Karl works as a computer technician at a retail store, but when his not fiddling around with electrical devices. His known as the "Address Book Killer". Terry and her son Josh enter the store to purchase some software and while using her address book for a particular exercise on the computer she leaves it accidentally behind. On his way to her house, he gets into a car crash and is sent to hospital for a cat scan. The electrical storm hits the hospital, and causes his soul to enter the computer networks and cyberspace, where he continues his killing spree of those names in Terry's address book with use of electrical appliances.
They don't come across any dumber and juvenile than this, but Rachael Talalay's formulaic paranoid high-tech horror film "Ghost in the Machine" is amusingly watchable when its being unpleasant or either focusing on flashy computer-generated visual effects that have extremely dated by now. The film "The Lawnmower Man " did a better job with the effects a year earlier, but the computer animation here is fun enough. When its not doing this, it becomes nothing but tediously clichéd with pockets of dead air filled by obliviously lightweight characters and witless remarks. The implausible premise is structured in a pedestrian manner and is rather paper thin in it social mentality and wishy washy intentions. The script is even more absurd and banally underwritten. How they come to the connection of the murders and the way to stop it is pretty much eye rolling stuff. Embarrassingly everyone on board are playing it with a straight face, despite how ludicrous and contrived it just happens to be. The creatively elaborate thrills and jolts are actually well organised and can rally up some tension, but seem to fall more so on the funny side. Phil Meheux's fluidly leeway photography handily frames each scene, but the music score is as generic as it comes. Performances are somewhat uninspired, but Chris Mulkey and Karen Allen are likable enough to keep you watching. Wil Horneff is increasingly aggravating as the brat kid Josh. Ted Marcoux as Karl chews it up every chance he gets and Shevonne Durkin makes for some nice eye candy.
A pretty straight-forward concept, which doesn't going anywhere exciting with it, despite the many possibilities. It's quite a forgettable and apathy foray.
They don't come across any dumber and juvenile than this, but Rachael Talalay's formulaic paranoid high-tech horror film "Ghost in the Machine" is amusingly watchable when its being unpleasant or either focusing on flashy computer-generated visual effects that have extremely dated by now. The film "The Lawnmower Man " did a better job with the effects a year earlier, but the computer animation here is fun enough. When its not doing this, it becomes nothing but tediously clichéd with pockets of dead air filled by obliviously lightweight characters and witless remarks. The implausible premise is structured in a pedestrian manner and is rather paper thin in it social mentality and wishy washy intentions. The script is even more absurd and banally underwritten. How they come to the connection of the murders and the way to stop it is pretty much eye rolling stuff. Embarrassingly everyone on board are playing it with a straight face, despite how ludicrous and contrived it just happens to be. The creatively elaborate thrills and jolts are actually well organised and can rally up some tension, but seem to fall more so on the funny side. Phil Meheux's fluidly leeway photography handily frames each scene, but the music score is as generic as it comes. Performances are somewhat uninspired, but Chris Mulkey and Karen Allen are likable enough to keep you watching. Wil Horneff is increasingly aggravating as the brat kid Josh. Ted Marcoux as Karl chews it up every chance he gets and Shevonne Durkin makes for some nice eye candy.
A pretty straight-forward concept, which doesn't going anywhere exciting with it, despite the many possibilities. It's quite a forgettable and apathy foray.