Apart from the lifelong trauma it gave us kids, let's just agree the special effects still hold up today and the people responsible for the enormous set design deserve massive praise
I watched this aged 5 or 6. For literal YEARS I had night terrors and lucid nightmares that I was getting sucked into that machine. I would sleepwalk too and more than once my parents found me outside my bedroom crying because I was being "squeezed". Thank you Sup3 for borking my childhood
Yeah, there was just something about that scene at the time. Maybe it had something to do with some primal, unconscious fear we all had about the computer age dawning, beneath the actual screams, the cramped space she was sucked into, etc. Whatever it was, it hit like a ton of bricks.
It scared all of us! Lmfao this was 2nd ONLY to dell frye's "creature". When I watched "the first" Dell frye's hulk scared me so much I legit pissed myself.
I agree she still scares me. I was seeing this appear on youtube and I was thinking to myself: "oh this used to scare me as a kid", I thought it would be different. But nope. Even though it doesn't scare me as much, it's still pretty scary nonetheless.
Honestly, the scene with her being forcefully clad in metal and her soon just going completely silent as it fully covers her was the most terrifying thing I watched and could think of as a kid, I used to ponder how it effected the mind and how horrible it would be, just goes to show how well the scene was out together even for its time.
@@daustin8888 I love that game and short novel, great story. AM is literally Humanity's biggest hater. Not the scariest I can think of but definitely something that I wouldn't wish upon any mortal being.
I’m really shocked by this! It is just a couple of shots, just a few seconds of footage. As a kid this scene both terrified and captured my imagination for years after.
Actually the lady that got turned into a cyborg did an excellent acting performance, the way she depicted the moment electric impulses was taking over her nerve system which she was trying very hard to resist till she got muted out.
Annie Ross is a jazz singer as well. She's a pretty good actress because she scared the crap out of me in this movie. She was actually quite attractive in her younger days.
I never knew why they simply didn't use Brainiac and Bizzaro. It wasn't like a rights issue was a thing, Warner Bros. owned and still owns everything Superman and all of DC Comics
Most people already mentioned this already but watching this scene of that woman getting "cybernised" scared the crap out of me as a kid. It was just really disturbing(especially for a kid) seeing a living person being warped and turned into a soulless zombie/ghoul like machine. Even as a kid you think the implication of it and how disturbing it seems. Seeing this scene again, I thought to myself: "oh this used to scare me as a kid". I didn't think it would still scare me, but it does. it's still pretty scary and disturbing. Obviously doesn't scare me as much, but it's still a freaky scene.
@@anindubuisi22Superborg! Superborg: ppl of Earth, you will be assimilated! Resistance is futile! Surrender or die! Kryptonite will not affect me, humans!
Welcome back to the weekly "support group for people who got got the $h|t scared out of them as kids by the scene in Superman III of a woman being turned into a computer." I see that Tom brought donuts, so thank you, Tom. Also, for anyone staying afterwards for the "Judge Doom turns out to be a toon" support group, I was told they'll actually be meeting in room "C", down the hall.
It’s so funny to watch this scene now as an adult. I can see the special effects aren’t terribly great and they’re kind of cheesy but I can still feel that sheer terror I felt as a child seeing that lady getting turned into a robot! 🤣 My gosh I loved Superman. Rest In Peace Christopher Reeve
This scene is a perfect example of mood whiplash. The entire movie, for the most part, is pretty light hearted and fun. But then we get to this part and the horror just kicks in at 11.
The transformation scene, ending with creepy as hell glazed silver eyes still haunts me in my 40’s. Looking back now the rest of it is a bit hokey, but it’s the sheer creepiness of that kind of body horror/unwilling transformation into something more and less human that’s impacting to a kid.
body horror has always affected me that way. and there was plenty of it to traumatize kids in the 70's and 80's. lol like me! i'm pretty impressionable, still, so it always bugged me and a lot of scenes I remember even after not seeing them for decades.
@@randolphsavage9760 Call the help desk. Oh to save time, tell them you did all the usual Tier 1 so you can get to the Tier 2 boss. "Yeah, I rebooted." "Clear the cache? I tried two browsers. Do they share cookies?"
things that scare the wholy hell out of you can still trigger those feelings at an adult. by the time S3 came out, I was 17, so I was pretty disappointed in how the writers basically made a joke of the movie. Now a movie that still makes me hide behind a pillow and it's theme song sends shivers up my spine is the original John Carpenter's Halloween!
