I’d completely forgotten I had this account.
I mean, I remembered setting up some kind of blog account with the intention of using it, but then forgot what it was, where it was and then it joined all of the other debris littering my brain, left to be wriggled over by whatever earworm passes its way.
I might use it now I know it’s here.
Perhaps.
Today’s Overlooked VHS Video Gem is the cult classic sci-fi shocker Hardware, the debut feature for South African director Richard Stanley, and which stars Dylan McDermott, who would go on to co-star in hit Hollywood films like In The Line Of Fire and the Miracle On 34th Street remake. It is also notable for featuring the screaming voice of Iggy Pop as radio DJ “Angry Bob”, and cameo appearances from Motorhead frontman Lemmy and Fields Of The Nephilim frontman Carl McCoy.
Hardware was a film loosely based on a 2000 AD comic strip called “SHOK! Walter’s Robo Tale”, where the scattered pieces of a robot are found buried in the radioactive desert by a nomadic scavenger and are unwittingly bought by Dylan McDermott’s character Moses as a Christmas present gift for his artist girlfriend Jill, played by Stacey Travis.
However, this is no ordinary robot. This is the Mark-13 droid, an unstoppable killing machine which has been designed as a solution to this post-apocalyptic world’s overpopulation problem, and all hells breaks loose throughout the film in rather glorious bloody fashion.
Hardware was an impressive film for its time because it really set a marker down for a British-based sci-fi/horror production as a spate of fairly decent sci-fi and horror productions such as Death Machine, Beyond Bedlam and Split Second all came along after it. Hardware also did fairly well at the box office for a low-budget British production, and it also made some people sit up and take notice of Richard Stanley who would then impress once again with his second feature Dust Devil.
This will probably never work. These things never do. You sign up, post a few paragraphs of something you consider witty, check back in a couple of days later. Nobody has even looked at it, let alone responded, telling you how funny/deep/cute/pwned you are and you haven’t even been propositioned by a Br1t.ney with a pink tuba or offered teeth whitening services. What’s the point, eh? I dunno, I’m simply adding to the byteload. Here’s to difference.
