Cult film Hardware is being released in a 25th Anniversary Limited Edition (on DVD and Blu-ray), featuring art cards created by 2000Ad’s Clint Langley, on 23rd February 2015. Starring Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, Iggy Pop and Lemmy; and directed by Richard Stanley, the film is inspired by the 2000Ad story Shok! by Steve MacManus and Kevin O’Neill.
Radiation clouds choke the sky and over-crowded mega-cities threaten to dissolve into madness. A wandering junk merchant finds the remains of a defunct robot and sells them to Mo, also a nomad, who buys them for his urban artist girlfriend named Jill to use in her work. But he doesn’t know the robot is a self-regenerating prototype, a military drone intended to control the exploding population utilizing indiscriminate, gruesome murder. Trapped, alone in her apartment and spied on by her perverted neighbor, Jill must battle to survive against a...
Radiation clouds choke the sky and over-crowded mega-cities threaten to dissolve into madness. A wandering junk merchant finds the remains of a defunct robot and sells them to Mo, also a nomad, who buys them for his urban artist girlfriend named Jill to use in her work. But he doesn’t know the robot is a self-regenerating prototype, a military drone intended to control the exploding population utilizing indiscriminate, gruesome murder. Trapped, alone in her apartment and spied on by her perverted neighbor, Jill must battle to survive against a...
- 1/21/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Hardware (1990) Direction: Richard Stanley Screenplay: Richard Stanley, with additional dialogue by Michael Fallon; from Steve MacManus and Kevin O’Neill’s story "Shok!" Cast: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis Hardware What did you get your sweetie for Christmas? Mo (Dylan McDermott), a Marine just barely scratching a living out of the post-nuke wasteland of Richard Stanley’s Hardware, valiantly favors the thoughtful approach over blind expense. For only a pittance – "fifty" of whatever-the-official-currency-in-this-particular-dystopia-is – he buys a bag of disassembled robot fragments off of a junk-collecting drifter to give to his shut-in sculptor girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis). This turns out to be just what her latest work-in-progress needs and, after a bit of welding and painting, she builds [...]...
- 4/9/2010
- by Dan Erdman
- Alt Film Guide
You Can't Stop Progress. Hardware Directed by Richard Stanley In a post-apocalyptic future somewhere in a radioactive desert, terminally ill Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) has just returned from scavenging for whatever waste he may find that could be of use to him either back home or for sale. Along his journey he discovers some robotic parts from some unknown android which he brings to his dope-smoking sculptor girlfriend Julie (Stacey Travis) as a Christmas present. She incorporates it into her latest piece, but neither of them is aware that the hardware is actually a robot programmed to kill humans. After settling in and reconnecting following his long absence, their reunion is cut short when the robot awakens, reassembles itself and resumes its original purpose as a government-sponsored population control droid. Despite few similarities, Hardware was dismissed by most as a rip-off of The Terminator. In fact, the film was heavily...
- 11/9/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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