The film was written and directed by one of the undisputed masters of fantasy, Karel Zeman. Any information on this film is hard to come by. I would love to see it again, if only to relive a part of my childhood. It wasn't until the very end of the film that I realized that I had actually seen it when I was very young. The frightening image of a man peeling off his skin exposing his skeleton suddenly snapped something on in my head.
People often scoff at the idea of the Italian Fantastic cinema, especially science fiction.
Well filmed, with a great score, and starring the enigmatic Michel Lemoine as the alien named Bronco and the beautiful Maria Pia Luzi as his object of unearthly affections, Ferrara's excursion into subtle, low-budget SF should be seen by all. A race of formless, mutant super beings from another world kill a young Earth scientist and uses this body as the mold to manufacture a dozen exact robot duplicates. Sending them to strategic locations around the globe, the androids begins to systematically destroy the world's space programs by blowing up rocketships and assassinating important scientific figures. One robot in particular is kept under observation by the Italian secret service until the means of destroying the creatures can be found. In the meantime the android Bronco is befriended by a female artist who tries her damndest to get him into the sack.