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The police then receive anonymous reports of an armed robbery, a hostage situation, domestic violence, and a murder in progress, all at Terry's house. The police open fire on the home after mistaking an exploding pole transformer for gunfire. After realizing their mistake, they cease fire. Terry's
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when reading about a piece of computer software called Skeleton Key, which allowed users to invade other computer networks and retrieve all data within them without owners knowing anything about it, and crafted a premise wherein a serial killer was absorbed into a computer and now possessed those
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Karl Hochman, known as "The Address Book Killer" due to habitually stealing address books and choosing his victims from them, obtains Terry Munroe's address book as the store manager demonstrates a scanner to a customer. He copies a page of her address book into a computer. On a rainy night while
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Karl opens the scanned page from Terry's address book and begins to kill everyone listed on the page. Her boss, Frank Mallory, becomes the first victim when his microwave oven begins radiating the entire kitchen. Another friend, Elliot Miller, gets burned to death when a hand dryer turns into a
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The film's special effects were provided by Video Image under the direction of special effects supervisor Richard Hollander. In order to create evolutionary images of the electronic serial killer's computerized environment, at the suggestion of director
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The police do not believe the theory that Karl is on a killing spree after his death, but Josh realizes the order of the killings parallels a list of contacts from Terry's address book. Terry, along with noted
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heading home, Karl hurriedly drives into an oncoming lane and swerves to miss a truck. This causes his car to go off the road into a cemetery, all while he laughs like a maniac.
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mother goes into shock during the siege and is transported to the hospital for recovery. Aided by Bram and Josh, Bram manages to defeat Karl by introducing a
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manages to transfer his soul into a computer. Now, as a network-based entity, Karl continues to plot his killing spree using various objects connected to the
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grossed $ 1,854,431 and ranked at no. 10. By the end of its run, it had grossed a domestic total of $ 5,086,909, failing to recoup its $ 12 million budget.
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due to perceived similarities between the two films, however the film resumed development at Fox following uncredited re-writes by
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located in the lab, which draws Karl in and destroys him because of the extremely powerful magnetic field produced by the machine.
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had initially been slated for release some time in August 1993, but to avoid competition with
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about a deceased serial killer with artificial computer intelligence.
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body scans. Ted Marcoux, who plays Killer Karl, was scanned at
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that traps him in a physics laboratory. They activate an
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in an ambulance, causing the screen to fade to black.
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and major fall releases the release was pushed back.
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Rachel Talalay
William Davies
William Osborne
Paul Schiff
Karen Allen
Chris Mulkey
Phil Méheux
Graeme Revell
20th Century Fox
science fiction
horror film
Rachel Talalay
20th Century Fox
Cleveland, Ohio
serial killer
MRI
electrical storm
electrical grid
computer networks
flamethrower
computer hacker
computer virus
atom smasher
heart rate monitor
Karen Allen
Chris Mulkey
Wil Horneff
Jessica Walter
Brandon Adams

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