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
723 Views


multifacited combat systems.

The fully armed model storage tubes,

carry an additional chemical weapon.

A cell destroying toxin,

Trifilobim Morphate.

Hey, hey, what the f***?

...and sensory distortion,

followed by death.

Sh*t!

Jill, Jill?

Sh*t!

Alright... Shades! Yes!

Shades! Okay... thank god youre home man.

I need your help.

- Hi... hi.

- Shades, listen to me! This is serious!

Jill is in trouble, you gotta help her.

This is serious man!

Its cool... its cool... its cool.

- Whats wrong with you Shades?

- I can feel my heart.

- Shades, whats wrong with you?

- It feels like an alligator.

Shades, whats wrong with you man?

You know that a... that tablett

of aminoflash that I was saving?

No... no... no. Dont do this Shades.

Not now... not now!

Not thonight... not thonight Shades!

Listen to me.

Shades! Shades! Shades, listen to me!

Shades! Listen to me Shades!

Come back! Come back Shades!

Jesus Christ, you are so f***ing beautiful.

Jesus Christ!

- Shades, listen to me. This is serious.

- Whats that... what was that?

I want you to get out of the appartment.

I want you to get Jill right now,

right f***ing now!

I want you to bring her back to your place

and lock the door untill I get there.

- Are you listening to me?

- Just let me get my trousers on, okay?

Shades, listen... Im counting on you man.

Im counting on you... okay?

Everything... is under... control.

Hi.

No!

- Its okay.

- Who are you?

Im a neighbour.

What do you want?

Lincon Weinberg Jr.

You can call me Lincon or Link.

I just wanted to be sure you are alright.

Im fine! Look, my boyfriend is asleep

in the other room.

Your boyfriend?

So... I think you better go now!

I dont think to much of

his boyfriend of yours.

I dont see anything going on between you,

you know... nothing real, nothing permanent.

- Its really why I came here.

- God, get back!

Listen... I know alot about you.

I know things about you, that you

probably dont even... admit.

- You always been my favorite subject.

- Oh Jesus!

Oh, wow! What was that?

Theres a droid running crazy in my lounge.

- Thats okay, we can go to my place.

- Why wont this work?

Someones activated the emergency override,

you can only disengage from the main consol.

- How do you now? - I used to be

with the surveillance company...

...that installed all the locks and cameras

in this whole block a few years ago.

Thats how we know each other.

You made me a coffee while I was here.

- Black... two sugars?

- I dont remember.

- Its okay. I dont mind.

- Now what?

Sounds like something is overloading

the main powerframe.

- Well, look Mr... Weinberg.

- Lincon... you call me Link, please.

- Lincon. Can you get us out of here?

- Wheres the main terminal?

Its in the living room,

but you cant go in there.

Thats okay. Its alright,

I know what Im doing.

Come on, you can trust me.

Keep talking, so I know where you are.

Im right here.

Hello in there?

- Man, I bet that android is anywhere...

- Ouch! -Hey?

Lincon?

- Lincon?

- Its okay! Im alright!

Theres nothing in here!

- Whats his name?

- Whos?

- Your boyfriends.

- Moses.

Moses? Jesus, some name.

Hes not around very much, is he?

You ought to get somebody closer to home.

- Somebody, kind of like... a neighbour.

- Just fix the frickin' consol, okay!

You smoke alot of dope.

I see you.

Does it get your boyfirend hard or what?

I get people dope sometimes...

...when they come around to my place

and it gets them hard.

You can stop talking now.

What if I sing?

You want me to sing?

I dont really care,

just get us out of here.

Okay.

Ooo we all walk the wibberly

wobberly walk...

And we all talk the wibberly

wobberly talk.

We all wear wibberly

wobberly ties...

And we look at all the pretty girls

with wibberly wobberly eyes.

I made that up.

Look. Im gonna make two things

very clear to you right now:

One... there is no other way

out of here...

...so that means

that droid is still in here somewhere.

And two...

You just want me to leave.

I just want you to open the door.

Why are you so afraid of me?

Im not afraid of you.

Two... my boyfriend is in the corps.

He just got back from the zone.

He just went out for a pack of cigarettes.

Any second he is going to walk through

that door.

And we dont want him to get the wrong idea!

Do we?

Check! Good thinking.

Okay, this should just about do it.

So we can go?

- Er... wait... Im just gonna...

- What?

- Your blinds!

- What about them?

You closed them! I just wanna...

Ooo we all walk the wibberley

wobberly walk.

- No I didnt.

- And we all talk the wibberly...

No I didnt. Dont!

You dont wanna keep these closed. You wont

be able to see Santa Clause coming.

Help me!

- Check... and mate.

- Hey Chief! Howd you do that?

I didnt even see that coming.

Cecilia Momomba.

Thats how you beat computers when you play.

And she dont understand sacrifice and

neither do morons. Read!

Go away!

Help me! God!

Infrared. The bastards using... infrared.

Scream... scream... scream...

Jill!

Jill, you in there?!

Eat that! Motherf***er!

Why?

- I dont know man. She wouldnt...

- Get out of the way!

Jill!

Jill!

Jill, open the door!

Open the door Jill!

Jill!

We got him, okay! We got him!

Hes dead baby!

Hes dead!

I got him!

Hes gone!

Put that fire out over there!

- Come on man, turn the alarm off!

- Come on, get on...come on, move along!

Alright! Chief man, cool down.

Why dont you just take chillpill man,

Im getting rid of it.

Stop messing around and put that fire out!

What are you doing?

Move it! Come on, move it!

Okay! Im here, Im here.

Ill take care of you, okay?

- Here we go.

- I can do it!

Lets just put this on.

Here we go. Here we go.

This is... a serious... f*** up Max.

Okay. Here we go.

Vernon! Well come here boy!

- Who is the stiff?

- I dont know.

Never seen him before.

Jeez, its beautiful.

Hope it didnt hit anybody.

Hey Mo!

The fire is out! You wanna call

the cops and get an ambulance?

I already had somebody call.

They should have been here by now!

They are to f***ing late,

its all over!

Calm down Jill.

- Over! Its to late Mo!

- Youre in shock Jill, youre in shock.

- To late! You f***ing left me!

- Im right here. Im not going anywhere.

- But for how long?

- From now on baby, okay?

Im gonna take care of you.

Everything is gonna be alright.

I dont care about the money.

Ill get something together here.

Maybe...maybe you and I should live in

New York. Just the three of us.

Alright Shades. Im looking

forward to that, okay?

You never had to come back, did you?

All that bullshit about your contract!

You just wanna be able to leave

whenever you feel like it.

Na, na, you dont understand Jill.

- You dont understand.

- Guys, Ive got to go.

- Hell of a lie wasnt it?

- No it wasnt a lie. It was...

They threw me out Jill.

- They threw me out.

- Doesnt matter...Its all a lie.

Youre lying if you think that

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