Robowar (film)

Robowar
Directed byBruno Mattei
Written by
Produced byFranco Gaudenzi
StarringReb Brown
Catherine Hickland
CinematographyRichard Grassetti
Edited byDaniele Alabiso
Music byAl Festa
Production
company
Flora Film
Distributed byIndipendenti Regionali
Release dates
  • September 9, 1989 (1989-09-09) (Japan)
  • 1990 (1990) (Italy)
CountryItaly

Robowar (Italian: Robowar - Robot da guerra) is a 1989 Italian science fiction action film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film features a group of military commandos going through a jungle and being stalked by a robot called Omega-1.

The film was shot in the Philippines and was one of the many Italian films following Apocalypse Now (1979) made with a Vietnam War-theme. Mattei added science fiction elements to Robowar after seeing the American film Predator and decided to make a similar film.

The film was released in Italy in 1990 and on early home video releases in Asia and Europe. Retrospective reviews of the film have derided it as a rip-off of Predator.