ESCAPEMENT

ESCAPEMENT (vt The Electronic Monster; see Walt Lee for additional titles). Montgomery Tully, dir. UK: Anglo-Amalgamated, 1957.

Parish and Pitts note the film's early promise of the "theme of the computer taking over its creators' minds for its own ends," but this idea of "the masterful computer was short-circuited for a typical hero-bad guy premise." The machine can "retain fantasies and then project them back" into the brains "of mental patients under controlled situations." The bad guy attempts to use the machine to take over the patients (in Parish and Pitts under Escapement).