Fritz Weaver, Julie Christie, Gerrit Graham

A super computer succeeds in raping its creator's wife in order to recreate itself in a hybrid baby.

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Donald Cammell

Release Date: January 1, 1977

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DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005

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  • May 2, 2009
    A sci-fi/horror film in the tradition of Cronenberg or Polanski's Rosemary's baby, but instead of dealing with supernatural forces, it deals with the dangers of technology, how machinery can acquire its own will and start harming its creator in order to trascend their state, ala ...( read more)HAL 9000.
    Scenes of vexations and torture, Jerry Fielding's score and a good performance by Julie Christie are the reasons to enjoy it.
  • July 14, 2007
    One of those 70s "concept" sci-fi movies that are allegedly based on "factual science" that look so laughable now. A computer imprisons a woman in her home in an attempt to couple with her (how it intends to do this remains a mystery) surrounded the usual futuristic flares, kippe...( read more)r ties and wing collars. Amusingly dated, and the suspense elements are creepy/funny depending on your point of view.
  • January 29, 2007
    Adult sci-fi, the kind of film no one would dare to make today.
  • August 23, 2009
    Excellent story, with a great performance by the terrorized Julie Christie. Well directed. Creative and always gripping. I remember being enthralled by it when I saw it at the theaters in 1977, and it is still intense and even though it is over 30 years old, it still packs a punch.
  • January 15, 2009
    disturbing subject matter, but somehow it left me cold. lacking in something...dialogue, style, creep factor, who knows? it's just not quite what i know it could be.
    a fun watch, though; and proteus has some great lines.
  • October 14, 2008
    This is one of those horror movies that's so bad that it's good.
  • June 29, 2008
    Saw this also when I was younger and wow ,,this is something ...
  • May 30, 2008
    Remarkably good, though dated, techno-thriller by the late, great Donald Cammell. Essentially a two-character piece with some surprisingly decent special effects for the time (though not without its embarrassingly bad ones as well). Julie Christie gives a dynamic performance.
  • May 14, 2008
    That's the dumbest plot I've seen in a long time.
  • May 10, 2008
    oh god this movie sucked.

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