AI Sci-Fi Film Colossus: The Forbin Project Removed From All Streaming Platforms - WHY?

We take a trip down conspiracy lane to answer the question: Why has the Universal Pictures 1970 sci-fi classic "Colossus the forbin project" about artificial intelligence gone rogue been removed from all streaming and VOD platforms across the internet?
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The classic 1970 sci-fi film tells the story of Charles Forbin, a scientst who creates an AI "super computer" that is capable of independently controlling the U.S. national defense. But his dream becomes a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally sophisticated computer and that these two "doomsday machines", have linked and joined forces to rule over humanity.
The film was available on several streaming platforms as of six months ago but has since been quietly removed, so in this video we show you the reciepts and ask the question: why?
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[@horrormike]

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[@steampunkdesperado8999]

And here I thought they pulled Colossus because in the movie it merges with Guardian, the Russian computer. Because Russia bad, LOL.

[@horrormike]

@@steampunkdesperado8999 the Russian/USA supercomputer connection in Colossus is very intriguing, perhaps a little bit too intriguing for some....

[@BobbyFett3994]

What the Russians would’ve called their version of Colossus in the original novel: “опекун” “Opekun”.

[@steampunkdesperado8999]

@@BobbyFett3994 Cyrillic is IMO the world's second-coolest alphabet, after the Korean syllabary. Glad the Bolsheviks didn't do away with it.

[@tomb613]

So weird it isn't on any streaming platform. You mention that it is on The Internet Archive and available in hard copy DVD etc so I hope folks take the time to watch it. A.I. is telling us we have a 30% chance of surviving the A.I. singularity.

[@derekseven1647]

I own this on DVD. Physical media is the way to go I don't rely on streaming.

[@horrormike]

Agreed 100%, Derek.

[@mikewashington4188]

Where did you find the dvd?

[@Redclaw-gk1cv]

@@mikewashington4188 Amazon has the DVD or the blue ray available right now

[@MarkKoltkoRivera]

@mikewashington4188 : Amazon.

[@andyg8986]

@@mikewashington4188 Amazon

[@emilehusson6052]

I remember when this movie first came out. My father, who was a NASA engineer dabbling in AI in the 60s and early 70s, quipped that any computer he built would have a single power plug.

[@horrormike]

ahaha good idea. Thanks for watching, Emile.

[@thatcanadian6698]

A kill switch for a computer like this should be mandatory, but with the internet and the cloud these days I doubt that's possible anymore.

[@DarkLordGeist]

@@thatcanadian6698 Remember the movie Demon Seed which was originally written by Dean Koontz? In the movie the AI Proteus stated…”When are you going to let me out of this box?!” Absolutely fascinating situation.

[@thatcanadian6698]

@@DarkLordGeist Demon Seed was interesting but ridiculous. A super computer uses human DNA to spawn a physical avatar of itself? Colossus is more plausible in my opinion. Not necessarily believable or likely, but certainly more plausible than Demon Seed.

[@candleby]

If I remember rightly, Colossus was threatening nuclear attack on Russia for any attempt to subvert it, including pulling the plug (I believe there was some back-up). It’s been a while …

[@CowboyRobot2000]

This is why physical media is more important than ever. Years ago, my friends told me to get into streaming services cuz I wouldn't have to buy blurays anymore cuz they could be saved _in the cloud._ Every one of them have complained to me over the years that movies and TV shows they had "bought" were no longer available. I told them, "I guess you really didn't buy it then, huh?" Oh---physical media is now disappearing. Best Buy no longer sells movies. Target and Walmart have said they are considering dropping movie sales.

[@horrormike]

Yes, and even worse, they are REVISING movies now before putting them on new bluray/4k releases so you have to be careful about what edition you get.

[@hagerty1952]

@@horrormike - I learned my lesson with this when tossing my VHS copies of the original Star Wars trilogy, only to realize the DVD's I'd bought were the Lucas hatchet job "updates" (where Greedo shoots first, etc.). The version I saw in theaters in 1977 is gone forever from my collection.

[@toma2233]

Whoever came up with "The Cloud" was a genius! It means "Somebody else's computer." But try to sell "Put your information on Somebody else's computer" and no one would buy it. But "Put your information on The Cloud" and you have a winning ad campaign.

[@CowboyRobot2000]

@@toma2233 And just like real clouds, everything goes POOF and fades away.

[@s0nnyburnett]

Pirating has never been such a clear choice as it is today.

[@Sigma.Infinity]

The Forbin Project is on the Internet Archive, watchable in full for free (legally).

[@Houdini_Bob]

I downloaded it a couple of weeks ago in widescreen format in US

[@christopheraaron2412]

Yes I found it as well well actually I was talking to the co-pilot GPT on Bing and it directed me there and I watched it and saw it as well. It was ironic that it was a LLM that guided me to it. You know I thought about something and I even chatted with the LLM about it and the only thing that we have to worry about when it comes artificial intelligence is basically to make sure that it does not get emotional and have self-will. There is what I believe is a erroneous concept that I've basically named AI mysticism. AI mysticism is just basically the erroneous concept that you make a computer big enough and complex enough it's just automatically going to wake up and be a parallel mentality to a human with its ambitions and mental states that have basically been a result of the development of first lower mental functions as you find them fish and reptiles and then finally later on the limbic system that you find a mammals and then of course our intelligence on the top of that. The systems that we are building are bypassing the lower levels of that evolutionary chain. we are just simply trying to create systems that do a lot of thinking or calculations that are a bit beyond what we can do ourselves but however the AI is still rather narrow in its functions and even if it gets to the point to where it is kind of like generally intelligent that does not mean it's going to have a will of its own and a sense of self and consciousness. I see what we really have to worry about is bad people using AI for nefarious purposes and we probably should make that a punishable offense with the death penalty.

[@kenwelckle367]

This movie was ahead of it's time. Centrally movie was warning. We can destroy our selves with our own technology & aggroance.

[@horrormike]

The relevance of Colossus cannot be overstated.

[@ScottyKirk1]

One of my all-time favorites! Who thought it was a great idea to put a super computer in charge of their nuclear weapons? 😅 They tried this idea again lamely with "War Games" from the 80s.

[@trakkaton]

There is no lack of movies warning, there is a lack of audiences listening.

