Poster

Hardware

Year

1990

Genre

Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country

UK, USA

Director

Richard Stanley

Writer

Steve MacManus, Kevin O'Neill

Actors

Carl McCoy, Iggy Pop, Dylan McDermott, John Lynch, Mark Northover, Stacey Travis, Paul McKenzie, Lemmy, William Hootkins, Chris McHallem, Barbara Yu Ling, Oscar James, Arnold Lee, Susie Savage

Description

A wandering soldier finds a robot head in the post-apocalyptic desert. He brings it back to his girlfriend for use in one of her sculptures. He investigates the origin of the head, and discovers it's from the Mark 13 project, canceled because of unreliability. His girlfriend, nay, society at large become endangered when the robot puts itself back together using the parts she has for her sculptures. ------- In the future, a nuclear war has transformed the Earth into a radioactive wasteland where the sea has dried up leaving it as a post-apocalyptic desert. In the desert, A desert scavenger named Nomad discovers a robotic head, arriving in New York City, A space marine named Moses Baxter buys the robotic head from Nomad as a Christmas present for his girlfriend Jill Grakowski, who decides to use it for one of her sculptures. But all hell starts breaking loose, when the robotic head is activated and begins to rebuilt itself. When Alvy, a junkyard dealer discover the robotic head is a Mark 13, a military cyborg of a project that was abandoned. Moses learns Jill's life is in danger, as the Mark 13 cyborg goes on a violent rampage in Jill's apartment as Jill has become the the prime target for extermination. ------- In the desert wasteland of a post-apocalyptic future, a scavenger known as a "Zone Tripper" discovers some robotic remains which he sells on to a marine returning home from an off-world tour of duty. After failing to negotiate a decent price with a local junk dealer called Alvy, the marine, Mo, decides to give the dismantled robot to his girlfriend Jill as a Christmas present. But as she begins to use the wreckage in a sculpture she's been working on, a frantic call from Alvy brings Mo back to the junk yard, where he discovers that the robot is more than just a service droid; it is a MARK 13: a military robot suffering a major design fault that rendered it a deadly killing machine. But worse than that, the Mark 13 is capable of self-repair. With Jill trapped in her apartment, the terrifying fight for survival begins. Will any flesh be spared?

Comments

Duration

91 minutes (at 25 frames per second)

Filesize

541 MB

Video

DivX 5 - resolution: 720x390

Audio