EP52 - Hardware (1990)

All right, so let's get into the little background.

This is what we do.

We get into the background.

Rolling Stone top one hundred and fifty cyberpunk...

I mean, sorry, science fiction movies of all time.

Hardware, not rated.

That's a mistake, okay? Um, so anyway, so let's do some of the back- the background stuff.

Uh, the Nomad who unearths the Mark XIII robot is played by Carl McCoy, lead singer of the goth rock band Fields of the Nephilim, for whom Richard Stanley had previously directed two music videos and designed an album cover.

According to him, McCoy's character in Hardware is basically the same as it was in a Nephilim work.

The character, then titled Preacher Man, had a prosthetic hand, yellow contact lenses, and wore an old black coat with a cowboy hat.

The band that Jill watches on TV while she makes a sculpture is Gwar, though the music is Ministry's Stigmata.

Don't even get me into Ministry.

Ministry's the fucking best, okay? In the original theatrical release, the 2000 AD magazine story, short story, Shock was not given a based on credit, as the story of the film was based on the short story.

On the tw- 2009 DVD release, Shock was credited after the end of the end credits acknowledged the original story that inspired the film.

For his appearance as the cabbie, Lemmy was equipped with a bottle of scotch and a genuine Magnum revolver.

Only Lemmy, man.

The guy was...

He was an original.

Broke the mold with him.

He emptied the bottle and drew the gun out from his shoulder holster.

It s- it slipped his hand and sank to the river.

Divers were sent to recover it, but they were unsuccessful.

The film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA in America because of its graphic scenes of extreme violence.

Significant cuts had to be made in these scenes in order to secure an R rating.

I kind of wish that, that, that there's a Stanley cut out there.