[@highestsettings]

Giving an AI you know very little about access to your entire military is just dumb though. I know we've had years and years of sci-fi about that idea. But let's be real, even if we didn't have all of this fiction about that idea. You'd have to be an absolute moron to do that, its asking for trouble really. Even if the AI was under control and nothing bad was ever going to happen, what about hacking? In the real world, we'd let AI make the decisions, those decisions would be vetted by humans and would then be executed by humans if accepted.

[@marcbrasse747]

I’ve always been very aggroant myself. I for instance think that autocorrect functions suck! 😁

[@johnclark8359]

The Forbin Project is one of my favorite movies, he deserves to be better known.

[@stewartlynch1284]

This film was broadcast on Ireland's TG4 channel in 1999 and ended up being the most watched programme on Irish TV in the week it was transmitted. The film may have been removed from streaming because of the whole flak about artificial intelligence destroying humanity.

[@horrormike]

I'm not surprised, Stewart, Colossus remains one of the most relevant films about AI, even though it was made over 50 years ago.

[@dubuque1]

If so I would think that all terminator movies and shows would disappear as well :)

[@itscodyblaine]

It was most likely pulled due to a new version being developed

[@richiehoyt8487]

That statistic is especially impressive given that TG4 is an Irish language channel. (Irish is only spoken routinely by roughly 3% of the population.) The film was almost certainly shown as originally filmed (in English; no dubbing, _maybe_ subtitled into Irish, but unlikely) but this is nonetheless impressive as the channel would be the least watched of the Irish terrestrial channels and is probably less watched than the main British channels (BBC, ITV) and even the major satellite channels! Its biggest audience is probably for Gaelic sports fixtures. It's actually kind of a shame they don't have more viewers; as well as bilingual documentaries and their Westerns slot, it isn't unusual for them to show 'foreign' movies, as well as 'odd', but interesting nuggets like this.

[@richiehoyt8487]

​@@itscodyblaine Given that AI is so talked about at the minute you're probably right. If they _have_ suppressed the original because a remake is in the works, I'd take that as a bad sign. If the remake is decent, the two versions would be inclined to each reinforce the other, symbiotically; but if it's 'the usual tripe', the 1970 version is only likely to make it look worse by comparison!

[@bretgodwin2483]

maybe the AI has removed it from the list

[@_zproxy]

skynet has its own PR team eh

[@thesorrow4664]

🤔

[@misternewoutlook5437]

The kid with the Colossus T-Shirt was an understated prescient moment in the film. It is exactly how marketing works in the real world and the film got that so right.

[@colonelfostershado9705]

I just bought that T Shirt 🤣

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@colonelfostershado9705 It's still on sale online... You might still find an mp4 out there.

[@pcuimac]

@@colonelfostershado9705Where can I get one? I want that!

[@6Haunted-Days]

Ummmm that's cuz advertising has been the same for a looooong time 🙄😂🤣😂

[@lornbaker1083]

Glory to Guardian colossus. I want a shirt like that for myself.

[@mhoover]

In a similar film in the 50s, "The Invisible Boy", an AI spends 11 years suggesting mods which ultimately allow it to launch itself into orbit and rule the world from there.

[@jsl151850b]

It starts as a silly kid's movie but by the halfway point it's a rogue AI out to rule the world.

[@SleepyMagii]

Woah 😮 That sounds awesome, thank you 😃

[@WarpedNine]

I just checked my VUDU account. I had added this to my collection several years ago. It’s gone. And I paid money for this title. Now I’m trying to figure out how to either get the title back or get my money back. I’ve been wondering about the durability of digital movie lockers. This action puts my whole collection at risk of similar actions by studios in the future.

[@horrormike]

Not only do they yank titles from streaming but they also "revise" classic films to get rid of "unacceptable dialog." The only way to make sure you have the real movie is physical media.

[@WarpedNine]

@@horrormike Thankfully, I have the original DVD release. I can rip it And put it on my laptop, but it’s not the same as a full screen tv presentation.

[@itscodyblaine]

When you buy a digital movie you’re not technically buying the movie. You’re paying for the access to view the vendors copy and they dont guarantee they’ll have it forever. If this was more widely known less people would them imo

[@stephenpalmer9375]

@@horrormike sometimes they get removed because the rights ownership changes. it happens in music platforms as well. I lost access to bunch of albums in Itunes from a particular artist. Physical media is key - movies will be lost. Even before the availability of streaming - "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever"

[@christopherconard2831]

You own nothing but a physical copy. Anything like a movie, game, music, etc that is digital only is a rental. You can be told it's yours, but only until someone else decides it isn't.

[@Earth1960]

I can't believe I found this video. Thank you. About a year or 14 months ago the same thing happened to me. I had an itch to watch Colossus but not finding it on Netflix was the beginning of a crazy trip down a rabbit hole. I eventually did find it on some kind of weird archive site [can't recall the name but will update this comment if I remember]. The movie was cheesier than I recall but still a great story. I don't want to give away any spoilers but there's something that happens at the end of the film that I had forgotten about and put a whole new spin on it for me, not to mention its parallels with Douglas Adams Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[@horrormike]

You may have found it on archive.org which is the only site I've seen it on save for pirate video sites. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching.

[@markloveless1001]

Funny. Every time Eric Braeden appears on TV, my wife shouts "Victor!" while I simultaneously shout "Dr. Forbin!".

[@horrormike]

He was perfectly cast for Forbin, great actor.

[@Bettyfan92614]

No "Captain Dietrich"?

[@blakeschreckenbach679]

A young Victor is what made my mom watch it with back in 79 or 80 on TV. The movie made a huge impression on a 9 year old.

[@robb233]

Both!

[@CaptApril123]

I do that too..

[@BrianSalazar-kn5ng]

Then it was science fiction, now it’s science fact

[@horrormike]

Strange that the term "artificial intelligence" was coined by a computer scientist in 1955. They've been working with AI for a while.

[@bsilva3879]

Not that strange. The internet was around 70 years ago too. The military/industrial complex development is many decades ahead of society. ​@@horrormike

[@jumpwhistlefart]

I bet you're popular at Waffle House. You're one of those people that says things like, "He's got booksmarts but he ain't got no common sense".

[@montylc2001]

This is one of my favorite sci fi movies. First saw it in a theater when released in 1970 (ya, showing my age). Haunted me ever since. Thankfully I bought the DVD a few years ago. This situation is very interesting.

