Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine (also known as Deadly Terror) is a 1993 horror/science fiction film from 20th Century Fox. The film is about a serial killer named Karl Hochman (Ted Marcoux), who is known as the "address book killer" due to his habit of stealing the address books of various people, from which he chooses his potential victims. At the beginning of the film, he is nearly killed by a head-on collision with a truck. At the emergency room he is pl... more

Ghost in the Machine (also known as Deadly Terror) is a 1993 horror/science fiction film from 20th Century Fox. The film is about a serial killer named Karl Hochman (Ted Marcoux), who is known as the "address book killer" due to his habit of stealing the address books of various people, from which he chooses his potential victims. At the beginning of the film, he is nearly killed by a head-on collision with a truck. At the emergency room he is placed in a MRI machine, when a surge, caused by an electrical storm, transfers his mind into a computer. As a network-based entity he plots to continue his killing spree, using the electrical grid, appliances, and the computer network. He obtains the address book of Terry Munroe (Allen) and begins to go through the list to kill off her friends. (In the film she has a son, Josh, played by Wil Horneff.) Aided by computer hacker Bram Walker (Mulkey), however, they manage to fight back and defeat the killer by introducing a computer virus that... less