Rating: R
Genre:
Science Fiction
Release Date: 01/17/2006
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS2.0
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Anchor Bay
A serial killer is transformed into a computer virus out to destroy more than your hard drive in this
sci-fi thriller.
Terry Munroe (
Karen Allen), a single mother, is looking for a gift for her boss and visits a computer store, where one of the employees demonstrates a hand-held scanner than can transfer the information from her address book into a software program that will store the information on her PC. Unknown to
Terry, one of the employees of the store is
Karl Hochman (
Ted Marcoux), known in the press as "The Address Book Killer," who likes to steal other people's address books and murder all the people listed within, including the book's owner.
Terry accidentally leaves her book behind at the store, and
Karl lifts it, but as he drives to her house to strike her off the list first, he is injured in a serious accident and taken to a hospital. While
Karl is being given a CAT scan, lightning strikes the building and
Karl is transformed into a series of electrical impulses that can travel as computer code from one system to another, or as current through power lines. Soon
Terry begins to suspect something is wrong as her friends succumb to attacks by microwave ovens, hot-air blowers, and other household objects.
Terry and her computer-savvy son,
Josh (
Wil Horneff), realize that they're at risk after
Karl appears in
Josh's virtual reality games; it's up to
Bram Walker (
Chris Mulkey), a brilliant hacker-turned-computer maintenance technician, to isolate and destroy the
Karl virus before it can kill again. The film's soundtrack features such
hip-hop stars as
D-Nice and
Too Short,
Schoolly-D,
Grandmaster Slice, and
Kool Moe Dee.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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A great Sci-Fi Thriller
I liked this film. It isn't exactly the greatest horror film ever made, but it is nonetheless a great sci-fi thriller with enough suspense to keep one hooked. The whole idea of a serial killer that gets his victims where they are most vunerable through their computers, household and other electrical items is pure genius, yet the idea of such a thing ever really happening in real life is haunting in itself.
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