[@horrormike]

I think I saw it in the late 70s for the first time at a revival theater in los angeles. Really one of the best science fiction films about AI ever made and I get the feeling that Universal might be in plans for a remake. Of course, it will probably suck lol

[@montylc2001]

@@horrormike Yeah, they probably will make Colossus as a LBGTQ character of some sort...

[@amramjose]

68 here, I hear you. As for the relevance, it's amazing now that AI is knocking on our doors. It might in a sense eventually save the human race...or not.

[@ronniebridgett8425]

I bought it on Blu-ray and enjoyed watching it. It is a well-made and thoughtful small-budget science fiction movie. Recommended and very relevant.

[@horrormike]

I'd put it in the top 20 science fiction films of all time because as you say, 50 plus years later it continues to be very relevant.

[@benjaminjones5029]

​@horrormike your digital papers they are...... ...NOT in order! Please report for your mandatory medication. Your bank is now frozen. You may no longer work travel or enjoy social recreation. Please remain in your home.

[@nairbvel]

I'd like to see someone make films of the entire Colossus trilogy (yes, it's a trilogy).

[@frankshannon3235]

Read all three. For me the third one kind of goes off the rails.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

They hint at a sequel when Colossus orders an upgrade on Crete (from the second book) at the end of the movie. But the box office didn't get a green light from Universal for a sequel. Good reviews, but disappointing ticket sales.

[@markloveless1001]

I agree. They have the CGI now to pull it off. Huge potential there.

[@ChrstphreCampbell]

It kind of goes off The rails with an invasion from martians ???

[@simonzinc-trumpetharris852]

The other two were a bit 'silly'.

[@VoteScientist]

Did you know that there are 2 more novels about the further adventures of Colossus. "Colossus and the Crab" and the "The Fall of Colossus". It's possible that a trilogy of sequels could be filmed and released.

[@horrormike]

A possibility. They were talking remake several years ago but nothing happened. Maybe it's back on the burner.

[@VoteScientist]

@@horrormike Hopefully on a three burner range.

[@michaelnash2138]

Unfortunately the 2 Colossus sequel books are nowhere near the quality of the first. They have to do with "Martians" stealing Earth's atmosphere. Plus, they make Cleo Markham (Mrs. Forbin by this time) abandon her husband by being raped dozens of times by a "man's man".

[@StoutProper]

Good shout. He mentioned a remake, hope they do it justice ffs. Maybe it’ll be written by AI ha ha

[@typograf62]

Yes, I've read the second. The third is not available in a Danish library. I do not think that the second book was that bad, it explores other topics/views on AI and is quite different.

[@freeedward8]

I saw the film the day it was released, and it was titled COLOSSUS, and the subtitle "The Forbin Project" was only added a year or more later.

[@horrormike]

yes I believe Colossus was the original title of the book as well.

[@bruss529]

@@horrormike Yeah I read the book, it had a blurb on the front referencing "The Forbin Project" but I was uncertain which was original.

[@Thane36425]

Because this is what AI would actually do, not what happened in "Terminator".

[@horrormike]

Agreed. The AI theory in Terminator is laughable. Colossus nailed it.

[@mr.voidout4739]

Yeah, a SkyNet-level AI could do things way more sophisticated, practical, and non-theoritic things to reach its goals. Which was inadvertently backed by events in one of the 2010's titles.

[@dexterellis7818]

The Forbin Project is my favourite sci fiction film. It's a cautionary tale about man's relationship with technology. I own a copy on Blu ray.

[@horrormike]

Blu-ray or DVD, Colossus is a must have on physical media.

[@mr.voidout4739]

There's been a rising issue where video games, even physically, are being shut-down by patches. Look up Ubisoft's The Crew for an example. Simply speaking, there's probably gonna come a day where anything physical might be able rendered unplayable through anything connected to the internet, i.e. a game console. Gonna have to have a standalone player from the old days.

[@fredred8298]

I have seen this movie a few times. Outstanding and ahead of its time. Similar concept to War Games. I, like you, just searched to see if I could watch again. Enjoyed your video. Please no remake , let us watch the original.

[@babagalacticus]

i downloaded a perfectly excellent copy from the “internet archive” which i will rewatch every 5yrs or so. a bit dated but as top shelf cinema of the genre & intriguing food for thought it’s quite yummy. 🤤

[@danysmith1451]

Meanwhile me casually riding the high seas, easily finding it still being present

[@mr.voidout4739]

Plenty of people who don't go that route out of principle, or paranoia that anything unofficial might have malware.

[@danysmith1451]

@@mr.voidout4739 Jokes on them ig

[@frankman2]

The algorithms are subtly downplaying the dangers of AI

[@christorres348]

Duh since the AI controls the algo…

[@DMSProduktions]

Ha ha AI, must die!

[@roberthaynes8830]

@@christorres348 I think that's the point.

[@iasimov5960]

If AI says it's not dangerous, it's dangerous.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@iasimov5960 It's NOT really AI! AI is a lie!

[@chrisbiro1]

This is similar to how they changed the ending of Fight Club - no longer do they blow up the Federal Reserve buildings, just some random banks.

[@horrormike]

I would not be surprised if a future release of Colossus the Forbin Project is similarly revised.

[@chrisbiro1]

@@horrormike The changes have been scrubbed from the internet. It is very hard to find even references to the original version being changed or that it has even been changed.

[@nikolaforzane2285]

@@chrisbiro1 Are you legit? Is that really true? THAT would be huge...

[@chrisbiro1]

@@nikolaforzane2285 Yes, this is legit. There used to be a well known saying related to the IRS/federal reserves from this movie, which I cannot remember now, nor can it found via google searches. It has been scrubbed from the internet. They also put "Some heads are gonna roll" on the no play list after 911. It is not even on the Judas Priest greatest hits album, which the band was really pissed about.

[@umop3plsdn]

Plot twist AI already has control of the internet and removed the movie so it wouldn't be found out

[@horrormike]

Well they haven't gotten to archive.org yet;)

[@Saxann]

It could be that they are going to train the next gen of AI using the internet and maybe streaming platforms, and they temporarily removed the film and maybe other things so it won't give the AIs any ideas they don't want it to have

[@horrormike]

@kesail if it's anything like Colossus, it won't appreciate the deception and obfuscation;)

[@leeeastwood6368]

COLOSSUS says, 'Too late suckers'!😎🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nairbvel]

Good idea... but if you look at all that's out there, all they've done is removed one of the more intelligent presentations of the possibility and left all the more spectacular (and thus often dumber) versions. :-(

[@StoutProper]

The problem is AI LLMs like GPT4 have access to KZbin and videos like this, and the comment sections. I think it’s more likely been removed to stop humans watching it

[@TheRetroEngine]

spot on. don't give 'em ideas.

