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Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Richard Stanley's (Color Out of Space and partially The Island of Dr. Moreau) western-influenced post-apocalyptic cyberpunk flick is a genre classic. Plain and simple.
This is what you want. This is what you get.
it's entertaining, as a flawed B-movie. it has cameos by "the Godfather of Punk" Iggy Pop, Carl McCoy from the goth band Fields of Nephilim, and Lemmy from Motorhead. the soundtrack is unexpectedly solid, including songs by Ministry and (iirc) Public Image Ltd.
If you speak Italian, the Italian dub is available free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAAtCMtl0dA
This is my favourite Christmas movie.
My friends and I watched this so many times when it came out on video.
Basically a cyberpunk themed Terminator knock-off. Not really bad but a little too cliché - at least from a snobbish 2025 point-of-view. At its' time it most likely was state-of-the-art and compared to the idiotic plots and Reichspropaganda-attitude of recent SF refreshingly alternative and fucked-up. There's a cameo with Motörhead's Lemmy as a taxi driver somewhere in it, btw.
Seen it a couple of times, and somehow it doesn't quite work for me (can't remember why now).
4-5 years ago, I did watch & enjoy Stanley's Dust Devil.
I recommend watching Dust Devil as well, I find it a much better movie. And Shadowland is a thought provoking documentary about the director, who does not seem like a very nice person to put it lightly
I saw this in the theater and hated it. But I've since rewatched it and my opinion has softened somewhat.