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Released
1990 · FILM

Hardware

When a sculptor receives a mysterious robotic head as a gift, she must stop the self‑repairing killing machine that rebuilds itself from household junk before it turns her home into a deadly rampage.

“You can't stop progress.”

Directed by
Richard Stanley
Written by
Steve Macmanus, Kevin O Neill
Runtime
93 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine equipped with artificial intelligence and the ability to repair and recharge itself using any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress, delivered as a bizarre Christmas gift from her boyfriend. Once inside its new environment, the cyborg reconstructs the rest of its body using various household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Derek TriggShot by Steven ChiversScored by Simon BoswellDesigned by Joseph Bennett

Box Office

1990 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.8× 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

$5.7M

Budget$1.5M
Worldwide gross$5.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.4M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.0M — 53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 695 theaters

Also known as

  • M.A.R.K. 13 - Hardwarede

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