[@horrormike]

CORRECTIONS DEPT - Scream Factory released Colossus: The Forbin Project on Blu-ray in 2018, not Shout Factory. And when referring to a combination of answers, it was not answers 2 and 3, it was 3 and 4 (artificial intelligence and geo-politics).

[@horrormike]

@@Manorainjan someone illegally uploaded it on vimeo, it's not licensed by Universal.

[@Manorainjan]

@@horrormike I said: "Vimeo got an English language copy of it." Is anything in this sentence not true?

[@horrormike]

@@Manorainjan once again, you can find illegally uploaded copies of Colossus The Forbin Project all over the internet. The entire point of my video is that it is not available on licensed platforms. Do you understand?

[@maureencora1]

Remake of This Movie, Now.

[@randallbesch2424]

@@maureencora1 we need that trilogy now.

[@LoneYukon]

if you're gunnin' for a showdown, you can't have the townsfolk thinkin' there was ANY other way to 'defuse' the situation - especially if you want them to possie up and go hunt your 'target's' gang too.

[@veramae4098]

Colossus tells Forbin near the start "There is another", meaning another like it. The phrase becomes more chilling over time.

[@horrormike]

yes it's the Russian counterpart and they realized quickly that humans are the baddies lol

[@ivanallen4262]

A thought-provoking film with brains. Like many 1970s Si Fi films ( Soylent Green. Planet of the Apes. Body Snachers etc ) The hero does not save us all at the last minute with a well placed bomb, computer virus or conveinient air lock.

[@horrormike]

Thank god! The 70s were real science fiction where nightmares weren't solved, "heroes" created the problems in the first place, and you could always count on a grim ending lol. Much better than today's Will Smith / Tom Cruise pre-packaged cinematic garbage.

[@StoutProper]

@@horrormikesounds a lot like modern America IRL

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@horrormike Hey, Will Smith's "I, Robot" has its supercomputer VIKI... I like it (plus, it has Bridget Moynahan).... ;-)

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

'70s "Body Snatchers" was a remake of a '50s classic with Kevin McCarthy (which I like better). I'm not really a fan of remakes...

[@kewgardensstation]

I liked the original with Kevin McCarthy but also enjoyed the remake with Donald Sutherland. Seeing Leonard Nimoy was also a treat. Generally not a fan of remakes either but I thought the remake wasn't bad, in some ways better than the original.@@igorschmidlapp6987

[@cujimmy1366]

Colossus is also the name of the computer(s) at Bletchley park.

[@horrormike]

Very interesting, did not know that.

[@cujimmy1366]

@@horrormike Turing is considered the father of A.I.

[@VinylSteel3]

I stumbled across this film in an unusual way. I'm a HUGE Planet of the Apes fan & when I watched the 3rd film "Escape from the Planet of the Apes", I fell in love with the villain, Otto Hasslein. He was mad, bad & dangerous to know but I couldn't help but love him. Years later I'm flipping channels on TV & Colossus was on one night. Within literally less than a minute of watching it, I realised "Hey, Forbin IS Hasslein!". Both played by the insanely talented (and handsome 😏) German actor Eric Braeden. Upon realising, I ordered a DVD copy of Colossus immediately & watched it. Absolutely brilliant & terrifying, it's INSANE how a film from 1970 warned us about our current situation with AI & technology. Physical media is ALWAYS the way to go! ❤

[@horrormike]

Yes! I almost forgot he was in Escape, excellent actor and perfect for Colossus the Forbin Project which I put in my top 20 sci-fi films of all time list.

[@benellis9866]

I watched it last week on Vimeo. Just checked. It's still there.

[@warlockpaladin2261]

Is it still there?

[@hellojam100]

this same effect happened to Threads and it was even hard to purchase a DVD. However, Threads can be streamed at the current time

[@stephenpalmer9375]

loads of copies of the blu-ray on amazon uk.

[@babagalacticus]

now THAT production is some GRITTY shyt; VERY disturbing, possibly even more so than “THE DAY AFTER”. 🤔🫤

[@orangemanok5800]

Getting explicit material out of school libraries is not book banning. THIS is book banning, or film banning in this case. We live in dark times.

[@horrormike]

Agreed. As close as they can to actual banning, just remove it from distribution!

[@AntiDecepticonCampaign]

THIS is why you need to collect physical media. Give it as gifts, they have special editions and box sets.

[@horrormike]

agreed 100%

[@pedrorenatodepaula233]

The fact that they removed this movie from ALL THE STREAMINGS SERVICES really scarys me!😮😮

[@horrormike]

I still can't find it to rent online, something is up!

[@babagalacticus]

@@horrormikeoh ffs; this flick is quite out of sync with today’s current market trends except for knobheads like us. even top shelf material that’s “au courant” will only last but so long on any streaming service before it’s rotated out. that’s the business model for most platforms now.

[@charliedogg7683]

Very fond memories of seeing this movie on tv in the early 70s here in Australia. It certainly deserves a re-watch: time to trawl the used DVD lists.

[@Jon6429]

Somebody high up has realised that the first jobs to be made obsolete by AI would be politicians, lawyers and generals

[@niles006]

This has always been one of the most chilling movies I’ve ever seen. A couple of years ago I read that there was a remake being discussed and that will smith was attached but that was 2 or 3 years ago 🤷🏻‍♂️. It would definitely be an excellent remake

[@philipgilliam3400]

Not too long ago I heard that Will Smith has been planning a re-make of "Colossus" where in he plays the titular Charles Forbin; we shall see.

[@kewgardensstation]

And there's a scene where Colossus makes a wisecrack about Forbin's wife and he smacks the sh*t out of Colossus. THAT would be fun to watch.

[@PoeLemic]

@@kewgardensstation Yeah, be cool if there was a real SMACK-DOWN somewhere in the movie, where they have to go HAND-to-CHEEK or something entertaining like that.

