Westworld (1973)

Directed by

Michael Crichton

Genre

dystopian film, Western film, horror film, action film, science fiction film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 1,472 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Guests visit a futuristic amusement park where they interact with lifelike androids in a Western setting. The androids begin to malfunction and turn against the humans.

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What happens

Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western film written and directed by Michael Crichton. The film follows guests visiting an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to malfunction. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in the amusement park, with Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park. The film was from an original screenplay by Crichton and was his first theatrical film as director, after one TV film. It was also the first feature film to use digital image processing to pixellate photography to simulate an android point of view. Critical reception was largely positive at the time and in retrospective reviews. Westworld was nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Saturn awards. Westworld was followed by a sequel, Futureworld (1976), and a short-lived television series, Beyond Westworld (1980). A second television series based on the film debuted in 2016 on HBO. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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