Virtual Reality Movies
Virtual Reality is a common theme in cyberpunk movies. VR is often used to question whether we truly “know” whether our perceptions are real or not. In other cases , we find VR movies used as a way to allow sentient programs to interact with humans. Here’s the list of cyberpunk VR movies that I’ve reviewed so far:
- Andoromedia
- Avalon
- Avatar (Cyber Wars)
- eXistenZ
- I.K.U.
- Lawnmower Man
- Matrix
- Matrix Reloaded
- Matrix Revolutions
- Menno's Mind
- Natural City
- Nirvana
- Reboot
- Serial Experiments: Lain
- Sexual Matrix - It's NOT Cyberpunk
- Strange Days
- The Thirteenth Floor
- Total Recall
- Tron
- Videodrome
- Virtual Girl
- Virtual Obsession (Host)
- Virtuosity
- Webmaster
- X-Files: Kill Switch (Episode 11, Season 5)
Comments
June 7, 2008
Trevor said:
I’ve been trying to figure out a movie for a long time, I don’t know the name of it, only that it was early 90’s probably, and the plot is something about a virtual reality corporation that provides the VR goggles for people to have sex in their mind, and this company used a palm tree as their signature emblem. Any ideas?
June 8, 2008
Stormtrooper of Death said:
The movie you seek is a television series of the 90s, called ‘Wild Palms’
June 9, 2008
Ali said:
Hi,
May be this is not related to your post. but i needed help and i am desperate.
long time ago i saw a movie where a girl goes into some festival or carnival or may be a shop. She was told about a company’s latest invention, a computer program that allows you to create your own virtual boyfriend. The girl then creates a guy the perfect one. and leaves the booth
the next day the boy comes to life or some similar thing happens i dont remember the plot exactly. can any one help me find this movie?
July 18, 2008
Lindsey said:
I think the movie your thinking of is Demolition Man maybe with sandra bullock they put little helmets on and never touch each other but are having sex
August 8, 2008
Magik said:
I really need help finding a movie as well. It revolves around an addictive “FPS” type virtual reality, where digital soldier do their best to blast each other away.. I believe dying in the game meant dying in real life, or something of that nature.. I forgot the vast majority of the plot, but I remember really liking it, so I’m trying to think of the name. Any ideas?
Zhal said:
@Magik:
Hmm, sounds like Avalon. It’s in the list.
August 15, 2008
MushyBrain said:
Hi, I’ll join in on asking for help.
The film I keep remembering is about a VR machine for sex ^^
There is a scene where this man in a red lycra suit sits in this VR chair/bed, and he’s in this office where the secretary all of a sudden gets raunchy and starts having sex a bit roughly, then it cuts back to the man in the VR chair and he has a big boner =/. After that I can remember he’s getting fu**ed so fast that he has a heart attack. For some reason, I kept thinking that man was Colm Meaney, but I’m pretty sure it’s not now ^^. I also kept thinking the film title was something like “Manual 5″, but there’s nothing like that in relation to this.
Another possible scene in the film is where there’s a man in a shower block and a pair of nuns appear, then shortly leave. I’m not sure about that one but I have a faint memory of it.
Oh and this was back in the early 90’s.
Any help is greatly appreciated. For quite some time, not knowing the title of it has been getting on my nerves ^^
September 13, 2008
Chromax said:
Hey I was wondering if you guys can help me out. When i was young i remember watching this movie where these kids would go to an arcade or whatever and there was this black machine that was a virtual reality machine and for some reason it went hay wire and started killing of the players or something. Can’t really remember but it may of been from the 90’s.
November 28, 2008
kabukiman said:
About 10 years ago I saw a cartoon. The heroes were a fat guy who was all time in VR posing as a samurai and the heroine was a beautiful companion of a chief of the mob (who was always abusing her) who posed as a gueisha. They started (the fat guy and the beautiful girl) to fall in love without ever meeting in the real world, and the chief of the mob was furious with her spending all that time in the VR. The gangster discovered her “affair” and decided to eliminate the fat guy but he managed to upload his mond to the net, and she made the same, leaving their bodies behind as dead shells.
November 30, 2008
Operator IV said:
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimock
Operator IV said:
Sorry, I was replying to Chromax
>Hey I was wondering if you guys can help me out. When i was young i
>remember watching this movie where these kids would go to an arcade
>or whatever and there was this black machine that was a virtual reality
>machine and for some reason it went hay wire and started killing of the
>players or something. Can’t really remember but it may of been from the 90’s.
>
Maybe it’s Bishop of Battle?