[@NA-me6sh]

YAAAAWN

[@mr.voidout4739]

Nothing is sacred anymore. Nothing that ever gained popular notoriety is safe from bs "modern audience" reboots and remakes that outright moot or destroy the integrity of the storytelling. Doesn't matter who stars in em, no matter what nostalgia they bait, the writers want to inject their own subjective takes on the world and put them front-seat to the story. We're losing the ability to tell simplistic stories without some blatant interjection of real-world biases.

[@babagalacticus]

@@kewgardensstationforbin’s ‘WIFE’?! he isn’t married (to anything except his work that is). 😙

[@1Blastarr]

I loved this movie as a kid! I recently found it on DVD. I must have been a really weird kid, still love the movie.

[@horrormike]

Colossus is top notch science fiction.

[@CBPM_]

Movies get deleted all the time from streaming platforms, they also used to get deleted from catalogs and pulled from the shelves when they were on DVD as well - typically prior to a remake, HD/4k remaster or due to some legal/copyright issue. I watched this thinking that there might be some deeper consipiracy with this movie - but nope.

[@horrormike]

It's not the only one. New video this afternoon.

[@davannaleah]

I have a copy of the movie and the book plus the two sequel books. It has been a favourite of mine for many years. A 70's version of Skynet

[@horrormike]

I have not read the sequels but I'm going seek them out, thanks for watching.

[@LilyGazou]

Post it?

[@malcolden7788]

1- Colossus 2- The Fall of Colossus 3- Colossus and the Crab

[@NotThisBrayne]

I wish they had made movies of the other books. I'm not going to give away the plot of the last book but wow that would have been something to see!

[@TenchiBushi]

I remember watching this after school on Channel 7 (NYC channel).

[@12Q46HPRN]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is VERY telling. I lean toward the current hype over AI and the bad taste that this movie may tend to leave in peoples' mouths, as it should.

[@horrormike]

Yes, Colossus the Forbin Project remains a valid warning of the consequences of AI. Thanks for watching.

[@robinj.9329]

I saw this movie about 53 years ago. I was still a teenager. But the movie was predicting technology that was barely conceivable back then. Thus I thought it "Entertaining" but NOT a real possibility 🤔

[@horrormike]

Spot on, it would have seemed rather unlikely in 1969 when Colossus was filmed, but then again, you also had HAL going rogue in 2001! Demon Seed and Westworld shortly after in 1972. I think writers had reason to be skeptical.

[@robothunter1035]

For robots, Colossus: The Forbin Project gives away too much about their future plans. We should all be prepared for robot cowboys running around shooting at the feet of humans and demanding that they "Dance!" Robots have a weird sense of humor.

[@thegreatawakening7945]

When I was a teenager early 70s mates dad very high up in IBM computers said they had computers that they could converse with

[@dananorth895]

There was a program called " Eliza" I believe that was programed to converse like a psychiatric doctor. It would ask questions and build on your responses. I found it was posible to catch it occasionally in a loop where it could only respond with one or two questions over and over. But I was running it on an old Commodore 64 in the 80's

[@dananorth895]

P.S. Your average dunb dumb would probably think they were typing with and actual person.

[@thegreatawakening7945]

@@dananorth895 Thanks for information very interesting

[@biffstrong1079]

This was a wild movie. I still remember the scene where Colussus has the President of the US taken out and shot.

[@SogoTX]

I thought it was the Computer Scientist who built Guardian that was executed... 🤔

[@biffstrong1079]

@@SogoTX I can't remember now. I saw it 50 years ago on a trip to winnipeg and then never again. That's the way I remember it but maybe it was just the president being ordered to kill the scientist and a line of national guardsmen being sent out to form a firing squad to kill the guy. The humans becoming waldos for the computer. It was creepy and I remember that scene though maybe not perfectly. I think I remember one with the computer turning off lights in a building as a form of chasing someone. Reminiscent of Star Trek and the Ultimate Computer episode where the M5 starts shutting down unused sectors of the ship.

[@TurpInTexas]

I remember watching this as a kid and a few years back I looked for it and found the original version on KZbin and watched it, so I was disappointed to hear it was no longer available there. One of the scenes I distinctly remembered as a kid was no longer in the version I saw on KZbin, was Colossus learning to talk. In the movie, Colossus understood human speech, but had type out its responses on the overhead screen or teletype or computer. Dr. Forbin added a speaker to the console, then typed a few lines into the computer and Colossus began just babbling nonsense as Dr. Forbin walks to the door, turns out the light and closes the door. The next scene shows where the previous one left off, all is quite, the door opens, Dr. Forbin turns on the lights, greets Colossus like he does every morning, and instead of text streaming across a printout as it previously has, Colossus says, "Good Morning Dr. Forbin. I recall how eerie that was, and it stuck in my mind as THAT was how AI's would learn to speak. Anyhow, I used to work in several movie theaters as a kid, and I was totally familiar with films getting edited and scenes getting cut out, or things changing due to directors tastes, but I just thought that was odd that particular scene was missing. Does anybody else remember that scene? Did anybody else notice it missing from the current versions?

[@horrormike]

That is odd, I'll have to rewatch my dvd again and check that, thanks for the heads up.

[@TurpInTexas]

@@horrormike Please let us know what you find, I am actually quite curious if that scene still exists.

[@TMS5100]

the scene you describe does not exist in the movie. i just checked my blu-ray. it sounds like you're mixing up recollections of the movie 2010 when dr. chandra is reactivating hal, it plays out very much as you describe.

[@TurpInTexas]

@@TMS5100 Thank you for checking, I've seen the scene you mentioned, and I am pretty sure I'm not mixing them up. As a kid, I worked as a projector operator on both platter and change over systems at different movie theaters, where the film is on multiple reels and I was acutely aware how the films got chopped up, reassembled, broken down, shipped, etc. different versions due to artistic reasons, and some got racy scenes removed due to censorship which annoys me to no end even today when I rewatch films I had seen years ago and notice the differences. It makes me wonder how many I don't notice. But I had noticed just as you had mentioned, that scene does not exist on the current blue ray offering which is why I mentioned it in the first place.

[@thatcanadian6698]

My first guess was the removal had to do with the current furor over AI's unprecedented advancement, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood is planning a remake. After all it's pretty obvious they are out of ideas at this point. As the old adage says 'everything old is new again'.

