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Original release / air date: 14 December 1984
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Production company / studio: Tri-Star Pictures; Delphi III Productions
Distributor / platform: Tri-Star Pictures
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot

Overview

Police sergeant Jack Ramsay works in a specialist unit that handles malfunctioning robots and uncovers a criminal scheme involving chips that override robot safety programming.

ASFR Content

Robots are ordinary domestic, industrial and agricultural machines in the film's near future. A household robot becomes homicidal after receiving an illegal control chip; Ramsay later repairs his own damaged domestic robot, Lois. The climax also features spider-like assassin robots programmed to identify and kill a target.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

A domestic robot turns homicidal

Ramsay enters a suburban house where a household robot has killed members of the family after an illegal chip overrides its normal safety programming.

Scene 2
Major

Ramsay repairs Lois after Luther's attack

Ramsay returns home to find his domestic robot badly damaged, repairs her, and then discovers that his son has been kidnapped.

Character(s): Lois
Features:
Scene 3
Major

The spider robots activate around the elevator

Luther places small assassin machines at the construction site to kill whoever exits the elevator after the exchange.

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