The Terminal Man

1974
PG
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

2.6K

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Hoping to cure his blackout seizures which turn him temporarily extremely violent, a computer scientist agrees to an experimental brain computer chip implant surgery.Hoping to cure his blackout seizures which turn him temporarily extremely violent, a computer scientist agrees to an experimental brain computer chip implant surgery.Hoping to cure his blackout seizures which turn him temporarily extremely violent, a computer scientist agrees to an experimental brain computer chip implant surgery.

Director
- Mike Hodges
Writers
- Michael Crichton
- Mike Hodges
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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

2.6K

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Director
- Mike Hodges
Writers
- Michael Crichton
- Mike Hodges
Stars

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Trivia
Crichton was fired from writing the screenplay due to the fact that his script did not follow the novel (which he had written) closely enough.

Goofs
At the cemetery, the usual mechanism for lowering the coffin into the grave is missing. There aren't even any straps in place to lower it manually.

Quotes
Benson: [mumbles]
Dr. John Ellis: [operating on Benson] What was that?
Dr. Robert Morris: Patient.
Dr. John Ellis: You all right, Mr. Benson?
Benson: [groggily] Fine... fine...
Dr. John Ellis: Any pain?
Benson: No...
Dr. John Ellis: Good. Just relax now.
Benson: You too doctor...

Alternate versions
On its release at 2003 Edinburgh Film Festival, there was a director's cut which Hodges had cut out the beginning with the doctor looking at photographs of Harry Benson.

Connections
Featured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993)

Soundtracks
Goldberg Variation No. 25
by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Played by Glenn Gould
Courtesy Columbia Records

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5/10

Mind Control

The computer scientist Harry Benson (George Segal) has a violent behavior caused by seizures and blackouts from his epilepsy. When he is invited to be submitted to an experimental surgery to implant electrodes in his brain by a renowned team of doctors, he accepts the invitation despite the opposition of the psychiatrist Dr. Janet Ross (Joan Hackett). The electrodes would detect the seizure before it happens and then stop it, and the surgery is a success. The doctors induce seizures to Benson monitored by computers to test the effects of the healing, but Benson flees from the hospital with his friend Angela Black (Jill Clayburgh). Now the doctors and the police run against time of the next seizures that are turning Benson's violence to next level of killing.

"The Terminal Man" is a boring 1974 sci-fi film with the story of the mind control by computers of a violent man. The plot is developed in a very slow pace and Benson's surgery is absolutely tiresome. Michael Crichton's novel is not good and this movie is dated. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "O Homem Terminal" ("The Terminal Man")