The Lawnmower Man (1992): Almost a Cult Classic

What do you get when you mix Stephen King’s name, Pierce Brosnan before Bond, and early-90s CGI? A techno-parable that wanted to be visionary but ended up looking like a rejected Doctor Who episode. The Lawnmower Man should have been the VR movie of its era; instead, it’s remembered for a monkey in a headset, a priest with a belt, and Jeff Fahey mowing down enemies in a fog machine haze.

The story leans on stereotypes, the pacing crawls, and the CGI buries Jobe’s transformation under neon polygons. And yet, with tighter focus and scarier visuals, this relic might have been a defining sci-fi of the 90s. Instead, it’s Almost a Cult Classic: one rewrite away from legendary.