The age of cyberpunk films

By JakeWilliams

  • The terminal man

    The terminal man is a film directed by Mike Hodges about a computer scientist inserting a microcomputer into his brain. Ericson (2010) states that "The resulting electrochemical ping pong game in Harry Benson's head scrambles his personality, making him more murderously dangerous than ever" molding man with machine gone wrong is a new aspect of cyberspace.

  • Robocop

    Robocop is a film that was realised in 1987 about the future in Detroit about a man that had been murdered and had been reborn in a new robot shell. Immanuel A. states that “Detroit - in the future - is crime-ridden, and run by a massive company.” evidence that this could be considered to be the reason of why this movie is cyberpunk.

  • Cyborg

    Cyborg is a movie directed by Albert Pyun set in the future world where a plague is over taking the world leaving a few inhabitants on earth. The movie is considered to be cyberpunk because the movie is set in a post-apocalyptic future with, surprisingly, a new age cyborg is here to save the day and help save planet earth from the deadly plague.

  • FreeJack

    FreeJack was a movie released in 1992 about a racer that was introduced to time travel by people from the future of 2009 to sell his healthy body parts to a large corporation.

  • iRobot

    iRobot is a movie that was released in 2004 about robots that are created to help humans but are now live to destroy them. This movie could be considered cyberpunk because humans once depended on these robots but now the robots are trying to destroy humanity.