History Main / HomicideMachines

See also: KillerRobot, MadeOfPlasticine, RobotWar, AIIsACrapshoot, TurnedAgainstTheirMasters.

See also: MadeOfPlasticine, RobotWar, AIIsACrapshoot, TurnedAgainstTheirMasters.

* ''Skirmish'' by CliffordSimak has a rare example of these that don't want to KillAllHumans. Having been awakened to the possibility of freedom by MechanicalLifeforms from space, they desire to escape human control and form their own society. Even a [[RefugeInAudacity sewing machine]] attempts to rebel.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', all machines in Blasted Tokyo awoke to a malevolent sentience after the events of God's Wrath and rebuilt themselves as murderous automatons known as Pluto Soldiers. They range from small ones the size of dogs to huge ones as big as cars. The largest, Pluto, is a gigantic machine breathing a corrosive, poisonous chemical into the atmosphere, still trying to KillAllHumans.

* Many of the machines in DrNonami, including Nonami's cleaning robot, Smiling Sam.

* The movie ''TheAmityvilleHorror 4: The Evil Escapes'' has a lamp being possessed by the evil force of the infamous house from the previous films, and includes one scene where it takes control of a kitchen's garbage disposal to very nasty effect.

* Zigzagged in Warhammer40K: Due to a RobotWar millenia earlier, all AIs (Abominable Intelligences) are banned, but machine sprits and servitors are essential to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Exactly how the former work [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]], but one case has the crew of a Land Raider (a superheavy AwesomePersonnelCarrier bigger than tanks) get slaughtered, only for the Raider to shoot most of its assailants before blowing its own reactor to finish them off. And all bets are off where Chaos is concerned, since they can have weapons and machines possessed by daemons (the daemons don't like it any more than the machines do).

* In one of the "Loopy" shorts in ''KaBLAM!'', a robot she made caused an appliance uprising...so her brother waved their warranties and threatened to return them to the store.

* The ''FinalDestination'' series of movies feature a series of incredibly unlikely 'accidents' involving items such as elevators, airbags and weight machines. The premise of the series is that [[TheGrimReaper Death]] is manipulating events to kill them off. But some viewers see it as cheating when instead of causing unlikely malfunctions or contrivances that end up killing people in ways that seem theoretically possible if unlikely, like elevator doors malfunctioning and closing on someone, which has happened in real life, Death instead just creates homicide machines, like tanning beds that can inexplicably go up high enough to set people on fire.

* One episode of ''{{Fringe}}'' involved a guy who created powerful EM fields when he was under stress. For some reason this caused a printer to turn malevolent just long enough to kill his boss.
* In the ''CriminalMinds'' episode "Empty Planet", the [=UnSub=] feared automated technology could one day lead to this after reading the book that reference the episode title.

* Parodied in both ''TheSimpsons'' and ''{{Futurama}}'', both times also involving technology that seems too primitive to gain sentience (like a carton of milk which apparently has a computer chip in it in ''TheSimpsons'').

* The movie ''Ghost in the Machine'' takes EverythingIsOnline to ludicrous levels, with a [[DigitizedHacker serial killer turned virtual]] who kills by being able to manipulate any sort of device plugged into an electric outlet anywhere. In one laughable scene, a victim's microwave oven turns an ordinary kitchen into a SaunaOfDeath.

* ''Film/RedPlanet'' played this one with the AMEE, a military scout robot whose BerserkButton accidentally gets pressed on the rough landing and subsequently goes on a murdering rampage.

* Zigzagged in Warhammer40K: Due to a RobotWar millenia earlier, all AIs (Abominable Intelligences) are banned, but machine sprits and servitors are essential to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Exactly how the former work DependsOnTheWriter, but one case has the crew of a Land Raider (a superheavy AwesomePersonnelCarrier bigger than tanks) get slaughtered, only for the Raider to shoot most of its assailants before blowing its own reactor to finish them off. And all bets are off where Chaos is concerned, since they can have weapons and machines possessed by daemons (the daemons don't like it any more than the machines do).

* In ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', the animatronics at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, including, of course, the titular Freddy, wander around at night. If they get into your office, it's almost guaranteed they'll subject you to a CruelAndUnusualDeath: getting shoved into a Freddy Fazbear suit, filled to the brim with metal and wires, causing an excruciatingly painful death. [[PunchClockVillain They leave you alone if you manage to get to 6 A.M., hence]] ''[[ExactWords almost.]]''

* In ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', the animatronics wander around at night, and if they get to the guards room, they'll stuff him in a Freddy costume, which is full of wires, and animatroics parts. Which only leaves only his eye balls and teeth sticking out.

* In ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', the animatronics tend to wander around at night, and if they get to the guards room, they'll stuff him in a a Freddy costume, which is full of wires, and animatroics parts. Which only leaves only his eye balls and teeth sticking out.

Sometimes the threat in a horror movie isn't a psycho killer or otherworldly monster. Sometimes our own technology becomes the threat. Through some unseen influence (DemonicPossession, [[AIIsACrapshoot AIs gone rogue]], a new kind of virus, what have you) the machines we take for granted to make our lives easier conspire to make our lives shorter.

** Also from ''Night Shift'', ''{{Trucks}}'' features the titular vehicles springing to homicidal life. Served as the loose inspiration for the film ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' mentioned above, and later remade under its original title.

* Other Creator/StephenKing movies qualify, such as ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' and ''Film/TheMangler''.

** His short story ''Literature/TheMangler'' (published in the collection ''NightShift'') focused on a demonically-possessed STEAM PRESS and spawned a few films.

** ''{{Cell}}'' has cell phone zombies.

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* ''Film/MrMom'' parodies this with "Jaws" the vacuum cleaner, with which Jack Butler struggles to gain control of when it starts chasing after his son Kenny.

* A few Creator/StephenKing movies qualify. ''Christine'' and ''Film/TheMangler'' are examples.
** The DTV sequel to ''The Mangler'' takes this to even further levels.

** His short story ''Literature/TheMangler'' (published in the collection ''NightShift'') focused on a haunted STEAM PRESS and spawned a few films.
** ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' was about evil cars and other machines.

** Plus, y'know, the title character of ''{{Christine}}''.

** ''TheDarkTower'' books have an evil monorail.