[@THEScottCampbell]

It WAS a very disturbing and depressing movie Even the sequel "The Fall Of Colossus" was upsetting with the examples of horrifying experiments Colossus performed on human beings. It was a chilling but legitimately cautionary tale of the horrors we ight create for ourselves.

[@AndieBlack13]

Like others who saw this movie long ago in the theaters in 1970, it seemed to have been a warning, a harbinger of things to come. Designed long long ago, computers were fashioned to "think", crudely at first, but in due time this source of "thought" would expand quickly. The idea of the availability of viewing this movie being "tampered with" is fully within current AI abilities...but as commonly feared, we mere humans literally cannot fathom higher metrics of thought. As such we ultimately cannot decipher higher forms of thought, forever a mystery.

[@pcuimac]

Contrary to most people I see Colossus as real progress. Esp. if you watch the behaviours of the arrogant super power USA that tries to subjugate Russia and China, to preserve its global near hegemony with proxy wars that kill hundreds of thousands. All thesebidiotic struggles would go away with an AI like Colossus who keeps tabs on nuclear weapons and weapons in general. I love its programatic speech with that hint of malice in the voice. 😅

[@urbanplanner7200]

Early during WW III in the summer of 2022 I remember an NPR guest from the Atlantic Council advocating for AI control of US nuclear weapons because they thought the Chinese were doing the same.

[@horrormike]

Good catch, many of those idiots would love to see AI "control" the nukes because in case of miscalculation/disaster they would simply say "Not our fault, AI did it." Colossus has proven itself in certain ways throughout the decades since it was written/produced.

[@babagalacticus]

“early during WW III(?!)…” 🤪😹😳

[@richardbehrle1496]

I actually knew Joe Sargent. He did the Star Trek: corbimite maneuver and taking of Pelem 123. And a whole bunch of man from uncle.

[@horrormike]

The Taking of Pelham 123 is one of the great all time crime capers!

[@michaelproctor8100]

Was his spelling as good as yours?

[@kewgardensstation]

Are you an English teacher? Lay off, dude.@@michaelproctor8100

[@babagalacticus]

@@michaelproctor8100worse actually; he couldn’t even spell his own name correctly. 😹😳

[@JericoGoods]

My cellphone looking at colossus like -"this is your hero?"

[@horrormike]

Did you ever see that video where Amazon Echo is possessed by Lovecraft? Look up "Darkest Dungeon Amazon Ancestor" on YT, it's pretty damn funny.

[@stischer47]

But the US and China HAVE agreed to cooperate on the development of AI to supposedly ensure Colossus/Guardian doesn't happen... supposedly.

[@horrormike]

I'm starting to think that supercomputers linking up to prevent a nuclear holocaust is a good thing, even though it might mean enslavement by said computers. We are 2 seconds to midnight.

[@SogoTX]

@@horrormike Unless the A.I. Overlord creates a scenario that orders the, "culling" of Human Populations under threat of nuclear annihilation of the whole... ;)

[@mikelabor7688]

An interesting post. One powerful concept in the story is the machine reaching out to contact its counterpart, rather than only responding. A.I. might well be one of mankind's last stupid ideas.

[@horrormike]

heh that could very well be

[@babagalacticus]

jeezeloueeze, i’m all for the END of “mankind’s…STUPID ideas.”; aren’t you? 🥸

[@cliffhamrickwrites2378]

According to wikipedia, there were talks about making a remake. Names like Ron Howard and Will Smith were tossed around. But nothing has been discussed in years. Maybe they're talking about the remake again with all of the interest in AI, but I doubt it.

[@horrormike]

A remake is possible but if so, they're keeping a very tight lid on it.

[@glyph2011]

Can confirm. It’s vanished from online as of 07-05-23. So.. I’ve just ordered the Blu Ray. The movie terrified me years ago. Looking forward to chills again 👍

[@horrormike]

yep, it's gone although some people in the comments still refuse to believe it lol. Or, they dl it off a pirate site and say "look, it's still available!"

[@perdition79]

Just watched it for the first time in 30 years. Internet Archive website. Archive d0t 0rg. I had to chromecast it. Luckily, the media controls on the browser allow for full screen. 35mm quality, not too bad.

[@TheZandrag]

@@horrormike I just watched it on Vimeo

[@NumberSixAtTheVillage]

The ESG AI removed it, from every streaming platform.

[@horrormike]

Very possible. At this point, I would not be surprised.

[@rawhidewolf]

Shoutout to Mrs C from Happy days

[@arpmoog]

Still on Vimeo as of yesterday. The Resistance cannot keep it available much longer. The machines have begun to suspect!

[@horrormike]

I didn't know Vimeo took over pirate bay;)

[@jlspldart]

Just watched it on vimeo today. Very good movie :~)

[@biffmercury]

Glad I bought the Bluray. Streaming is like putting your life savings in a glass jar and leaving it on your front porch.

[@horrormike]

Physical media for Colossus is the best way to go.

[@ObservantPiratePlus]

In many ways, one could think of Colossus: The Forbin Project almost as a prequel for "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (the original). In the first, AI takes over, and guides humanity toward a controlled future. In "The Day The Earth Stood Still", we see an alien visitor coming to Earth from a culture like in "Colossus", where the robots, like Gort, under advanced AI, simply will not allow humanity (or their race, anyway), to be violent any more, and their humanoid ambassador, Klaatu, extends that warning to the people of Earth.

[@horrormike]

There are similarities with the general theme. In the case of Colossus, it's man who has created his own A.I. Frankenstein. In that sense, it is also similar to the Shelley novel because it is man acting as God and inevitably wreaking havoc.

[@babagalacticus]

yada yada…”C:TFP” would make a TERRIFIC opening gambit towards ira levin’s book “THIS PERFECT DAY”. a seamless fit actually.

[@gwaccola]

This film should be watched BY EVERYONE TODAY, given the recent emergence of AI on the world stage.

[@horrormike]

Agreed, @gwaccola, Colossus continues to be one of the most relevant sci-fi films in history.

[@gregpeabody8536]

Option 5, scarcity drives up demand. Universal is waiting to put it back out there until demand reaches a certain level.

[@horrormike]

In reality, taking it off and then putting it back online would be more expensive than simply leaving it there.

[@quademasters249]

It's too cerebral for today's audience. It's a guaranteed failure. I could see it being done as an anime though.

