Ghost in the Machine

Year: 1993

Director: Rachel Talalay

Written by: William Davies, William Osborne

Threat: Coherent Electric Entity

Weapon of Choice: Microwave

Based upon: Original

IMDb page: IMDb link

      Ghost in the Machine

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The tyranist's thoughts
The movie that this reminds me of the most is Lawnmower Man except that it is far less intelligent. This is what would have happened if they had gone for the pure horror aspect. And they didn't actually know anything about computers and electronics. In spite of the poor plot and lack of ingenuity, I rather enjoyed this movie in just the good old fashioned butt-kicking horror sense. Karen Allen does a good job as the technologically clueless mother and the rest of the cast fills in nicely. If you like somewhat atypical slasher movies and can suspend your disbelief for and hour and a half then this is probably going to be enjoyable to you. Otherwise, you will hate yourself and me for ever having seen it.

Total Skulls: 8

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie skull The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity skull
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door skull
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skull
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead skull
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?