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Dale’s Triple-Feature — Killer Robots

Technological monstrosities out for blood, human blood

Dale Thomas
2 min readDec 24, 2020
Hardware (1990)

This is part of a series in which I suggest three related movies to watch. You can find more information and the list of recommendations here.

From an age of rapid technological progress, here are three movies that tap into our fear of it getting out of control. After decades of being promised shiny, polite, robotic servants, some filmmakers looked at the horror of advanced robotic beings.

Moontrap (1989)

Moontrap (1989)

A mission to the moon awakens a dormant technology, unleashing killer alien cyborgs that wreak havoc.

Hardware (1990)

Hardware (1990)

In a post-apocalyptic future, the disembodied head of a self-repairing killer robot is discovered and unwittingly brought back to life.

Virus (1999)

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Dale Thomas
Dale Thomas

Written by Dale Thomas

Scifi writer, roboticist, and game developer, 2x Quora Top Writer. I write about writing speculative fiction, computer graphics, AI, evolution, and programming.

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