I enjoyed watching Hardware on Hulu, a 1990 post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk movie directed by Richard Stanley. The story is essentially that a scavenger in a dystopian city picks up metal parts for his sculptor girlfriend to create art with, and a metal head that he finds is a military grade piece that, when fused with the robot body, becomes a sentient killing machine. It’s a little reminiscent of The Terminator, but also feels inspired by Japanese cyberpunk films that have a messy low-budget look to them.
The story was a little thin, and I lost interest when it became more of a killer robot story, as I skipped ahead sometimes, but I really liked the atmosphere and grittiness, and the orange color schemes to illustrate the grim future. It had some great music in it, like Public Image, Limited, and I could definitely tell the director came from music videos, I could see him doing videos for industrial and post-punk bands, given his obvious interest in cyberpunk genres.
So this was a pretty cool movie to watch, and it looked great with fantastic special effects for just under a million dollars in 1990.
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