9 Forgotten Killer Robots And Mecha B-Films - Cheesy But Super-Fun!

[@SuperBurgerLord]

This takes me back to the days of walking up and down the aisles of Blockbuster and West Coast Video, readling the descriptions on VHS tapes.

[@alecaquino4306]

Good memories.

[@darkone666]

Good times

[@stevemorley5099]

Good old days blockbuster candy smell can't beat it

[@Shad0wBoxxer]

God yes.

[@kennethjanczak4900]

worked in a blockbuster for 6 years during my education... it was a good time

[@diandrarizvi]

Watched Robot Jox on TV in the 90s... and it was GLORIOUS!!!

[@irina1296]

Saved to Favourites! Not a big fan of Universal Soldier 2 but I re-watch other 8 mentions all the time. Thanks for this sweet nostalgia video, guys! Other favourites: Saturn 3 (1980), Android (1982), D.A.R.Y.L. (1985), Eliminators (1986), Chopping Mall (1986), Hands of Steel (1986), Cherry 2000 (1987), Eve of Destruction (1991), Prototype (1992), Shadowchaser (1992), Nemesis (1992), Cyborg Cop (1993), Running Delilah (1993), Oblivion (1994), Automatic (1995), Digital Man (1995), Heatseeker (1995), Omega Doom (1996), Impostor (2001), Cyborg Soldier (2008), Iron Invader (2011), The Machine (2013), Automata (2014), Uncanny (2015), Kill Command (2016), Morgan (2016).

[@orinanime]

Great suggestions. Also, I'm pretty sure that Universal Soldier The Return is actually the 4th movie in the franchise.

[@SonyaMei2]

@@orinanime in many countries Universal Soldier The Return was introduced as Universal Soldier 2. Even its creators said that it was a direct sequel to the original and both TV films are not canon. I prefer TV films to awful The Return but still

[@lazyeyesurprise]

I remember Eve Of Destruction, it was pretty good! Basically a female Terminator. Nemesis had good action choreography for the time.

[@maxcooper6554]

Have you checked out Robot Riot?

[@CorbCorbin]

No Deadly Friend?!? BeeBee!!

[@robertsimpson2133]

Death Machine was epic when I first watched it at 10. Still holds up today strangely.

[@wannawatch5864]

I think this may have been the first film I saw Brad Dourif in.

[@maccurtis730]

1:12 Death Machine 1994 4:00 Robot Jox 1989 6:25 Space Truckers 1996 8:11 Solo 1996 9:58 Class of 1999 12:39 Universal Soldier The Return 14:58 Gunhed 17:41 Robot Wars 19:36 Crash and Burn

[@LargeGSX1400]

Jesus, Gunhed... I watched that 25 years or so ago, completely forgot about it. One of those rental choices made because the video case looked awesome.

[@LysThePenguin]

Yes it really does. I still have my GUNHED VHS. Such an amazing Movie. :-)

[@thePavuk]

I was searching for the name of this movie for almost 25 years.

[@jorgehenrique2863]

I know about gunhead because frontline Assembly! Is the video clip!

[@erikramaekers63]

Space Truckers is Godon's most underrated movie.

[@redfoe77]

It's a fun movie that deserves a sequel

[@billyspi.5651]

Yea,tottally!!And the killer robot what do tham creepy and scaryyy!!

[@360entertainment2]

My brother and I used to watch it anytime it came on HBO. We always got a kick out of it

[@develynseether4426]

I saw this so many years ago and totally forgot it until now, what an epic film!

[@loumorningstar7709]

Mmmm square pigs for a square meal!

[@zemuzzy]

This should be called, "9 Forgotten Killer Robots And Mecha B-Films That Should Be Remade By Neill Blomkamp"

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

I'm surprised Chopping Mall (1986) wasn't included in this list.

[@ryanbrown938]

That was a good one

[@xeroabyss9597]

Everytime I hear ''Piece By Piece'', by Slayer, I think of that movie. It's based on the movie 🤘

[@lblake5653]

Yassss that there was my shyt back in the day...

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Most of these are too mainstream to be considered forgotten

[@Vntge_Bby]

I LOVE CLASS OF 1999, ITS MY MOST FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME💖💖💖💖

[@HyenaXS]

I know right! Wooooooooo!

[@robertcarsten3127]

Robot Jox, I have literally been trying to find this movie for years. All I could remember was the fighting robots and the line about vodka tasting like blood. Thanks so much guys, earned a sub today.

