Hardware

The future. In a wind-lashed, sun-scorched desert landscape, a ragged figure, the Nomad, uncovers the head and severed torso of a Mark 13. Mark 13 is the ultimate soldier, the closest thing to artificial intelligence money can buy, heat-resistant, bullet-proof, self-repairing. The torso becomes the property of Moses Baxter, heading for home, crossing a landscape laid waste by war, to see his old girlfriend, Jill. A nightmare begins when Jill finds herself trapped in her apartment with a creature designed to destroy and kill without mercy.

Comment:
Hardware started out as more of a sci-fi movie, but it became more of a horror movie as it went along. To some extent, that happened while we were shooting, but also at the scripting stage. There were a lot of things in the script which people found very scary, so we tried to play them up a little. It got to be quite good fun, trying to see how many horror conventions we could touch on in the course of the movie.
There's a fantastical element in there too, because Mark 13 is very much a mechanical creature that's trying to be alive. But it's also representative of the worst of technology gone haywire.

Richard Stanley

Medverkande
Dylan McDermott, Stacy Travis, John Lynch, Iggy Pop, Lemmy, William Hootkins: Producent
Joanne Sellar, Paul Trybits: Manus
Richard Stanley: Foto
Steve Chivers: Musik
Simon Boswell: Talat språk
English