Vera Webster is the first Borg Queen but she was fugly. Alice Krige from Star Trek First Contact and Voyager's series finale episode is hauntingly gorgeous and a real hot Borg is Jeri Ryan
I don't honestly believe that they could ever assimilate Kal-El, for the reason that their assimilation tubules couldn't probably go through his skin, unless the Borg had access to Green Kryptonite!
In Halloween 1988, my friend came to school in a Superman costume. He told me, "I am gonna fly in the air and put you near that tree." Batman was really popular in 1989.
This scared the hell out of me as a child! This is almost like the Hell Raiser 2 scene where the doctor gets turned into a cenobyte, although admittedly nowhere near as bad. But still, terrifying to watch as a kid!
I noticed that when Superman goes to chemical plant to take the acid, the scene shows that it's day, but in 1:09 the map shows that the Kansas region are already night.
only on accident but my god... watching this i recall the... i don't know... feeling?... that robot lady, that beam, supes struggling on the slippery floor, those wires wrapping supes face...
Seriously? There was nothing scary about this film. If anything I thought it was veering away slightly. I thought it was going to get into more comedy with Richard Pryor and all...
I love how Ross Webster asks Superman to help him from 1:26-1:27 like he was saying "I won't destroy the nations coffee crop and the oil tankers anymore."
The horrifying bit of the transformation of Vera into the cyborg is that they didn't use any music when it happened so you just had Vera's screams of agony and terror as the metal and circuitry wrapped around her until the final stage where the machine silenced her screams. One things for sure Vera would need years of therapy after that especially if she was aware of everything that happened while she was assimilated.
That's awesome you used the word "assimilated" cuz I wonder if Gene Roddenberry saw this scene and was inspired by it to create The Borg for Star Trek 🤔😳😱
I came here to comment how much this scene scared the ever living feces out of me only to find it did the same to everyone else. So glad I wasn’t alone!
I had to rewind and look at the moment she opened her eyes just to understand why it scared me so much. Damn my curiosity, I’ll have nightmares for weeks now.
@@shesajemstar2281 Shining isn't scary at all. You want scary Watch The Bionic Woman part 2 on the second season of The Six Million Dollar Man when Jaime is going flippo from bionic rejection because of an untreated cerebral hemmorage after her sky diving accident and it killed her. Lindsay Wagner who played The Bionic Woman Jaime Sommers has met legions of fans who tell her what happened to Jaime scares them especially those who grew up with both The Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman
For me, personally, the part where she is transformed into the cyborg scared me even more as a kid. The way she's screaming for help as she gets sucked into the computer, the wires shoot diagonally around her face, and then the metal pieces attach to her body just looked so fucking horrifying! As a kid, I had that scream of hers stuck in my head for a couple days, too.
It's amazing how goofy this looks as an adult, when it absolutely terrified me as a kid. I get why the faces melting in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the guy who chose poorly in Last Crusade scared me so much, but this? Man, it must be so hard for parents to figure out what will traumatize their kid and what won't.
They were actually supposed to be in this movie originally (along with Supergirl), but the studio rejected it for being "too complex." If I had to guess what that means, they were probably concerned that only comic geeks would like it, and wanted something that appealed to general crowds.
Brainiac was supposed to be the main villain. It was him that was supposed to cause Superman to go mad with the tainted kryptonite, and apparently Supergirl was going to cross over to help him recover from madness and take Brainiac down. Instead, we got what amounted to a half-assed Brainiac: A super smart robot named Rosie (Hanna Barbera and The Jetsons have sued for copyright infringement), created by PG Pryor the Apple Genius…yay!
I remember we rented this movie when I was 6 as I loved the first 2 Superman movies, but for whatever reason I watched this one by myself upstairs while everyone was downstairs. Oh my gosh this scene frightened me...but not enough to scream or run away...it just stuck in my memory for decades! Glad to know I wasn't the only one!
