Saturn 3 (SF-1980)

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British Science Fiction 1980 (when they could actually produce watchable films!)

Stars Harvey Keitel, Farah Fawcett and Jirk Douglas.

A sort of re-make twist of the 1956 classic sci-fi movie, Forbidden Planet which had Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen.

A base on a frozen moon of Saturn has the ideal conditions for scientists to experiment on solving future Earth's problem of food shortage. Scientist Adam (Kirk Douglas) is assisted by the much younger Alex (the late Farrah Fawcett), living an idyllic existence away from the problems of an over-crowded Earth. Another scientist, Benson (Harvey Keitel), brings an experimental robot from Earth in order to speed up the research. What the inhabitants of Saturn 3 don't know is that he's an imposter, a psychopath who plans to psychically link himself to the huge robot...

The idea of untrustworthy robots is even older than 'Maria' from Metropolis (1927). Even the popular Robby the Robot went renegade in The Invisible Boy (1957), despite abiding by Asimov's law of robotics for his debut in Forbidden Planet (1956). In the cinema however, Asimov's laws are often reprogrammed with movie logic, ie designed to inflict pain in some way, shape or form, after all, he's basically a HAL9000 with a libido.

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