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Released
1993 · FILM

Ghost in the Machine

Plug in to your worst nightmare

Directed by
Runtime
95 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

Following a fatal accident, Karl—known as The Address Book Killer—finds his soul trapped within the electrical grid and begins targeting Terry and her son, using household technology as lethal weapons.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Janice HamptonShot by Phil MeheuxScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by James H Spencer

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.1M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$5.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.9M 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.2M63% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,031 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Killer im Systemde
  • Killer Machineit

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