@@DysfunctionalBubble I was like 7 years old but I only thought it was gross but thats about it. The entire movie was indeed very shocking but I dont remember feeling scared specially nowhere near this scene in Superman 3 for sure, but Robocop did define me for life and its my favorite movie of all time along with Robocop 2.
@@tran0395 It was played up as "supercomputer that can do anything" which is honestly laughable, as it would only have the knowledge of those who created it, and to my knowledge, didn't know about Kryptonite but who knows.
It was all about the hilarious, crazy antics of the late Richard Pryor, and wonderful, additional guest stars such as Robert Vaughn, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Gaven O' Herlihy, and Annette O'Toole. Beautiful set work especially in this scene with the "Ultimate-Computer" in the cavern. Christopher Reeve, with his great stature, looking handsome as he always did as, "The REAL Man of Steel," and finally,......"NO CGI CRAP!!"😎
In my 40’s, I’m another kid that got terrified of this scene; but what’s more scary is that it’s relevant now it could actually happen with AI in Google’s center data control units
Those wires! O_O To this day, I still cannot help but wonder if Richard Lester knew that he was supposed to make a Superman movie and NOT a horror movie.
I thought the Voyager probe that returned to earth in Star Trek the Motion Picture had encountered the Borg and was sent back to merge with the creator.
I saw this movie as a kid. That lady being turned into a robot was absolutely horrifying. When she first opens her eyes and steps out with that crazy hair I was scared shitless.
Are you kidding me? Even back when I saw this in the theater as a kid...I was thinking it was pretty cheesy... What is wrong with you people? Get a hold of yourself.
@@atakdragonfly1675 People react to things differently. While I agree this movie is a very cheesy affair, the part where she transformed into a cyborg is pure Body Horror. The computer completely violates her and even clamps her jaws shut when she starts to scream...if that's not at least unsettling, I don't know what is.
@Dino Flagella Yes, a lot of people got scared when Vera turned into a robot since they were mostly scared of the closeup of the eye part from 0:16-0:18. For myself, I wasn't too scared of her being turned into a robot but, the only time I was scared was when I was watching this movie in my family room and I was alone in my family room while it was dark outside was the only time I was scared of her being turned into a robot while seeing the eye part from 0:16-0:18.
I remember as a child watching that scene scared the hell out of me, and when it came on TV from release I ran away hiding every time before the scene came. But thankfully over the years, I've come to realize that it's not real and to overcome my fear of it.
Wow, I hadn't seen this movie since the 80s! I was also a kid when it came out & I remember seeing it in the theater with my family (I think my uncle was with us). I don't remember much about this movie but THIS freaky scene! The robotic movement of the lady freaked me out! I had to hunt it down, it's been that long.
You know...I honestly had forgotten about watching this scene as a kid and literally having nightmares for months. Watching it again so many decades later, now I understand why...it's horrifying!
As cheesy as this movie was, I'll admit Superman defeating the computer with the acid was actually pretty clever, as well as a nice payoff to the earlier scene where the dangers of heated acid are explained.
Yep. This is something that both Superman 2 and 3 did well -- winning through a twist of cleverness rather than pure brawn. The finale to the Dr. Strange movie gave me a similar vibe, and I've come to the conclusion now that this is in large part why I've not cared for the final acts of most of the other modern comic book films. The means by which the hero ends up defeating the villain feels hollow and arbitrary because it's largely just a second-helping of the 2nd act's fight scene, albeit this time with the hero winning rather than losing.
It is clever and a good way to illustrate that intelligence, rather than just pure strength and power, can defeat an adversary. My only niggle in this scene is if the computer is capable of scanning and analysing the acid, and it is depicted as super powerful, why did the computer not decipher the acid was only harmless as long as it wasn't heated to a critical temperature?
Yes, I came here to confront the trauma. I watched this when I was four, and it deeply traumatized me. The idea that she could be pulled against her will, irreversibly changed, and become evil. In my mind the graphics were much better, and I don't remember her hair being that crazy. But even now the look on her face still gets to me. What also gets me is I wasn't sure if she was still there in that body or gone, to have yourself taken away was so scary, because where did you go? I'm glad I came back to see it all these years. The present me knows this is ridiculous, but the subconscious child in me still doesn't want to look. Even now I think it affects me by making me thing something bad could happen to me that I can't expect, and there's no going back.
