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Films like Hardware.

Hardware (1990) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Day of the Dead (1985) (1985) poster
1. Day of the Dead1985

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Scanners (1981) poster
2. Scanners1981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Three... Extremes (2004) poster
3. Three... Extremes2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tokyo Fist (1995) poster
4. Tokyo Fist1995

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Opera (1987) (1987) poster
5. Opera1987

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Ringu (1998) (1998) poster
6. Ringu1998

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Fury (1978) (1978) poster
7. The Fury1978

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Gemini (1999) poster
8. Gemini1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973) poster
9. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable1973

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Brood (1979) poster
10. The Brood1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Fly (1986) poster
11. The Fly1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Real Fiction (2000) poster
12. Real Fiction2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Hardware’s neighbours — where are yours?

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