[@lazyeyesurprise]

Hardware (1990) TC 2000 (1993) American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993) Screamers (1995)

[@themisfitbrigade]

Hardware is amazing

[@danielschmidtke9213]

American Cyborg and Hardware were great. Those movies are why I was obsessed with cyborgs as a kid.

[@sj_harris]

Adding my vote for Hardware, great film!

[@chichiboypumpi]

Also Virus 1999 with Jamie Lee Curtis

Don't forget the Olivier Gunner movies. Nemesis, the Automatic and the Savage. A love thoose movies.

[@mrmanceres7653]

"Robot jocks" and "Robot wars" when you can't afford the rights to Battletech but still want to make a Battletech movie.

[@ryanbrown938]

Robot Jox was so cool!!! I remember watching that film several times as a kid late Friday or Saturday nights on Cinemax and The Movie Channel with my dad.. Good Times Good Times

[@penagon24]

@@ryanbrown938 those were the days!

[@ryanbrown938]

@@penagon24 hell yea, man

[@darinr9424]

Agreed robot jox was awesome back then. Still fun to watch

[@lblake5653]

Lmaooooo I seen both...

[@BobSmith-gl3sn]

1984's Runaway with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons 😁 Still love those spiders.

[@ebee-uz1oz]

back in the day when Kirstie Alley was hot.

[@lblake5653]

Yasssss!

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

"Eliminators" (1986) is B-movie robo-schlock at its finest.

[@truefanforum3273]

Oh yeah. It has so much in it besides robots, and yet it works. It is so much fun.

[@penagon24]

That movie is great fun. I can only imagine how great it would be with a bigger budget.

[@uptownsamcv]

these videos are just sucking me in, I've been binge watching for hours !!

[@HyenaXS]

I remember watching Class of 1999 when I was a kid. It scared the living daylights out of me. That was a time when that HBO would play subversive movies late at night on the weekends. Some of the best days ever. They don't make them like that anymore.

[@InspiredVideosDaily]

I had it and the sequel on VHS... Played it until I wore the tape out! I was maybe 14... 😂😂

[@HyenaXS]

@@InspiredVideosDaily Yeah that's the one with Sasha Mitchell. They used to play that a lot too but not as much.

[@xxbananajoexx9580]

I love Death Machine....its my childhood 👍

[@starevo229]

I remember Saturn 3. That robot was terrifying.

[@wacrowder]

Missing the best one - - Hardware (1990)

[@elcabezon2222]

0:29 ow maaan ive was searching for that movie for years!!!! thank you so much! i saw it when i was a kid and has some pictures in my memory.... THANK YOU!!!

[@jamalvargas6146]

I Freakin' Love Solo He's Part Terminator Part Robocop and Has The Jungle Setting Of Predator Mario Van Peeble Killed It in That Movie

[@wadebrashear7517]

Join me in a Key and Peele Valet style freak out... I love me some Marios Van Peebleses! Marios Van Peebleses is my shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!

[@NelsonWin]

Solo... just solo..

[@danielbear3802]

Grew up watching solo it's a great movie very underrated. I think Highlander 3 is a great movie of Mario van peebels

[@robsanchez2038]

And part Seal

[@ryanbrown938]

Solo was oneof his best films in my opinion.. Posse still reigns supreme

[@sj_harris]

Still absolutely love Class of ‘99 - utterly brilliant crap! Robot Jox too! Would be great to see that again

[@ytndndrummer]

Solo capitalizes on Predator and co-stars Adrian Brody, who goes on to star in Predators.

[@paranormalgangsta]

Class of 1999!! Is my personal classic!!

[@augustusdiablues2843]

Yeah👍🏼

[@InspiredVideosDaily]

I managed to wear a VHS copy of it out I watched it that often haha😂

[@MJBBo]

Who doesn’t love giant robots!!!!!!

[@cybermerlin2000]

I don't know if this counts but Virtuosity. A film about a virtual simulation serial killer based on the behaviour profiles of all known serial killers gets put into a synthetic body and goes on a rampage. I enjoyed the way it repaired itself. Saturn 3: Hector. It's an old film. I mean it's got Farah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas in it before they got old!

[@pappajudas9267]

Was expecting at least one of the Nemesis movies.

[@BobaTheFett1970]

Saturn 3 should be on this list!

