![]() ![]() Just like Sarah Connor, she was terrified while defending the future. ![]() In fact, The Terminator shares more similarities with the original 1978 Halloween, which saw a silent, physical presence in Michael Myers ( Nick Castle) stalk, hunt, and kill young teenagers, eventually setting his sights on Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis), who in turn fought to protect the children under her care. ![]() Alien had been released a few years prior to critical acclaim, successfully combining the unknown horrors of space with a compelling tale of survival. Granted, The Terminator wasn’t the first science-fiction horror film, nor even the most popular at the time. It’s a familiar story, especially now in the age of bad sequels and remakes (looking at you Terminator Genisys…), but in 1984 it was fresh and unique. A purely physical presence, the machine stalked, hunted, and killed every Sarah Connor he could until finding the one who would become the mother of John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance against Skynet. The original Terminator played a fine line between science-fiction and horror as the teenage Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton) and the future warrior Kyle Reese ( Michael Biehn) fought to escape the metallic grip of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s original biker-clad T-800. ![]()
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