Hardware

Hardware

1990 · 93 min · EN · R · 5.9 (253 votes)
Dir. Richard Stanley · Starring Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Carl McCoy, Iggy Pop · Music Simon Boswell

You can't stop progress.

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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.

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A grim, grimy vision of a future where art and survival collide. This film feels like a fever dream, a claustrophobic descent into a world of junk sculptures and relentless killer robots. It's a brutal, lo-fi nightmare.

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