[@saltyessentials]

Killer Robots RULE! Thanks for another great video. Only one I hadn't seen, but now Space Truckers in on my list. :-) Great channel you've got going. I've got some genres below as food for thought/future lists. Obviously you've already been making videos on some of them, but I just pasted in from a big ol list I have.... Animals Attack, Apes, Apemen & Missing Links, Blaxploitation, Creepy Dolls, Dinosaurs, Disaster Films, TV & Film Documentaries (or just various lists of obscure/interesting documentaries), Frankenstein (SO many options here - various film versions, series, inspired by but not Frankenstein movies...), Giants, Godzilla, Hammer Films (Mummy series, Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.), Horror Anthologies, Invisible People, Jekyll and Hyde versions and rip offs, Jess Franco films, Kaiju, Luchador, Mummies, Peter Cushing Films, Pod People (not just Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but any sci fi or horror that uses doubles/imposters), Robots, Scarecrows, Sharks etc., Spiders and killer bugs, Superhero, etc. etc.

[@LysThePenguin]

Ladys and Gentlemen, the One! The ONLY!! G U N H E D !!! 14:58 Im still a great Fan of it, owning VHS, DVD, Soundtrack and of Course a Modell of Gunhed. Please Toho, bring Gunhed back. :-)

[@MarineKittyYT]

I thought for sure Runaway was going to be in this list.

[@ronnibech3376]

"first rule when dealing with the devil... Don't." from the movie "Solo"

[@InternetGravedigger]

Never saw Solo, but I read the book... if I remember right in the book Solo wasn't technically combat-ready, the mission was basically being used as a live-fire test. Battle damage caused the direct link to base to go down, and the on-board AI developed a more complex and complete personality than they believed possible, eventually deciding the local people deserved to be protected.

[@rodimus7926]

This movies had more heart and creativity than Terminator Dark Fate

[@nathanenfinger9559]

Ik I'm getting old when I remember watching Space Truckers

[@erikramaekers63]

.I remember watching 2001 in 1969 in my local cinema.I'm a dinosaur.

[@wendigo1619]

i love goofy oldschool "future tech" and we're using it in our own movie taking apart old computers and using broken ps2s, radar equipment and other old tech from the 80s/90s

[@alisonsmith4436]

Thank you 😊

[@brokenbridge6316]

I loved this video. I enjoyed every second of it. I will surely watch out for these movies should I ever come across them. Great job with this video. It was a good one.

[@psycholocke4090]

I Love gunhead! A Must view for all Robot Mecha Fans.

[@nemesis3587]

Wow, I tried to remember Robot Jox's name years, finally find it. Thank you.

[@casualsuede]

Fun Fact about Death Machine: This was the first movie of Rachel Weisz, who has a small role as a Junior Executive.

[@nigelcarren]

Not only do 'Cheesy Robots' sound delicious, but it means I HAVE TO subscribe! Damn... I am one pathetic individual! 🏆🤖

[@chichiboypumpi]

uni-sols aren't cyborgs they're re-animated dead soldiers, and the only good Universal Soldier movie is the first. A Van Damme film that has cyborgs is Cyborg 1989. Also should've been included in the list, Robo Warriors 1996, the 1979 Italian Star Wars knock-off with boobies Humanoid with Richard "Jaws" Kiel as the titular character, The Vindicator 1986,

[@adamb5438]

Hardware (1990) didn't make the list??😢

[@lecombustor3571]

Thumbdown for skipping that masterpiece

[@gmotionedc5412]

Awesome! Checking these out NOW

[@PaulVagner]

Space Truckers and Robot Jox were my favorite movies when i was younger...

[@kri249]

Well I'm pretty pissed we never got Death Machine in Australia. I would have loved that as kid. And glad to hear Gunhed got a mention. I own it on VHS and believe it gets the credit it deserves. Would also like to recommend Time Guardian for the list. It's got one of Carrie Fishers lesser known performances but still holds up today.

[@thePavuk]

I was searching for the Gunhead movie literaly for about 20-25 years!!! Thank you!! I saw it accidently as young in holiday bus, it was about 20 hours trip and bus driver had VHS movies that wasn't avaible in my country. All I remembered was few pieces of repair scenes and fight.

[@WizelBalan]

I always liked "Eliminators" where they had a cyborg guy testing time travel, fun action in the beginning and end.

