Richard Stanley’s HARDWARE is the unhinged, full tilt technodystopian curtain drop on the Atomic Age, less a film than the uniquely Hellish punk fever dream borne of BLADE RUNNER, JUDGE DREDD, MAD MAX, and THE TERMINATOR colliding at right angles to reality. A love letter to Generation X’s cultural holocaust of the Baby Boomers’ legacy as if penned by Roger Zelazny himself. With appearances by Iggy Pop, Lemmy, Carl McCoy (of Fields of the Nephilim), GWAR, and Ministry, and creature design by Chris Cunningham (of Aphex Twin and Bjork video fame), HARDWARE is the only killer robot film you need ever watch again. Get ready for an encounter with some seriously heavy metal with Stanley’s personal, uncut 35mm print.

Co-presented by The Chicago Film Society