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2018
· Movie
· 100 min
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MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1047
- IMDb #1022
- Google retired #993
- Rotten Tomatoes #813
- Metacritic #1327
- Letterboxd #1652
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1226
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #816
- Metacritic Critics #1738
- Metacritic Audience #731
- Criticker #1051
- AlloCiné #699
Every rating
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out of 100
In a near-future world, a technophobe is paralyzed during a brutal mugging that kills his wife. A reclusive billionaire offers him an experimental cure: a computer chip implant called STEM that can restore control of his body. The chip gives him enhanced abilities and a voice in his head, and together they seek vengeance.
Details
- Director
- Leigh Whannell
- Writer
- Leigh Whannell
- Released
- 31 May 2018
- Country
- Australia, United States
- Language
- English, Dutch
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $17.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 10 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2019 | Best Wide Release | Leigh Whannell | Nominee |
| Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2019 | Best Actor | Logan Marshall-Green | Nominee |
| Saturn Award 2019 | Best Science Fiction Film | Nominee | |
| AACTA Awards 2018 | Best Sound | Will Files, P.K. Hooker, Andrew Ramage | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 2018 | Best Production Design | Felicity Abbott, Katie Sharrock | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 2018 | Best Visual Effects or Animation | Kate Bernauer, Aevar Bjarnason, Matt Daly, Jonathan Dearing, Angelo Sahin | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 2018 | Best Hair and Makeup | Larry Van Duynhoven, Chiara Tripodi | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 2018 | Best Original Screenplay | Leigh Whannell | Nominee |
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SXSW Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Audience Award – Midnighters | Leigh Whannell | Winner |
AACTA Awards
7 nominations
| Best Editing | Andy Canny | Nominee |
| Best Hair and Makeup | Larry Van Duynhoven, Chiara Tripodi | Nominee |
| Best Original Music Score | Jed Palmer | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | Leigh Whannell | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Felicity Abbott, Katie Sharrock | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Will Files, P.K. Hooker, Andrew Ramage | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects or Animation | Kate Bernauer, Aevar Bjarnason, Matt Daly, Jonathan Dearing, Angelo Sahin | Nominee |
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
2 nominations
| Best Actor | Logan Marshall-Green | Nominee |
| Best Wide Release | Leigh Whannell | Nominee |
Saturn Award
1 nomination
| Best Science Fiction Film | Nominee |