Death Machine (1994)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Stephen Norrington

Writer:

Stephen Norrington (writer)

Release Date:

26 May 1995 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

It feeds on your fear

Plot:

Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine...

Plot Keywords:

Killer Robot | Psycho | Cyberpunk | Cyborg | Robot

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Brad Dourif	...	Jack Dante
Ely Pouget	...	Hayden Cale
William Hootkins	...	John Carpenter
John Sharian	...	Sam Raimi
Martin McDougall	...	Yutani
Andreas Wisniewski	...	Weyland
Richard Brake	...	Scott Ridley
Alex Brooks	...	Sheriff Dickson
Stuart St. Paul	...	Glitching Hardman
Jackie Sawiris	...	Waitress
Annemarie Zola	...	Screaming Demonstrator (as Anne Marie Zola)
Julie Cox	...	Screaming Demonstrator
Kathleen Tessaro	...	Reporter
Ronald Fernee	...	Reporter
Lesley Lyon	...	Reporter

MPAA:

Rated R for sci-fi terror and violence, language and brief sexuality.

Runtime:

USA:120 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Germany:18 | Spain:13 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Fugitive Features

Trivia:

"Scott Ridley" is named after Ridley Scott, and "John Carpenter" is named after John Carpenter. "Weyland" and "Yutani" are named after the company in Alien (1979), directed by Scott.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Cale talks to reporters outside the building she says, "deep emotional reaction," but when it's replayed on a TV screen later she says, "deep emotional response."

Quotes:

Jack Dante: With weapons like mine, and authorization like yours, we can do some serious damage.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in La magra (1998) (V)

Death by Metal !!!

Set in the future, this film turns out a top performance from Brad Dourif, who plays a psycho-pathic weapons designer whose latest creation, the DEATH MACHINE is put into action when Brad resents a colleagues promotion, and engages maximum overdrive in the schizo department.

The film maintains a good pace throughout. Although borrowing from the style used in ALIEN, (that of dark corridors and chase sequences.) it moves on from this with the introduction of a comical element provided by three of the worlds most badly prepared eco-type warriors, who pick the wrong time to expose the corporation for what it is. Needless to say, all are ruthlessly hunted to extinction by a first class front-line moral destroyer.

The storyline, the tense combination of will they survive? and the fluid motion of the robot especially, is what makes the film appealing, with a very strong performance from Brad Dourif thrown in for good measure.

This is definately a guys movie, even though the heroine comes no-where near to romping around a commercial cargo vessel in panties and a tight T-shirt!