Product Details

• Actors: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Laura Belli, Gino Santercole, Mario Piave
• Directors: Umberto Lenzi
• Writers: Ernesto Gastaldi
• Producers: Luciano Martino
• Format: Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: NoShame Films
• DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009WFEV4
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,044 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Almost Human" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

New York Times, July 26, 05

This genuinely disturbing film ... but displays even less moral distance from its repellent protagonist.

Product Description

"Almost Human is one of those definitive Euro Crime films that embodies what the genre is all about. Milan is perfect!" – Ian Jane, DVDManiacs.net

"Highly recommended! Almost Human is a wonderful Euro Crime film and if you haven't seen it, you are in for a real treat!" – Eurohorrordvds.net

Giulio Sacchi is a psychotic small-time thief with a chip on his shoulder who’s leaving a slew of dead bodies all over Milan. Now he’s got a plan to make a quick and easy 500 million Lira: Kidnap the daughter of a local billionaire and hold her for ransom. And nothing is going to stop Giulio from getting his money – not even Inspector Walter Grandi, Milan’s toughest cop who’s hot on Sacchi’s trail. Now, the police are racing to find the kidnapped girl and stop the ticking time bomb that is Giulio Sacchi before he explodes and leaves more death and carnage in his wake.

ALMOST HUMAN is the gritty and exciting polizia thriller from director Umberto Lenzi (NIGHTMARE CITY, MAN FROM DEEP RIVER) and screenwriter Ernesto Gstaldi (MY NAME IS NOBODY, THE CASE OF THE SCORPION’S TAIL). Filled with tough, brutal and bloody action sequences, it contains powerful performances from Tomas Milan (TRAFFIC, BOCCACCIO 70) as the "almost human" Sacchi and screen legend Henry Silva (OCEAN’S ELEVEN, THE TALL T, and ABOVE THE LAW) as Grandi, with a memorable score from legendary composer Ennio Morricone (THE UNTOUCHABLES, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST). Also starring Ray Lovelock (LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE) and Anita Strindberg (WHO SAW HER DIE?), ALMOST HUMAN is a tough-as-nails entertainmeant that’s almost human and always thrilling.

NoShame Films is proud to present ALMOST HUMAN for the first time on video in the U.S. in its original widescreen aspect ratio, digitally re-mastered from the original negative, uncut and uncensored, the only way it should be!

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars compares with scarface as a top crime movie, November 27, 2008

By	Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Umberto Lenzi made some great crime/thriller movies during the seventies.
This was probably the best of them. And there are a number of reasons for this; the biggest reason being the great performances given by tomas milan and henry silva. The rest of the cast is first class as well.
But tomas milan really tears up the screen as the monstrous sociopath
who is very small time and comes from the lowest of situations. He is
without any morality or loyalty and he has a chip on his shoulder. So that he sees his crimes as payback for living such a deprived life.
Umberto Lenzi created a film that is a true picture of evil that in some ways rivals the classic 'scarface" movies. (both versions) This movie is straightforward about the depraved killer and his cruelty , who is at best almost human. At this point in Lenzi's career he was doing everything right. He made a series of really great movies like: "oasis of fear", "seven blood stained orchids" , "milano rovente" , 'eyeball" , 'syndicate sadists",
"the cynic, the rat and the fist" and the acceptable 'knife of ice" and the really great 'Rome armed to the teeth" which also featured Tomas milan in another savage performance. These movies showcase his expertise
at storytelling and his tight direction style. People who have only seen Lenzi's later movies will be shocked at how good Lenzi was during his 1970's peak. And if you like gritty fast moving crime flicks with lots of violence then this movie is for you.

3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very well-made giallo!, May 7, 2006

By	WLR (Chicago, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

Everybody probably already knows that giallo means yellow in Italian. They used to churn out cheap thrillers on yellow paper, the same idea as pulp fiction. Well, this one is certainly a cut or two above average. It reminded me a lot of the Sam Pekinpah movie Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, which by the way came out at right about the same time, in that it tells the story of a pathetic loser who lives a life of small time crime but dreams about that one big score that will set him up for life. In this case the guy, a punk in Milan, Italy, decides to kidnap the only daughter of a rich businessman. There is also an obscure Marlon Brando movie called the Night of the Following Day, which I have heard a lot about but don't believe that I've actually seen, with a VERY similar plot Anyway, he puts together a remarkably well thought out plan, brings in some accomplices, and pulls it off. He does incredibly well at responding to unexpected setbacks and so forth. I found it to be somewhat annoyingly disjointed, however, in that he would seem to constantly bounce back and forth between a whiny screwup punk and cool-headed criminal mastermind. I found it difficult to understand how he can be both people at the same time? There are some very sadistic scenes that reminded me of Rob Zombie's movie the Devil's Rejects. Thirty years ago I probably would have been satisfied with the scenes in this movie but after seeing the Devil's Rejects (and thereby becoming admittedly jaded) I guess I just found these scenes to be too few and too abbreviated. Henry Silva plays a stalwart police inspector relentlessly pursuing the case who like Dirty Harry finds that the Law prevents him from doing a satisfactory job. I won't give away the exact ending but I found it to be too simplistic. In real life Henry Silva would have gone to the girl's rich father and explain that he knows who did it but can't do anything legally. Then the two of them would have approached some vicious gangsters and arranged for them to meet out some underworld justice. That would have been a perfect ending. For those people who are familiar with the Trinity movies the dubbed in English soundtrack has the punk protagonist with Trinity's voice and the judge at the end has Bambino's voice.