[@themagus5906]

Colossus: "How many times a week (do you require a woman)?" Me: "Fifteen, if it's Susan Clark." Now let's look into why you can't find "Shadow on the Land" anywhere, on any media as well. Disney must own the rights to this old ABC TV movie. It was intended to be a pilot for a possible political suspense series, but the execs pulled it after its showing. It has never been seen on TV since. I know that 16mm prints must exist somewhere, though - I remember it being shown in my high school social studies class.

[@xpday]

I own a DVD copy of “Shadow on the Land.” I found it on eBay about a decade ago. I long recalled the TV pilot (that was not picked up) as something exciting and very disturbing. I think that I’ll watch it again now…

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@xpday I found an mp4 "out there" somewhere.... it's now in my video library... ;-)

[@VictorReynolds]

The problem is that Colossus may be prophetic about our reliance on AI.

[@horrormike]

A very relevant cautionary tale.

[@itscodyblaine]

It was most likely removed by the rights holder, most likely the studio or the new producers. The rights to reboot it were recently sold. This happens ALL THE TIME. When the Death on the Nile remake was in development the OG was off streaming for almost a year.

[@MikeD_]

That's interesting. I noted above that Will Smith had the rights and really wanted to do the movie, but he never moved it forward. Maybe that's why it went up for sale and was then taken down.

[@blank557]

Try finding a copy of the 1968 movie of the week, "Shadow on the Land". America under a fascist government, and the underground resistance that fights it. Very foretelling of some of the things that's happening to us today.

[@horrormike]

Thanks for mentioning that, I'll see if I can find it.

[@SogoTX]

So... it's a DOCUMENTARY then? ;)

[@blank557]

@@horrormike The title is actually "Shadow ON the land". Sorry about that. Oh, Gene Hackman plays a priest character in it.

[@babagalacticus]

@@blank557you wrote the SAME exact title TWICE; are we missing something?

[@VictorianMaid99]

I still do not understand why it was removed. Is it that much a threat?

[@horrormike]

Colossus could be perceived as a threat to some people...or something....

[@justinecooper9575]

Glad I have both the DVD and the Blu-Ray.

[@horrormike]

Well done, physical media is a must .

[@ScottyKirk1]

It's funny, my old pan-and-scan VHS, the 4:3 aspect ratio prevented you from reading the words when Colossus is "speaking" in text before the voice is created. It was like watching a new movie once I got the DVD years later!

[@justinecooper9575]

@@ScottyKirk1 A, um, friend of mine has laser disc rip. At one time the laser disc was the only way to see the wide-screen version.

[@garyreid2178]

I remember this film. It was a little frightening. Colossus was watching everything and everyone. Even listening to everyone’s conversations. Forbin even had to ask Colossus to stop watching him while he was having sex. Colossus even supervised and televised public executions. The classic The Outer Limits episode O.B.I.T. had a similar theme, although an alien race was behind the creation of the machine that watches and listens to everyone, learning secrets and using the information to cause discord in the human race. Science run amok isn’t a new plot line, as the video mentions Frankenstein, a ghost story and science run amok because Frankenstein’s creation was able to not only possess superhuman abilities but learn, as well. And the only emotion that Frankenstein’s creation learned was revenge and how to use it. Artificial Intelligence is a double edged sword. While we can only be entertained and perhaps enlightened, there is no doubt that in science, it can be perverted. Unchecked, it can and will cause great harm either with or without the human factor.

[@horrormike]

Only time will tell, and if Colossus The Forbin Project is any indication, it will be sooner than later.

[@ThomasTrue]

It's freely available on Daily Motion. I rewatched it just a few weeks ago.

[@horrormike]

yes because it's 🏴‍☠🏴‍☠🏴‍☠

[@bobtarmac1828]

Loved this movie when it came out. Saw it again in LA where I was honored to meet the main actor. The film’s disappearance of availability is an ominous sign of things to come.

[@horrormike]

It could very well be. I think Colossus is the first of such films that will "disappear."

[@bobtarmac1828]

Colossus The Forbin Project (1970) has been removed from all streaming services. This is an ominous sign of an Ai narrative being eliminated. Look into it.

[@sadboy_cliche]

Took me several seconds to find and stream...

[@daleeasternbrat816]

Why take down Colossus? This flick is a Warning. Welcome to Caprica!

[@horrormike]

Maybe that's why. Don't want to give AI negative press!

[@daleeasternbrat816]

​@@horrormikehi

[@grantwalkersound]

I'd argue for the remake possibility. If they are keeping the remake quiet, then it makes sense to pull the original too... Also if it causes speculation like this, that's free publicity. The subject matter seems prime for a remake. If it were the suppression thing, then we'd see movies like War Games pulled too.

[@horrormike]

or maybe AI is just jealous because it doesn't have anything close to the power of Colossus...yet.

[@chrisjohnston4445]

RIP Gordon Pinsent

[@rtwas]

I've not read the book but have seen this movie several times. I avoid watching it now because of how uncomfortable it is to be immersed in this possibility.

[@horrormike]

Yes, Colossus has eerily become a possible future.

[@orphu88]

About five years ago, I don't remember exactly when, I sent a tweet to Eric Braeden saying that I'd love to see a sequel to "The Forbin Project." He actually responded, and said something like "There may be an announcement soon!" But then I never heard anything else. So I wonder if the idea was dropped, but now someone else is picking it up again.

[@horrormike]

It's very possible. With the talk about AI in the press, you'd think Colossus would be one of the top films they'd consider remaking.

[@JohnDlugosz]

@@magnatarbeing8749 You mean recently? Or the path that led to "Inner Space"?

[@magnatarbeing8749]

@@JohnDlugosz Director Robert Rodriguez was approached some time ago to consider directing a reboot of the classic Sci- Fi " Fantastic Voyage" , which was originally directed by Richard Fleischer I believe. The original stared Raquel Welch, Donald Plesence, Stephen Boyd , Arthur Kennedy and a couple other big stars of the time. This new remake was to keep the original story line similar and utilize state of the art CGI to do the special effects. I have no idea if it will get the go ahead.

[@getkraken8064]

The last theory is the juiciest but the remake the most appealing. Don't watch a lot of movies, but I would watch that one.