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/bishopofbattle/
January 4, 2009
Huckabees said:
Hi Ali, I’ve been looking for the exact same film and am proud to tell you that its a 1999 film called “Virtual Sexuality” in which a girl creates her virtual ‘dream/perfect guy’ at a science fair then he comes to life because of a random accident which infuses bits of her personality in him.
February 27, 2009
Moviehunter said:
I need help finding a movie. It explored the relationship between the creator of a virtual reality game…he gets obsessed with his characters…the struggle for him is to get out of that world…eventually, his characters help him get out or the characters themselves break free…I don’t know if I got the plot right but I remember watching this film in absolute amazement!
I know my pointers are vague but can somebody help me out?
March 29, 2009
Nothke said:
Hay, I really need the name of this film!!!
About, lets say 10 years ago, I was a kid, but its increadible how I remember details, I watched a film on TV (not sure if its film for TV or a real film, or even an episode of a serie), but it is about a teenager living in a small American town who makes like I think electric chairs, or something like that, and he wins on a competition. Then later he gets a top secret virtual reallity game on a CD from government for him to test it. The game is FPS and looks actually totally photorealistic (it is displayed on a PC and on normal CRT screen like a normal game, not on VRheadset). Then he can chose from 3 towns he can play in, and accidentally, he can play in his own town. The objective of the game is to kill a girl he chooses (out of 3), and the game is divided into 3 parts, killing the victim (without anyone seen), disposing the body, and hiding all evidence. He completes the game throught the whole film, and he burries the victim in a tunnel he spoted while walking in real life. The film ends with a dog sniffing, and discovering the body of the girl in real life!!!
The film was great for me because it predicted the photorealistic games and he hid in the game, and used cover, avoiding being seen from neighbours, sneaking behind people, like games of today! Also it is one of the creepiest films I watched!!
I know the plot remindes of Brainscan, but its not it I think!!! I saw the trailer and it doesnt look like the film I saw at all!
April 8, 2009
paul wise said:
a new aspect of mathematical method
paul wise said:
think you
July 17, 2009
Daniel said:
I think dark city is missing on the list (=
Trevor Goodchild said:
Word. i just saw Dark City last night, a good film.
I am glad someone answered my query with Wild Palms, as that was what i was trying to remember at the first post of my thread. Thanx @ Storm Trooper of Death.
I watched the first episode and it was a little slow for my taste..guess memories are sometimes better than the real thing. Lawnmower man is still the shit tho
July 18, 2009
Mogambo said:
Hi
I saw a movie long back. I cant remember neither the title nor the story…It is about a computer program which will brainwash the person who sees it running. One scene I remember. A guy in office was watching this when the secretary or someone walked in. This guy starts having sex with her under some impulse. When he regains control he sees the girl trying to gather all her clothes and get out. Any one knows this movie ?
Thanks
August 12, 2009
B said:
I saw a movie a long time ago, I vaguely remember it. There is the company who has a virtual reality town running. The company was in modern or future times but the virtual reality was set in olden days. Anyways the characters in the virtual reality start to realize that they are not in the real world and find that if they kill someone who came in via the virtual reality they got to take their place in the real world. Anyone happen to know which movie this?
Thanks.
August 13, 2009
downer said:
Sounds like “The Thirteenth Floor”
August 31, 2009
The Projectionist said:
I’m trying to find out the name of this movie: It did well at sundance a few years ago, I think it may have been in spanish with english subs. It was about this kid who is some kind of futuristic virtual machine operator. and he had to do something that involved him sneaking to use some kind of “dream” machine or something? I never saw the movie only the trailer. When he did his job he was strapped into a bunch of gadget in a blacklit room with a bunch of other operators. And I think he had a love interest.
-thx guys!
September 6, 2009
Kamakize88 said:
Hey I got a question Does anyone or has anyone seen the movie I am about 2 describe( If so please give me the name of it). In the movie this kid maybe about 17 or 18 the most, works at this shop in miami it looks like but its like a surf board shop. Any ways his friend comes by with a virtual reality game if I remember right and the game was called shockwave or something like that. anyways in the close to end point I guess something in the game is trying to kill us humans or something like a weather device the government created and the biggest part I remember more is thatthe kid is in the virtual reality game trying to fight off the device and save the world and the device or whatever deceives the kid making him think that he beat it but in actuality the kid is still in shockwave
November 4, 2009
bob said:
did u ever find out the title of this movie? I’m looking for the same exact one!!
bob said:
did u ever find out the title of this movie? I’m looking for the same exact one!!
please help
November 19, 2009
SlicerV said:
left out one the real adventures of jonny quest the one with questworld