Hardware

(1990)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 358 votes

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Year: 1990

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Richard Stanley

Cast: Дилан Макдермотт, Stacey Travis, Джон Линч, Уильям Хуткинс, Carl McCoy, Iggy Pop, Mark Northover, Paul McKenzie, Oscar James, Лемми Килмистер

Plot

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.

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.