The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
Practical Effects
Gloriously fake computer interfaces that beep for every keystroke.
Acting
Yaphet Kotto somehow maintaining dignity amid this nonsense.
Director
John Kincade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Terminal Entry perfectly captures 1988's hysteria about hackers as existential threats—months before the Morris Worm made it 'real.' The film's fictional 'Terror Net' accidentally predicted how actual extremist groups would later use online coordination.
Director John Kincade allegedly made this after being fired from a larger production, shooting the entire film in 18 days at a YMCA camp in Georgia. Yaphet Kotto reportedly took the role to pay for a divorce settlement.
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