This week on Just The Thing, we're heading into the low-budget wasteland of early '90s straight-to-video sci-fi as we drop John Carpenter's shapeshifting nightmare into Circuitry Man and its bonkers sequel, Circuitry Man II: Plughead Rewired.
Joel and Chris explore these forgotten cyberpunk curios, discussing killer cyborgs, brain-addling biochips, post-apocalyptic world-building, and why low-budget sci-fi so often punches well above its weight. Along the way, they celebrate the weird charm of direct-to-video cinema and ask the question that really matters: what happens when a creature that can become anyone encounters a world obsessed with replacing humanity with technology?
Come with us on a journey back to a time when the choice of which movie to rent was based solely on an imaginative VHS cover.
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