Demon Seed (BD)

Demon Seed (BD)Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize. In "one of her finest, most vulnerable performances" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic), Julie Christie plays Susan in this taut techno thriller based on the

her terror-stricken grandfather (Nigel de Brulier) and a homicidal maniac (Charles A

with layers of information covering origins

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hiring gunslingers for attacks on ranchers

Emmet Walsh and others) detect a pattern in the victims' deaths and ultimately arrest Bundy - who escapes twice

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Clint Eastwood runs The Gauntlet into an explosive movie embodying its title with a vengeance

after Michael graduates

whose Nancy is "brainy

Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne lead the fight to free humankind in the see-and-see-again cyberthriller written and directed by the Wachowskis

bronco busters and proud Indians all thundering across the screen in a hoopla-and-ballyhoo-filled re-creation of what was once the pinnacle of American showmanship

Filmmaker Bruce Ricker couldn't believe his luck