Hardware (1990)
Directed by Richard Stanley
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.
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Given the energy and talent poured into the project, and Jodorowsky's undiminished passion for it, we can almost accept, on faith if not in fact, the estimation of Hardware director Richard Stanley: "Dune is probably the greatest movie never made."
The movie looks great; the design work by Joseph Bennett (who cut his teeth on Richard Stanley’s maligned Hardware and Dust Devil ) combines the ominous atmosphere of a looming cathedral with dark art deco.
This pastoral psychedelic body-horror has a definite stylised weirdness, which is no surprise, given that it stars Nicolas Cage, was adapted from a story by HP Lovecraft and is directed by Richard Stanley, the cult creator of Hardware and Dust Devil.
Similarly, director Richard Stanley has been highly regarded among the genre community since his films Hardware and Dust Devil in the early '90s, but has avoided directing any narrative genre stories for the better part of 30 years.
Directed and adapted by South African-born filmmaker Richard Stanley (“Hardware”), a descendant of Welsh explorer-journalist Henry Stanley and the subject of the 2014 documentary “Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau,” this “Color Out of Space” has a lot of baggage.
After attaining a niche audience of fans with Hardware (1990) and Dust Devil (1992), Stanley booked his dream job: directing a big budget version of The Island of Dr. Moreau .
South African Stanley applied for his place in the cult classic Pantheon with post-apocalyptic rager Hardware in 1990 and desert horror Dust Devil in 1992.
The South African filmmaker caught some attention for his 1990 cyberpunk film Hardware – years before the sci-fi sub-genre went mainstream – and his low-budget supernatural film Dust Devil.
Wan no oculta que estamos frente a una cruza entre La Mala Semilla ( The Bad Seed , 1956), de Mervyn LeRoy, Las Esposas de Stepford ( The Stepford Wives , 1975), de Bryan Forbes, Chucky: El Muñeco Diabólico ( Child’s Play , 1988), de Tom Holland, Hardware (1990), de Richard Stanley, y La Huérfana ( Orphan , 2009), de Jaume Collet-Serra, e incluso coquetea con el slasher una vez que nuestra muñeca tuneada avant-garde desata su furia contra todos aquellos que amenazan física o psicológicamente a Cady, como el perro de la vecina Celia (Lori Dungey), un animal que se abalanza contra el androide y la niña cuando ambos osan entrar en la morada contigua, o un purrete psicópata llamado Brandon (Jack Cassidy), quien “viola” simbólicamente a M3GAN -esto es el mainstream yanqui, casi todo está vedado para lograr una baja calificación por edad para el estreno masivo en salas- cuando se lleva a la muñeca, la tira al suelo, le saca un zapato, la golpea en la cara e incluso le agarra el pelo, ganándose q…
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The early scenes of Max negotiating his frustrating, ugly world, with its crowded buses, interminable lines and cheap pleasures, reveal Blomkamp's debt to such dystopian predecessors -- mostly from the 1970s -- as "THX-1138," "Soylent Green," "Mad Max," "Blade Runner," Richard Stanley's "Hardware," "Children of Men," even Spielberg's "A.I.