Hardware Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): Richard Stanley
Production: Millimeter Films
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
1990
94 min
652 Views


Thats it... Thats my b*tch!

Yeah... squeez it!

F***ing b*tch.

God, I love you.

Sweet.

This is a military file. Do not proceed

without correct security clearence.

Please select correct combat

system required.

BAAL7697

Biomechanical auto-independent

artificially intelligent lifeform.

Fairisle Electronics presents

its new model:
The MARK-13.

Ready...on...boil.

...widespreed deficiency related diseases

in the inner city.

Elsewere in the news:

Popular support has been swift and loud...

...for the proposed emergency population

control bill.

The bill would mandate...

- Its raining.

- What?

- I thought it was raining.

- God, I wish.

I was dreaming.

I could hear the rain...

on the glass.

And you were laying beside me...

in the dream.

- I like it.

- Really, I think its okay.

Where did you get all the babydolls?

Shades found a whole

box of them in the streets.

Well I provided the crowning touch, eh?

Did you hear about the new population

bill they are trying to put through?

No.

They are trying to stop people from

having kids in the next few years.

Gonna levy fines against people

that have to many.

Take away their ration coupons.

Sterilize people who already have...

- ...high enough doses of radioactivity.

- It will never work.

Its our nature to reproduce.

To live on.

Man has always gone against their nature.

Used to be natural to die

of old age before 30.

What are you saying?

You like the idea?

No, I just...think its stupid and suicidal

and sadistic to have children right now.

Stupid, sadistic and suicidal...

The three Ss.

- Thats how I feel.

- Thats how you feel, eh?

And what is this?

Somekind statement about all that?

- No.

- Because if it is, I dont get it.

You know, whats the head

supposed to mean anyway?

It doesnt mean anything!

Its... its not for you.

Its not for anybody.

I guess not. All Im saying, is that

it be nice if you could sell something...

- ...every once in a while, wouldnt it?

- Look, Im doing alright on my own.

- I dont need anything from you.

- I dont know about that.

Goverment takes a pretty big hunk

out of my paycheck every month.

Where do you think your welfare checks

are coming from, eh?

What do you want me to do?

You want me to join your corps?

Think of what our radioactiv kids

will be like then.

I stopped thinking about kids

a long time ago.

You always say that things will change.

Maybe they will.

Oh yeah they will... they will.

They are going to get worse

before they get better.

- Survival of the fittest.

- Youd like that, wouldnt you?

Oh yeah, I like that.

And why not? Im one of the fittest.

Keep asking myself why

I let you in everytime.

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Steve MacManus

Steve MacManus (sometimes credited as Ian Rogan) is a British comic writer and editor, particularly known for his work at 2000 AD. more…

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