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Old 24th April 2011, 06:17 PM
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i don't understand how people on here can class Hardware as a horror film, it's a sci-fi movie, it's set in a post-apocalyptic world with a killer robot, it's exactly like the Terminator but that's not classed as horror. It baffles me.
Hope you don't mind me moving your post to the 1990 thread, ped but I'm trying to keep that other thread for complete lists only.

While I understand your points, for me Hardware is definitely more horror-themed than Terminator. For one, the Terminator franchise is mainly built around action with big budget explosions and action set-pieces making up the majority of the story, whilst Hardware concentrates solely on the malevolent killing instinct of the machine (3/4 of the film is the machine on the loose hunting and killing in an apartment). Also the fact that the machine in question is a completely non-emotional killing machine (there are no dialogue exchanges or human elements to it whatsoever unlike the Terminator films), may also infer a horror vibe.

I see Hardware in the same light as I do a monster movie; just that the monster is made of metal.

The Terminator films I see more as action movies, as there are more to them than actual cold-blooded killing.
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Old 24th April 2011, 06:35 PM
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Hope you don't mind me moving your post to the 1990 thread, ped but I'm trying to keep that other thread for complete lists only.

While I understand your points, for me Hardware is definitely more horror-themed than Terminator. For one, the Terminator franchise is mainly built around action with big budget explosions and action set-pieces making up the majority of the story, whilst Hardware concentrates solely on the malevolent killing instinct of the machine (3/4 of the film is the machine on the loose hunting and killing in an apartment). Also the fact that the machine in question is a completely non-emotional killing machine (there are no dialogue exchanges or human elements to it whatsoever unlike the Terminator films), may also infer a horror vibe.

I see Hardware in the same light as I do a monster movie; just that the monster is made of metal.

The Terminator films I see more as action movies, as there are more to them than actual cold-blooded killing.
no problem with the moving of my post, even though i love the film, i've always seen it more as SF than horror, i suppose when thinking about it there is a degree of horror to it....great film though.
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no problem with the moving of my post, even though i love the film, i've always seen it more as SF than horror, i suppose when thinking about it there is a degree of horror to it....great film though.
Yeah, I love it - I'm a big fan of Richard Stanley and Hardware for me is his best film.
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Old 24th April 2011, 09:27 PM
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I just saw that "Begotten" is on the list, my head is still hurting from watching that one. I had to go on a David Lynch film marathon to get some normality back in my life afterwards.
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Nightbreed for me!!!
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I'm currently on Stanley's HARDWARE on BD.Cracking cult gem.

Jacob's Ladder takes a bit of beating though.
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Another guilty pleasure I saw on the big screen in this year (I think) was Ralph Singleton's GRAVEYARD SHIFT....It wasn't on for long and vanished after maybe a fortnight.....

It was on in the old ABC/CANON cinema in the smallest auditorium.

That cinema in Sauchiehall Street was like a 42nd Street fleapit!
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Nightbreed for me!!!
I've never been a big fan of Nightbreed. I know it's got huge cult appeal, but I found it quite dull.
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No wonder people want to go round shooting JR!

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I really like Hardware, but the choice is between The Exorcist III and Jacob's Ladder and, much as I love the latter, I'm going to go with William Peter Blatty's film as, aside from the studio mandated exorcism scene, it is faithful to Blatty's excellent novel and has a couple of superb jumps.

The Exorcist III
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