[@truefanforum3273]

Hey, Death Machine had Brad (Chucky) Dourif in it. That's good enough for me.

[@trulex]

Awesome list with some of my favourites, I'd love to add Digital Man (1995) to this list, if you are a fan of the genre you'll definitely enjoy this one✌🏼

[@LotharTheFellhanded]

So much of Universal Soldier: The Return's comedy is "Goldberg is way fucking bigger than JCVD".

[@wesdbry]

I thought I would guide you to a little 1979 movie: C.H.O.M.P.S. It is about a robot dog. Its a family film, not killer robot. I don't to spoil it for those who havn't seen it, but thought I would bring it up as this video reminded me of it. It's only availible on vhs though...

[@rekhavc]

Robot Jox saw it at the theater. A masterpiece to be copied over and over. Pasic Rim ring any Bells? The Robot walking scene superb

[@robmahoney7781]

So we're just not going to mention cyborg, or the screamers franchise? Lol

[@jamescole6846]

Screamers was awesome.

[@lblake5653]

Screamerssssssd!!! Yes!

[@Ejones-xs9qg]

I have and seen them all except death machine...I watch these movies again and again all the time... looks like I got 1 more to get. I love these movies. I dont care what anyone says about them...and honestly. I don't look at them even as cheezy. I'm a true fan

[@DOI_ARTS]

Unisols aren't Robots they're just enhanced people.

[@chichiboypumpi]

YEAH, bravo

[@axelwulf6220]

Revive cadavers actually

[@chichiboypumpi]

@@axelwulf6220 militarized/weaponized zoms

[@ryanbrown938]

@@chichiboypumpi yup!!!

[@tdpp2006]

yes, enhanced corpses

[@MJBBo]

What a great list!!!!

[@wesrrowlands8309]

Class of 1999 still feels like a documentary at times when you watch the news.

[@Lutelro]

Yeah! I've watched all of this.

[@jamescole6846]

What is sad is I saw half of them at the movies and the other half the day they came out at Blockbuster. ;)

[@martinnrrekjrgrndahl3715]

Damn, Gunhed reminds me of Alien crossed with Tetsuo II: Bodyhammer

[@goattm2]

The Gunhed videogame on the PC Engine was awesome.

[@wolkaiserdrake9946]

I dont care if these are B movies, can we just appreciate the fact that most if not all of these used physical/practical effects? gunhed for example, that thing is physically there, the way it moves, the way things interact with it, I just love that

[@battlek7080]

Gonna have to check these out.

[@TwesomE]

Death machine was a really nice movie put together nicely with an awesome ending as well!

[@stanimirgeorgiev.87]

Ok, ok, I'm subscribed to you and regularly you get a thumbs up from me. Because you really have great content which I love to watch sometimes all day long..😁

[@augusthawks6576]

I've never seen any of these movies but a couple of them look interesting. I might check 'em out.

[@scruffblackie]

Robot Jox was top of the range effects when it came out.

[@misterbd9641]

Ahh, all bring back my earlier years. ❤

[@kevinmarsh9057]

Class of 1999 is an awesome movie

[@JerryListener]

This peaks my interest.

[@Skelta75]

Gunhed is awesome and aged very well. There's a beautiful Japanese Bluray out there...

[@Symos]

Fun fact about Gunhed, a game based on it was made for the Japanese PC Engine console. It did get a western release but the tie in aspects stripped. The result is Blazing Lazers

[@alexk8792]

We have Gunhed on VHS. Plus, I have Blazing Lazers on Nintendo Wii Virtual Console, and that game is known in Japan as Gunhed, as a tie-in to the movie.

[@derricklogan2058]

Well maintained, huh? GOLDBERG!!! GOLDBERG!!! GOLDBERG!!!

[@ABW941]

The wrestler?

[@derricklogan2058]

Goldberg, The Wrestler, was in Universal Soldier. The chant was just a part of my sarcasm.

[@ABW941]

@@derricklogan2058I didnt notice him, i didnt even know he was in that santa slasher movie, he is a very generic bald mountain of muscles, but dont tell him he might suplex me for this.

