https://vo.rs/tags/the-terminator/Latest from the The Terminator desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-terminator-the-slasher-film-disguised-as-sci-fi/<p>The reputation of <em>The Terminator</em> has been distorted by its own sequel. Because <em>Terminator 2</em> arrived in 1991 as a landmark of computer imagery and set-piece spectacle, the 1984 original gets remembered as its rougher prototype, a low-budget sketch of the blockbuster to come. Watch it again cold, though, without the sequel&rsquo;s gloss laid over it, and a different film appears. James Cameron, working with roughly six million dollars, did not make a small science-fiction epic. He made a horror film, and a very pure one, that happens to be wearing a science-fiction costume.</p>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000