 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies before we get started. What are you drinking today? We're drinking superstition. It is a smoked witch wheat ale Nice today. We're gonna be bringing to you 1990s hardware. He doesn't have a huge Filmography, but he did direct another underground cult classic hit called dust devil stars Dylan McDermott Mostly known for being in the TV show the practice also American horror story co-starring with him is Stacey Travis and she was in phantasm 2 which we covered and there's a bunch of cameos Iggy Pop makes a voice cameo and Lemmy from Motorhead the movie starts out. We see this Drifter and he's walking through this Baron Desolate desert right his world that's just looks so shitty and he's all covered up There's this robot hand that's kind of sticking out of the sand. He gathers it up He makes his way to a junk dealer Alvi is his name. He's this little midget guy But it's not so little either. He's not really gonna beach ballish Yeah, kind of he's around two guys are sitting there with him as well Baxter and shades and Alvi kind of goes into the back and this Drifter guy comes in with all this stuff Baxter makes this Drifter guy an offer flip it for more money So Alvi ends up buying some parts from him Baxter ends up hanging on to the rest as a narration We hear Iggy pop radio DJ. There's a war going on. There's overpopulation Pollution yeah, they make their way to this water taxi who's driving it no less lemmy You guys want to listen to something the ace is Oh Music as they walk through the city you see all the the homeless vagrants and they're they're sort of begging and Starving and everybody's wearing rags and they end up making their way to Baxter's girlfriend's place Jill She makes her way in life by making art out of scrap metal and junk and Baxter has a present for and it's robotic parts Specifically that head Yeah, they haven't seen each other for a long time and we kind of learned that Baxter is like a soldier They're kind of bickering and sort of the politics of the day kind of creeps in no better way to settle your little argument with a night of hot sex Especially when you're being spied on by some weird pervert you kind of see through his camera view Oh, yeah, take it hard. Take it deep put some these sick rubber gloves And Jill wakes up leaves Baxter sleeping and she gets inspired I guess and she starts building a sculpture out of the robot that Baxter brought to her in the meantime Alvi the junk dealer has done some research on the items he bought off of Baxter and finds out that this robot is Actually called the mark 13 like a combat droid he calls Baxter He doesn't really clue Baxter in as to exactly what's happening. He just says get here right away So Baxter leaves Alvi ends up getting killed by the hand Jill is left by herself in the apartment And this robot starts rebuilding itself Attacks her just kind of moves out of the way and it like destroys the bed There's feathers and and then it kind of hides in the dark the pervert guy from across the street Decides to finally make his move introduces himself and he's super creepy. Of course. He's wearing a Hawaiian shirt Sandals and he's got all these sorrows and everything and she even warned him She's like there's something loose in here. It's kind of looking around that song to that And it's a great scene because you know like this fucking guy's gonna get yeah, you know, the thing is loose. Yeah, still on the loose Pulls open the blinds and then yeah, she's like no, don't do that through the blinds You can see the eyes of the robot and it just goes right through the glass and grabs his face and puts his fingers right there His eyes suck it and drills through Right through him and just destroys this guy They just rips him to shreds in the meantime Baxter is called his buddy shades get to Jill's place because she's in trouble Shades have just done all his drugs and he's just way to waste it to be any help Yeah, okay, I'll go help her and he goes to put on his pants and just passes out So now the robot is loose in the house still on the loose Jill's by herself Shades is slowly on the way Baxter's is on the way to but he's way out in the desert See what's gonna happen with Jill mark 13 Baxter and shades keep watching one of the things I think that sets this movie apart from a lot of Futuristic movies are the sets, right? Oh, yeah, you get you know a lot of the Desolation that the feeling of desolation you a lot of the dialogue helps with that too, right? Yeah, it actually puts you there. This movie does a great job Yeah, just picking you up and plonking you right in this world You don't know what year it is You just know it's somewhere in the future where life has gotten really really shitty the neat camera tricks like Whatever filtering they use to always make the sky look all orange and polluted You'd feel the heat in the desert even though you're sitting in your living room and the lighting too like lots of vivid blues And reds and greens like it's kind of almost reminds me like of Italian horror very few main characters for the movie Right you managed to get a very good point across with a minimal amount of characters Yeah, which is which is what I like fewer the characters the easier you can relate to them The less the movie can get bogged down too, right? Yeah, there's no throwaway characters at all No, the movie is very serious to like a size from you know the perfect guy is pretty jokey But overall it's a serious tone. Yeah with serious subject matter, you know pollution and overpopulation sterilization and all this kind of heavy stuff AI artificial intelligence exactly and it's all relevant to today even still You know yeah more so today than it was back in 1990. No CGI. It's the old way of movie making, right? You just see his head a lot of the times. Yeah, but you hear it Yeah, you see the hand moving and yeah, there's the odd full shot of the full robot where there's some stop motion That's all you need. Yeah, you can make up the rest in your mind. Yeah, perfect the kills for this movie There's not many. There's not a huge body count, but they're really good. It makes it worth it Yeah, like the effects look great and they're all really gruesome. There's a great scene of this guy is cut in half by some door The door is meant to protect her right from the outside, but it's keeping her in with this Deadly thing. That's kind of neat and it's also kills people who are supposed to be coming to save her The character Jill is a shit brick house She takes a hell of a beating in this movie and keeps ticking By the end she is a bloody mess gone through Helen back and gone through stories of the building Yeah back, you know through all that that Chinese banquet right through like Into this other apartment to like wrecks their dinner The men in this movie are pretty much useless. Yeah, they don't really they can't do anything Getting killed off so she's like even though she has help. She's on her own Oh, yeah, the music in this movie is super cool You know it starts off in the desert and it's kind of steel pedal steel guitar But then there's kind of some synthesizer stuff happening works perfect with like this kind of like old-looking desert, you know country Type music, but then the futuristic end of it with the synthesizer music and all the sounds that happen in this movie Like yeah super abrasive in your face loud and obnoxious Lot of drilling Purposely to kind of reflect this machine that's attacking you and kind of really kind of gets you on edge just from this constant loud Noises that you're hearing. Yeah, and there's some music by bands to like well motorhead Yeah, she's watching a TV and it's showing guar playing But it's not goers music. It's ministry. It's playing. So it's kind of weird how they did that I'm not sure why and it's cool how this movie it relates to like mark 13 in the Bible, right? Yeah, no flesh should be spared and that's the name of the fucking robot. Yeah, that's cool The movie is actually has some controversy behind it They were sued because it blatantly plagiarizes a short story called shock which appeared in like a Judge-dread comic book, you know, it's very stylistic So if you want like a kind of a visual stylistic Feast that kind of barred all your senses. Yeah, and you like science fiction in cyberpunk It's kind of like a cyberpunk slasher right with a with a sort of a real twist on it Right the real idea behind it. Yeah, the reality of that this can be our future. Mm-hmm. It's pretty cool So yeah, if you want a really unique Experience for a horror movie, please check out hardware mark 13 and keep drinking