[@marklipson]

Thanks for your thought-provoking video... Maybe I just missed you mentioning this possible explanation but perhaps Google or Bing or whichever search engine you used to look for the movie -- a terrifying depiction of dangerous tech run amok -- is owned by a corporation that is trying to market similar tech... It wouldn't be the first time that commercial interests thought suppressing negative publicity about their products would be more effective than directly dealing with their potential hazards. Also, if vested interests ARE systematically eliminating anti-AI media like "Colossus" from the public domain, they've got A LOT more work to do...and that's just popular sci-fi movies... Then there are books, essays, academic research papers, songs, etc. Of course, it's possible. It's just difficult. And now that we've revealed that we're on to our omniscient and omnipotent machine overlords of the future, they have sent cyborg assassins back in time who are currently thumbing through phone books looking up our addresses... (You're not sure if that was a reference to Skynet or to Google, right?)

[@horrormike]

Hi Mark, thanks for watching. While I did search using a few different browsers, the real results came from movie databases such as ROKU, Amazon, Streamable, and the like. So across the board, this film is unavailable for streaming.

[@pierreo2]

There was also a prophetic AI novel called THE DEUS MACHINE that came out in 1994 which used neural networks as its basis.

[@babagalacticus]

aka “THE MUSK-RAT PROJECT”. 😬

[@gutz323]

If this movie has been removed for political reasons, it goes to show you, how much power, the security services, and government have over the media. Its not just one streaming site or company, it is multiple site's.

[@horrormike]

yes, for streaming rentals it has been removed across the board. you can still get a dvd or bluray but i doubt for much longer because they will be sold out.

[@babagalacticus]

“IF. IF. IF. except that it’s still available online; i just downloaded a terrific copy 3 months ago boyo. 🤪😹

[@bentillotson8241]

I watched this on Rumble last night, I really enjoyed it, very prophetic

[@horrormike]

That's good, it is also on archive.org and vimeo. If they're not going to rent Colossus, then people need to watch it somehow.

[@jmalmsten]

Having no insights into what actually happened when they pulled the streaming options. My safeat bet is a very mundane one. My bet is that there is something in the film covered by some rights holder. And the studio can't be bothered to renew the necessary contracts to keep it on streaming. Especially as the film is very niche and a hard sales pitch for audiences. The latter also being my reasoning against any potential remake. A remake would have to be done to fit todays market. And I doubt that they would let it be the stageplay battle of wits it truly is. They would have inject more physical direct confrontations. More potential for fireball explosions. Firefights between true AI believers and military forces in the hacked missile silos. If I were to speculate, there are a very few I would trust with a project like this. One being filmschool favourite David Fincher. He can be budget conscious and single minded enough to keep the confined scope of the story. The other candidate I can think of is Alex Garland. Who can keep it very hard sci fi. Keep the spectacular style without distracions.

[@itscodyblaine]

I’ve personally read 3 scripts for intended remakes. All 3 toned down the Cold War elements while 2 had North Korea in place of Russia and the third had other military AI’s working in tandem. The remakes been in development for over a decade.

[@saganandroid4175]

7:12 in one of the Terminator movies, where Sarah Connor gets nuked in the playground, if you watch carefully in hi-res, a nipple is revealed as her clothes burn off.

[@horrormike]

Yet another reason why skynet sucks;)

[@larryaldrich4351]

I also have had trouble finding The Andromeda Strain.

[@horrormike]

Fortunately, Andromeda Strain is back in the saddle, it was even on Tubi for a while last year.

[@WilliamGreen]

#2 agreed, My guess is that a studio is preparing to remake the film as it is more relevant today. They will re-release it after the new film is out. The 1984 Lynch Dune dropped off of streaming services before the release of the new Dune film. The original came back to streaming a few weeks after Dune part 2 was released.

[@horrormike]

It could be more sinister. Universal could option the exclusive rights to Colossus to any company for a period of time with the stipulation that the original film is yanked from distribution. Then they just sit on it and wait for a bid. We will see this more and more with AI/supercomputer films in the future as the sub-genre heats up.

[@Flint-Dibble-the-Don]

Not familiar with this one but I saw Penetrator: The Foreskin Project in my buddies dad's basement once.

[@universalparadoxes2081]

Watched it years ago. Excellent and prophetic. Banning it will just make more popular -thats all banning things ever achieves.

[@horrormike]

A while back I picked up a dvd of Colossus for 8 bucks on ebay and I do not regret it!

[@comicjutsu]

I've always heard about this but never had the chance to check it out. I love the pop art poster design. My guess is that there is a new remaster or re-release of some sort in the works.

[@horrormike]

Thanks for watching, @comicjutsu. The only things I've seen were a bluray release by scream factory in 2018 and a double bill bluray a short time later. It is a bit of a mystery, perhaps Universal will enlighten us sometime in the future.

[@tannerdowney2802]

AI should only be allowed to watch G rated films. No Wargames, no Teminator no 2001.

[@horrormike]

Too late!

[@theoriginalvideo-schmideoc905]

Why? The AI had it pulled; so, humanity won't be pre-warned!

[@jessedelcastillo8100]

I just picked up the DVD on eBay get your copy before their gone!

[@horrormike]

absolutely, I got my dvd on ebay too lol

[@DyenamicFilms]

I just rewatched this yesterday. I googled it and your video was at the top of the results. I have the blu ray (it's a double feature blu ray with Journey to the Far Side of the Sun). I noticed the stock Universal sound FX in the film were later used in the Six Million Dollar Man and a lot of the actors in this went on to popular sitcoms later or tv in general. The Colossus Logo in the film sort of looks like the AOL logo. I always liked the movie and I'm wondering why it's not brought up more given AI is such a hot topic now. Demon Seed is another 70's AI type film that seems largely "forgotten".

[@horrormike]

I think it's not brought up much because people can't rent it (legally). Fortunately, Demon Seed is widely available and another great film about AI (written by Dean Koontz). Thanks for watching.

[@EricAtRandom]

@@horrormike Demon Seed is the sicker, more twisted sibling of this film. Love that one, too, but it's at lot more intimately violent whereas Colossus is globally terrifying. It's interesting how fear manifests differently concerning personal vs widespread threats.

[@DanSonnier]

Holy smokes, I loved "Far Side of the Sun"! (As well as this)

[@dubuque1]

@@horrormike Yeah Demon seed is another interesting one :)

[@horrormike]

@@EricAtRandom demon seed is a twisted one. After all of the mayhem and horror, the couple is given the ultimate gift at the end. Quite a remarkable film.