FilmPGSci-Fi Horror Psychological Body Horror

The Terminal Man1974

Name: The Terminal Man
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological, Body Horror
Released: 1974-06-19
Rating: 5.6

“Harry Benson is a brilliant computer scientist. For three minutes a day, he is violently homicidal.”

Directed by Mike Hodges

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.6Rotten Tomatoes 50%Metacritic 41TMDB 5.4

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Year

1974

Runtime

107 min

Box Office

Domestic

$224,542

The premise

As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.

Horror Vault's take

When a computer scientist's debilitating seizures lead his doctors to implant an experimental microcomputer directly into his brain, the cutting-edge procedure opens a door that may prove impossible to close. What begins as a hopeful medical breakthrough slowly reveals its terrifying limitations as the boundary between man and machine grows dangerously thin. George Segal delivers a haunting performance as a man slipping beyond his own reach, trapped inside a body no longer entirely his own. This cold, methodical thriller uses the sterile world of 1970s science to conjure a deeply human kind of horror.

Content: Violence, Surgical Imagery, Loss Of Bodily Autonomy