“Four punk lads making a sortie into an amusement park where they antagonise other customers and come upon a group of teenage girls. However, they are consistently thwarted by the apparition of four spectral youths (the ‘Knights Electric’) who ultimately squire the girls away. Told with a remarkable fluency and gusto.” BFI Newsletter, August 1981
Tag: futuristic
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Techno Police 21C
The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost control. The citizens are terrified… and no one can stop the madness. Even the Techno Police, a special anti-crime squad, find the situation hopeless until a wise cracking cop with an uncanny knack for out-guessing the criminals joins the force. When a powerful experiment tank is hijacked, the Techno Police and their newest recruit go to work. Equipped with an ultra-sonic car and crime-fighting Technoids, the rookie cop sets out on a death defying high-speed chase through the streets… trying to capture the crooks and trying to stay alive. But no one is aware of the awesome powers about to be unleashed.
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Appleseed
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
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Excalibur
After years of war, the King returns home and his son the Prince welcomes him, glad to see him safe and sound. The Prince is in love but the King disapproves their relationship.
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Robo Warriors
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior – a towering fighting machine.
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The 6th Day
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal – that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn’t understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
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Bicentennial Man
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family’s children. “Bicentennial Man” follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don’t have an ordinary robot.
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Dead or Alive: Final
In post-apocalyptic Yokohama, a hard-boiled cop and a mellowed out drifter hook up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap the cop’s son, the wheels are set in motion for an inevitable showdown.
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Ghosts of Mars
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.