Time to relax and watch some computer horror films

It’s the last blog of the month and that means it’s almost time for Halloween 🎃. Sit back and ‘relax’ / or scare yourself with some computer horror films…

The Terminator

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year. It’s been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity’s future salvation.

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn

Released: 1984

Terminator Series

Spawning five additional films plus a TV series, Terminator is the ultimate computer future horror films.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick

Released 1991

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes and Kristanna Loken

Released: 2003

Terminator Salvation

In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machine, half-human and half machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attach on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?

Starring : Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin

Released: 2009

Terminator Genisys

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an expected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney

Terminator: Dark Fate

An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

Starring: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mackenzie Davis

Released: 2019

The Net

A computer programmers life turns into a nightmare as her personal online records are erased from existence and is given a new identity, one with a police record. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her. And races to restore her real life.

Starting: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller

Released: 1995

Transcendence

A scientist’s drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.

Starring: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy and Paul Bettany

Released: 2014

The Matrix

Hooked into the Matrix without even knowing it, an elaborate, omnipresent computer system designed to manipulate free will, reclusive hacker Thomas Anderson, aka Neo, is about to learn the truth.

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving

Released: 1999

Matrix Series

The story continues with two more films and a collection of animated stories.

The Matrix Reloaded

Freedom fighters, Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving

Released: 2003

The Animatrix

A collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix.

• Final Flight of the Osiris
• The Second Renaissance, Part 1
• The Second Renaissance, Part 2
• Kid’s Story
• Program
• World Record
• Beyond
• A Detective Story
• Matrixulated

Including the voice talents of: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and many others

Released: 2003

The Matrix Revolutions

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving

Released: 2003

I, Robot

In 2035, robots are everyday objects and are programmed to live alongside humans. A technophobic cop is called to investigate the apparent suicide of the scientist behind these robots. The detective suspects that the death might not be a suicide, but the result of one of the robots.

All robots are programmed by three laws including “they cannot harm a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”. He starts to wonder if a robot can in fact feel emotions, and possibly murder.

Starring: Will Smith, Alan Tudyk, Bridget Moynahan and Bruce Greenwood.

Released: 2004

Tron

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Starring: Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner

Released: 1982

TRON: Legacy

The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Bruce Boxleitner

Released: 2010

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