Directed by Albert Band, Robot Wars is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film set in 2041, where giant combat robots remain among the most powerful weapons on Earth. Don Michael Paul stars as mech pilot Drake, who teams with archaeologist Leda Fanning, played by Barbara Crampton, when a hidden robot becomes part of a plot that could destabilize the surviving world order. The film was produced by Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment and uses extensive stop-motion effects for its giant robot battles.

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From director Albert Band comes ROBOT WARS, the follow up to 1989’s cult classic ROBOT JOX.

In a gas-ravaged future Hell, the United States is divided into two opposing blocs, the North Hemi and the Eastern Alliance and targeting them both are roving bands of pirates known as the Centros. 

While “mega robots” were once employed for war, peace between the blocs has dictated that the mechanized monsters are no more, save for the lone remaining functioning specimen the MRAS-2, now utilized as a tourist attraction, and piloted by the rough and tumble Drake (Don Michael Paul). But when a war-mongering dignitary steals the MRAS-2 and threatens to wage a new apocalyptic battle, Drake revives another dormant “mega robot”, the MEGA-1, and drags it out into the desert to take down the deadly, scorpion-like MRAS-2 with the fate of what’s left of the world hanging in the balance!

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A renegade Megarobot pilot and an archaeologist must team up to thwart the Centro's attempts to resurrect a hidden Megarobot, with which they can challenge the prevailing order.