also known as PLANETS AROUND US and MAN WITH YELLOW EYES and HANDS OF A KILLER
director: Romano
Ferrara
starring Michel Lemoine · Maria Pia Luzi · Jany Clair
· Marco Gulielmi · Piero Palermini
Note: This film is in [Black and White] Sepia
Tone
An
alien race sends cyborgs to the Earth to destroy technology and pave
the way for an invasion. These duplicates are designed to resemble humans
so they don't call attention to themselves [in fact, they are copied
from the likeness of a man they killed during an airplane attack over
the Sahara]. The story follows one cyborg in particular - inexplicably
named Bronco - who ends up in Rome and mingles with a sexually permissive
Bohemian crowd. The females are attracted to his mysterious and detached
personality (obviously accentuated because he's not really human). Perhaps
hidden inside this adult SciFi narrative is social commentary from writer/director
Romano Ferrara but those ideas never become the main focus of the film.
Instead, the plot continues on its terrestrial science fiction path
as the cyborg attempt to retrieve and steal a 'paralyzing gas' from
scientist Giorgio Borri.
Michel
Lemoine (sometimes known by the Michel Leblanc alias) was a French
actor/director best remembered for the role of a sexual sadist in his
EVIL
WEEKENDS OF COUNT ZAROFF as well as his perverse Francis Baumel
character in EROTIC
INFERNO. Mr Lemoine died July 2013 at age 90.
His
costar here is beautiful Maria Pia Luzi, better known by her alias Jane
Avril. After this project, she met and married insane director Alberto
Cavallone. She spent a career starring her husband's borderline crazy
productions from AFRIKA
to ZELDA
before retiring in 1977. During that time she also made a few non-Cavallone
films, best known for Rino di Silvestro's WOMEN
IN CELLBLOCK 7.
This
was the debut film for director Romano Ferrara. He would make only a
few other movies. He is best known for his final project, the jungle
girl opus GUNGALA
VIRGIN OF THE JUNGLE after which Mr Ferrara retired from the
industry.
An
Italian film in English language (with some English subtitles); black
and white Sepia Tone; fullscreen format, uncut (88 min.), DVD encoded
for ALL REGION NTSC,
playable on
any American machine. Extras include trailers.
Violence/SemiNudity/Sexual
Themes
For Adult Audiences
