Karl Hochman (Ted Marcoux) is a computer technician/hacker that has used his computer prowess to use address books in locatinh his victims and is known as, 'Address Book Killer'. One evening, Terry Munroe (Karen Allen) and her son Josh (Wil Harneff) are in a computer store to purchase some software for Terry's boss. The associate waiting on Terry shows her how an address book can be scanned and placed on the computer, thus eliminating the need to carry around a large, bulky address book. A page from Terry's own address book is scanned and following the purchase, Terry leaves her address book behind. Karl offers to return the address book to Terry, but while on his way to deliver the book, he's involved in a vehicle accident. Once at the hospital and in the process of undergoing an MRI, an electrical storm causes power surges and Karl dies while still in the machine, but his soul is trapped in the computer mainframe and Karl is free to continue his murderous ways, using Terry's address page as a starting point.

Very light on bonus features, this disc only offers the theatrical trailer, a TV spot and trailers for the following films; The Entitiy, Quicksilver Highway and Race With the Devil.

Ghost In the Machine is a horrible film, I give it some credit for the story and a few of the effects, but the film isn't anything that most genre fans haven't seen to some degree with other films. It's rather interesting to see the home computer world in it's infancy with everything being so new and impressive, but it also dates this film for the same reasons. The cast does well with what they had to work with, but the characters are very superficial and I didn't find myself having any strong feelings for any of them...the killer and the victims all blended together for me. The film works for me as a rental, but I'm sure the film may have hard-core fans that want this disc in their collection and this disc can be found at a relatively decent price, too.

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