[@peterschmidt9942]

@@ABW941 I don't know about the suplex. Last time he was on PPV, he was having trouble dong his signature Jackhammer. But he'd probably still tear of ya head and shit in your neck 😂🤣

[@waraspan755]

In 1993, in Germany, Robot Wars was released as Robotjox 2. At the Beginning of Robotjox 2 there was even a collection of scenes of Robotjox 1 with a Text that described what happend after the Battle of Achilles and Alexander (Peace, Contracts, everyone was happy, I was about to spit up and the MRAS 2 was built). It has close the story-arc between this two films. I read this was made in germany only. Some years ago I found the films Robotjox, Robot Wars and Crash & Burn. But renamed as Robotjox 1, 2 and 3.

[@bucko60]

class of 1999 is one of my all-time favorites

[@bkr23]

Where's Hardware? Otherwise, great job, and kudos for remembering Gunhed!

[@johnryder1713]

Robot Jox official best line "I am gonna get in this thing, and kick your...." cut.

[@StarPlatinumV]

Did Goldberg just try to GORE JVCD?! DAMN!

[@rickerson81]

I literally laughed out loud when I heard "Texmexium". Some salsas can be dangerous for those with IBS....

[@vansavage528]

I watched death machine when I was a kid & loved it, will be looking for it to see again soon 👍

[@mylesmusgraves1373]

I love that movie! I just watched it again last night on Tubi or Pluto 😆

[@vansavage528]

@@mylesmusgraves1373. Are they streaming sites, torrent sites ?

[@mylesmusgraves1373]

@@vansavage528 not 100% sure man. I know if you use any app services for movie streaming you can catch it for free. Plex maybe.

[@TheSchnisshaller]

You forgot the great "American Cyborg"....

[@jamescole6846]

or just Cyborg (1989) with JCVD

[@trashcanhands19]

Robot Jox, a B-movie masterpiece!! ...Robot Wars (it's Full Moon "sequel"), not so much but still worth a watch ; )

[@mrgrimheart9207]

The 90s were so sweaty :D

[@LairdErnst]

Good selections.

[@BrentWelch-z8i]

I saw class of 1999 my freshmen year in high school. Great times.

[@samuelmedina9984]

Texmexium, that's funny

[@InspiredVideosDaily]

Haha I bought Class of 1999 on VHS from a car boot sale for about £1 when I was about 14... Ended up watching it about 50 times! Its absolutely awful but also so brilliant! I recognised it from literally the first frame of your recap! 😂😂😅

[@TheNutter44]

-i first saw robot jox back in 1990 when i was only 6 yrs old ( of course with a parent supervision ) - i've seen solo too back in 1998 - i've universal soldier back in 2000 - i've never seen gunhed ( although it kinda reminds me of terminator in parts) - i've never heard of robot wars ( i think) - ( FROM THE LIST I'VE ONLY SEEN THREE OF THEM)

[@TheRogueAstronaut]

Thank you for not putting Virus on this list.

[@robertwinkler8640]

Oh, Gunhed... and the early '90s, when bona fide film geeks spent their Friday evenings at Suspect Video (and other semi-clandestine video stores) in Toronto, hunting for illegal VHS copies of esoteric and exotic SF fare...😎 Back in those days, to get a Masters in Nerdism you needed to swear on the holy sextet of having seen 1) Aliens European cut, 2) Gunhed, 3) Hardware, 4) Akira, 5) This Quiet Earth, and 6) Tetsuo I & II. ...and you were only entitled to a printed copy of your glorious degree if you could show your own (preferably poor quality) copy of Vangelis' sound track to Blade Runner... 🤣🥰

[@homeaccount5943]

Van Damme movies are always fun, especially his earlier movies, like Timecop !

[@GérannGerberChannel]

Great video MV, I really enjoyed it!!

[@Breamin]

Hardware was better than any of the others and yet no mention.

[@jamescole6846]

Agreed

[@jamesnelson5741]

Robot Jox is my favorite movie on this list.

[@profpep]

Pretty good list - but, unless 'Hardware' rates as an A movie, it's one you missed.

[@LotharTheFellhanded]

I actually saw Solo as a kid, we picked it out at the video store.

[@NEUR0MANCER_]

You forgot the greatest cyber punk B action duology. Guyver and Guyver II dark hero. Which have stood the test of time, and is the definitive movie of this genre. And when universal soldier came out, it wasnt a b movie. everyone was waiting for it, and sure, it kind of went sideways, but people liked it at the time. I was a kid when it came out, but I had already been a major movie buff, and loved te original universal soldier, and terminator, predator etc. and I was like 10 or 11 when US the return came out.