80s Movie Computer Takes Over House

Electric Dreams: Directed by Steve Barron. With Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort. A young man buys a computer that accidentally becomes sentient and begins to turn its affections toward the man's attractive female neighbor.

Electric Dreams is a 1984 science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Steve Barron (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Rusty Lemorande. The film stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, and the voice of Bud Cort. Electric Dreams was released in the United States by MGM/UA Entertainment Co.

on July 20, 1984, and in the United Kingdom by 20th Century. The movie made for TV Dream House, from 1998, has the following synopsis (the most complete I found): Computer genius Richard Connor Thornton (Timothy Busfield) hopes to strike it rich with the world's first fully automated house, controlled by " Helen," which even contains a logic chip for anticipating human needs. This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films in which activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot.

95 votes, 68 comments. trueI was researching weird 70's movies awhile back and stumbled upon sci-fi, A.I., computer control type movies.This was a movie about a smart, engineer, computer scientist who built a smart home that fully automated many modern conveniences. Eventually the smart home computer takes over, locks the man in the house and the battle for his freedom begins.

Thanks for any. The 15 scariest movies about computers, ranked (pictures) Hollywood loves to make boogeymen out of computers. Sometimes it even succeeds.

Electric Dreams -The 1984 Romantic Comedy movie featuring Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind. 8 pages of info, trailer, pictures and more. 10 great films about computers Nerd.

As with all new technologies, the increased miniaturisation of computers and their entry into the home brought with it a corresponding fear of the unknown and their potential to take over our lives. 1982's Tron took us inside the computer to a digital world with entities who wanted to take over our reality, while 1983's War Games aimed to.