The Terminator

‘Blue flashes and newspapers blown about by a sudden gust of wind in some back street: two people from the future find themselves in Los Angeles in 1984. Except that one of them isn’t actually human at all, but a killer cyborg with a very specific goal: the elimination of Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will declare war on the machines in the future. Or perhaps not?’ (gartenbaukino.at, Nov 2024)

“The original Terminator, which cemented James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd’s place in history, was a sleek, high-octane B-movie, dark and greasy like the hair of an ’80s garage band. (…) Everything is style, colour, movement. Glowing cyborg eyes in the dark, gleaming metal, reflections on the tarmac, disco lights – back then, it was called ‘neon noir’. But what’s truly brilliant is how the film simultaneously pushes the cinema’s technical capabilities to the limit whilst rationally undermining the technification of society: The machine ends up back where it came from, in a factory’s metal press, ‘terminated’ at the touch of a button by Linda Hamilton, who at the time was still very much an everyday heroine.” (Sabine Horst, epd Film, July 2026)