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Marco Castellini
•Planet Earth, in a near future: a few humans are the only survivors of atomic wars and pollution. A boy recovers pieces of a robot and decides to give it as a gift to his girlfriend. The girl partially reassembles it to make a sculpture, but in doing so, she reactivates it. The problem is that the robot was programmed to eliminate any human being that came within its reach, and so it begins a fight with the two protagonists… Winner of the 1991 Avoriaz Festival and based on a comic of the same name, this "Hardware" is a decent enough fantasy-horror that is rather "overrated", directed by Richard Stanley ("Démoniaque"). Good photography and a suggestive futuristic setting are the only original aspects of this yet another science fiction film based on the conflict between machines and man.
