1990 · sci-fi · horror
Hardware
Directed by Richard Stanley1h 33m1990
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Our read: Hardware (1990) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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