Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Practical Effects
Gloriously grotesque stop-motion and metalwork
Direction
Stanley's hallucinatory visual overload
Score
Ear-destroying industrial soundscape
Director
Richard Stanley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Stanley made this for £960,000 after his short 'Incidents in an Expanding Universe' caught investors' attention.
The Mark 13 design was allegedly ripped from a 2000 AD comic; Stanley settled out of court. Ironically, the film itself became a stolen-VHS cult classic.
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