The Super Inframan (1975)
The surface of the Earth is under attack, thousands of people are killed in this unprovoked attacked. The cause, Princess Dragonmon and her army of monsters have decided to invade. Princess Dragonmon is an alien whose race has been hiding under us for centuries waiting to attack at the time is right. A doctor has been preparing for something like this and turns his assistant Rayma into the cyborg hero known as Inframan. Now only Inframan stands between the Earth and Princess Dragonmon but when a close friend is captured and brainwashed, can she be stopped with this inside man feeding her info?
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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
After stumbling across the insane poster, I just knew I had to see this movie. Found it on Google Play, got it and made it through all of it -- laughing my butt off and crying. It's not a comedy, but oh mah gawd, you can tell this is where some of our more recent pop culture hits got their inspiration.Imagine a fever dream with knockoff PowerRanger baddies and bad Korean anime. That sums it up fairly well. EXTREMELY entertaining and hammy acting... the 'Dragon Mom' villainess and her co-horts will give you nightmares of the pizza variety. Makes you wish they'd make movies as fun and crazy as this again!
"Inframan" is not a "good" movie by any standard, but the energy level is so high and the cheese factor is so outrageous that if you have any patience for Shaw Brothers style old school Chinese movies, you'll probably like it anyway.It's...hard to describe what the deal is with "Inframan". What it most reminds me of are my grade school playground days, when my friends and I ran around pretending to be jet robots and superheroes and dinosaurs and whatever else came to mind on an instant's notice. Tons of wild creativity and improvisation, absolutely no focus or coherence or logical linking of one thing to another. Watching "Inframan" takes me back to those days - he pulls new powers and abilities out of thin air, seemingly at random. The Hong Kong/"Engrish" dubbing is the master touch - whatever the actors were saying in their native languages, their dialog loses any subtlety or nuance by the time the English dubbing crew got done with it, and everyone seems to be yelling the first thing that comes to mind at the top of their lungs. Great fun. Search this one out and watch it once if you have any affection for the old "Kung Fu Theater" genre or the Power Rangers or Voltron or any of that kind of entertainment. You'll realize you have watched something primal.
super inframan the cult movie. of course things like this always find their own, but there was not much for me to enjoy in this one. i was watching old shawscope trash with few redeeming qualities. it would take a while to list everything that was lousy about it, all the clumsy errors, silly costumes, settings, lack of plot...and so on. i didn't find it all very humorous either. the monsters were indeed humorous, and the robots near the end were actually quite imaginative, but the dull scenes between the fights, the awful noise throughout the movie and the utter lack of any deeper meaning put me off. call me a tired dry grown-up, but i might have liked this when i was eight.
This is a hoot and a half; a Shaw Brothers' gem. Add in a manga based story, the Shaw Bros. studio lot, sci-fi, and lots of amazing, kampy fighting surpassing even the staged corny fighting by the Bat in blue tights Adam West, and that's Super Inframan in a nutshell. According to production notes, Danny Lee did don the Inframan suit on and I loved the transformation sequences with really 70ish sound effects! There's 70s written throughout this one. I never knew a Demon Princess could dress and look so funky psychedelic! I thought she stopped by a Viking convention. Plus, best use of motorcycle helmets goes to the numerous black-clad skull minions who take turns getting an Inframan-ish beating and lots of well-timed body flips. This film is a very good homage to Japan's Kaiju. Please ignore the fact that the monsters are human-sized rather than several stories tall. The Super Inframan and the Mighty Peking Man should be shown back-to-back at Subway Cinema 2004 at the Film Forum in NYC!