Sci-fi chiller starring Julie Christie. With her husband having left their hi-tech home, beautiful Susan Harris finds herself terrorised by Proteus, the master computer, which not only has a mind, but a will of its own. Imprisoned by Proteus, Susan is blackmailed into conceiving the computer's "brain-child".
This literate sci-fi take on Rosemary's Baby, based on a Dean R Koontz novel, is as weird, provocative and compelling as you would expect from Donald Cammell, the co-director of Performance. Julie Christie is dazzling as the victim of a power-crazed computer that decides it's greater than its genius creator and malfunctions to conceive a child, by terrifying means. This claustrophobic cautionary tale shrouds its incredible special effects in a powerful hallucinatory atmosphere, with Robert Vaughn providing the creepily compelling voice of the machine.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Dr Susan Harris | Julie Christie |
| Dr Alex Harris | Fritz Weaver |
| Walter Gabler | Gerrit Graham |
| Petrosian | Berry Kroeger |
| Dr Soon Yen | Lisa Lu |
| Cameron | Larry J Blake |
| Royce | John O'Leary |
| Mokri | Alfred Dennis |
| Warner | Davis Roberts |
| Mrs Talbert | Patricia Wilson |
| Night operator | E Hampton Beagle |
| Amy | Dana Laurita |
| Proteus IV | Robert Vaughn (1) |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Donald Cammell |
