Comments on: Horror/sc-fi, a computer governing a skyscraper begins to kill the people trapped inside. https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:16:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: VHS_Lives https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1405 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:16:39 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1405 glad you figured it out. killer solve. at least we have a massive list of evil technology movies compiled if something close comes up again…

]]> By: farcry https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1404 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:11:20 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1404 VHS_Lives:
Reading your comment got me interested in searching for this movie again. I was searching for about 2 hours when I’ve found something in this list:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie&genres=thriller&keywords=artificial-intelligence&sort=release_date,desc&start=51&ref_=adv_nxt

Entry 90 for The Tower (1985) says:
“An office building’s security system goes after the employees to supply its energy.”

I was like, maaan, this looks interesting, but haven’t we ruled this out already? We did.
Luckily the whole movie is available on YouTube so I could check it and it’s a 100 % match. Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSf9Bmb7zJE&t=3698s

This movie was proposed to the OP in 2014 but he said nothing to it (he’s around now though), so I included it in the list of failed candidates.
Even though you didn’t solve it directly, if it wasn’t for your last comment, I wouldn’t have touched it again.
So thank you for staying interested and helping solving this one too!

]]> By: VHS_Lives https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1403 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:34:16 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1403 This one has me beating my head against a wall…so difficult. I don’t think it is “dream house” “this house is possessed” or “homewrecker”, the tv movies i spoke od, while automated killer houses, it is a love interest thing for the machines. there were 2 x-files episodes like this, but this appears longer than what they could sustain. pulse is an option, from the 80s, but doubtable. i keep angling toward energy and electricity, as it seems a connecting theme, but could the ooze have been, or made, a monster craving electricity to grow? Maybe it killed only to survive?
“not of this world” tv movie from 1991 would maybe go that route. i am just trying to check off all the possibilities…. my quote restrictive searches aren’t going well, so i am using imdb plot keyword and restricting that way (automated, controlled, tech, security system, computer, a.i. / artificial intelligence) are my terms that I assume would have to explain this flick….

]]> By: farcry https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1397 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:27:31 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1397 Stonebroke:
The 13th Floor (1988) is available on YouTube so I skimmed through it and it carries some resemblance to my movie but it can’t be it.
Thanks for the tip though!

VHS_Lives:
Dial: Help (1988). This does have the killer-phone idea but the rest is different from what I’m looking for.
Murder by Phone (1982): This can’t be it either.
In the movie I’m looking for the act of killing via the receiver was an act of predation, the computer “consumed” the victim to sustain itself.
Thanks though, I find it promising that you are looking into it. Not to disparage other people’s efforts but you’ve cracked some tough nuts for me in the past.

]]> By: VHS_Lives https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1396 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:43:20 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1396 Dial:Help is italian about a killer energy in phone line thing stalking her in different places.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0095952/reviews?ref_=m_tt_urv

Murder by Phone (1982) seems less possible, specifically being all phone kills. There are a couple tv movies of security systems going haywire and killing, but i have to find the names again

]]> By: Stonebroke https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1390 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:25:15 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1390 Just to throw another killer elevator/building horror movie in the mix:

The 13th Floor

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094591/

]]> By: farcry https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1389 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:54:19 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1389 I summed it all up here, so there’s no more info at the moment. The OP once called it a category “D” Swedish movie but I don’t know how serious that remark was. I’ve found nothing using the Swedish angle.
I have looked into these movies before, except Mangler 2 but they don’t seem to have the energy draining phone.
I think it’s not necessarily a skyscraper, it could be an office building or an apartment complex but it has to be big enough to warrant an elevator.
Thanks for looking into it!

]]> By: VHS_Lives https://old.filmfind.me/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#/comment/1388 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:48:57 +0000 https://filmfind.co/q/horror-sc-fi-a-computer-governing-a-skyscraper-begins-to-kill-the-people-trapped-inside/#comment-1388 does the other question have any other details? i have found a couple ones not on this list, but no skyscrapers yet…. this seems like ghost in the machine or lawnmower man style flick from 80s and 90s. doubt those 2 are them, as “mangler 2” probably not either. there was “urge to kill” from 1989.

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