Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine (1993)

Plug in to your worst nightmare

After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

Date of release
1993-12-20
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (84)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
Director
Rachel Talalay

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Ghost in the Machine is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Rachel Talalay and released by 20th Century Fox about a deceased serial killer with artificial computer intelligence.

Production

In 1987, writers William Davies and William Osborne first got the idea for Ghost in the Machine when reading about a piece of computer software called Skeleton Key, which allowed users to invade other computer networks and retrieve all data within them without owners knowing anything about it, and crafted a premise wherein a serial killer was absorbed into a computer and now possessed those same abilities.

The film's special effects were provided by Video Image under the direction of special effects supervisor Richard Hollander. In order to create evolutionary images of the electronic serial killer's computerized environment, at the suggestion of director Rachel Talalay, Hollander and his group decided to digitally manipulate real-life data taken from MRI body scans. Ted Marcoux, who plays Killer Karl, was scanned at UCLA.

The film was shot over the course of 51 days in Los Angeles, which doubled for the film's Cleveland, Ohio setting.

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