10 Horror Movie Robots That Scared Us Out Of Our Minds

As early films like Metropolis proved, humanity always had a deep-rooted fascination and fear of robots. Even though these machines are designed for our convenience, we still get freaked out by their mechanical movements, humanoid features, and emotionless voices.

That's why it's no surprise that killer androids, sinister cyborgs, and adversarial AIs play a major part in sci-fi horror. Whether these automatons kill due to a programming error or because they were designed that way, there are few things scarier than a robot that will stop at nothing to destroy you.

These metallic foes are terrifying, not just because of their inhuman strength and durability, but their lack of compassion. They cannot be bargained with through reason or empathy. As they maim and mangle their victims, they don't feel anger, pity, or pleasure. Instead, they feel nothing.

But the scariest thing about these murder machines is the fact that they're not completely in the realm of fiction. Even though there's no evidence that real-life robots would deliberately harm us (yet), it's far from an impossibility.

Some of the robots on this list may not be iconic or even feasible, but there's no question they left us scared out of our minds.

Hardware takes place in world ravaged by radiation, forcing scavengers to sell scrap metal to survive. When a nomad called Moses activates the head of a military robot, it assembles a new body, and goes on a killing spree.

Upon investigation, Moses and his friends discover the government created this machine, which is called the M.A.R.K. 13, to prevent overpopulation.

Although there's no short supply of murderous robots in movies, M.A.R.K. 13 is among the few who intends to slay every human on Earth single-handedly. Even his name reflects this, since he's named after the biblical passage, Mark 13:20, which reads "No flesh shall be spared".

Despite his malicious intentions, you'd assume M.A.R.K. 13 isn't evil, since he's only carrying out his programming. However, this insect-like mechanoid seems to go out of his way to inflict pain. Rather than murdering his victims with surgical precision, he drills holes in their flesh and eyeballs, forcing them to experience unimaginable agony before perishing. He also seems to have a genuine disdain for humans, since he pummels and eviscerates his victims' bodies, even after he's slaughtered them.