FUZZY MEMORY: HARDWARE

Anyone remember the 1990 sci-fi movie HARDWARE? I was 15 and still riding the high from Terminator & The Road Warrior (which I had been exposed to 5-or-so years earlier), and was devouring anything that dealt with post-apocalyptic futures and robots killing people. So logically, I went and saw this in the theater.

I vaguely remember it, but I do remember not liking it at the time, primarily because it wasn't action packed and was very disturbing for my 15 year old brain.... yet it stuck with me throughout the years (now nearly 20years later). From what I remember, it was a low-budget, cyberpunk, dystopian movie that was scary, boring, creepy, interesting, & disturbing.

I can slightly recall what-was-what: In a war torn wasteland, hero-dude with cybernetic hand (Dylan McDermott) scavenges around some scrap and finds a cool looking beat up old robot head that looks like a skull. He takes it along with him to his girlfriend's apartment and gives it to her for her found-object sculptures. She paints the American flag on it and sets it aside and they go take a shower that's uncomfortable to watch for a couple reasons. They have weird neighbors. The robot head is actually an old military robot killing machine and reactivates. Killing and bloodshed ensue. I think it was like a low-budget mix of Terminator, Road Warrior, Warlock 5 (comic), Brazil, Alien & Blade Runner... oh, and it had a cool soundtrack.

It looks like HARDWARE is not available on dvd, which sucks because I really want to see it again. But if you're in the UK and/or have an all-region dvd player, you're in luck as its set to be released this month!.... supposedly.

Hey, I found the trailer!