I haven't seen this scene in nearly 30 years, but I'd have to say it holds up better than some of the more graphic depictions of Borg assimilation in Star Trek, and is more terrifying to boot. Not the greatest movie in this series, but this scene is pure gold.
@@gemlover7523 well, all I remember from the film was this scene, and actually my memories twisted to make superman the one who turned into a cyborg. I just remember feeling this dread for superman as he was being swallowed by the machine, and then for some reason I remember him being turned into the cyborg haha 😄 and that bubbling liquid didn't help anything too 😆
Man. I remember when I was really young, I thought that fight with Superman against that Robochick was awesome. In fact, I thought the whole sequence was cool back then. It's not so grand nowadays, but it's at least - still nostalgic.
It's amazing how that cyborg lady managed to scare a generation of children around the world with less than two minutes on screen
Absolutely 💯
Superman is kicking his butt
I was a morbid child, that scene never scared me.
I watched this when I was 7 and it kept me up for nights.
I found it arousing lol😅
If you watched this as a kid, it scared the living shit out of you. True story.
I was afraid of electronics for years.
Oh yes. I was 9 years old when this movie came out and saw it with a friend
No, I was slightly turned on by it.
It had the opposite effect on me. I saw this when I was eight or so and when I saw that lady get robotisized I thought "COOL!"
Totally agree with you there. This scene always scared the crap out of me.
Apart from the lifelong trauma it gave us kids, let's just agree the special effects still hold up today and the people responsible for the enormous set design deserve massive praise
I watched this aged 5 or 6. For literal YEARS I had night terrors and lucid nightmares that I was getting sucked into that machine. I would sleepwalk too and more than once my parents found me outside my bedroom crying because I was being "squeezed". Thank you Sup3 for borking my childhood
That was hilarious to read!
Yeah I too got scared as a kid seeing that. 2 mins of the fembot was all it took lol.
Yeah, there was just something about that scene at the time. Maybe it had something to do with some primal, unconscious fear we all had about the computer age dawning, beneath the actual screams, the cramped space she was sucked into, etc. Whatever it was, it hit like a ton of bricks.
SAME
Her scream and terrified face are frightening.
I feel your pain, I using to sleep waiting for her cyborg eyes raise up from the side of my bed.
I'm so happy to know I wasn't the only one terrified of this scene as a child lol
@Lawrence Rodriguez I was terrified lol
Yah. The cyborg transformation traumatized me as a kid
It scared all of us! Lmfao this was 2nd ONLY to dell frye's "creature". When I watched "the first" Dell frye's hulk scared me so much I legit pissed myself.
@@michaelmclaren1333 I seriously hide behind the couch to avoid this scene I get you
i do todo lolll
I remember watching this as a little kid in the 80's and being scared shitless of the cyborg lady! She still scares me!
I never forgot this scene, I was so afraid of that damned thing!
Same here!
You are funny.
Yes 10x worst than freddy
I agree she still scares me.
I was seeing this appear on youtube and I was thinking to myself: "oh this used to scare me as a kid", I thought it would be different. But nope. Even though it doesn't scare me as much, it's still pretty scary nonetheless.
Honestly, the scene with her being forcefully clad in metal and her soon just going completely silent as it fully covers her was the most terrifying thing I watched and could think of as a kid, I used to ponder how it effected the mind and how horrible it would be, just goes to show how well the scene was out together even for its time.
agreed. I felt the same way as a kid. Terrifying scene.
HATED this scene as a kid!! Terrifying!!
Straight Nightmare Fuel. Jesus in heaven this still keeps me up at night…😂
"I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"
@@daustin8888 I love that game and short novel, great story. AM is literally Humanity's biggest hater. Not the scariest I can think of but definitely something that I wouldn't wish upon any mortal being.
In retrospect the transformation happens so fast. But when I was a kid it felt like a torturous eternity!
And the transformation looks painful
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I’m really shocked by this! It is just a couple of shots, just a few seconds of footage. As a kid this scene both terrified and captured my imagination for years after.
Actually the lady that got turned into a cyborg did an excellent acting performance, the way she depicted the moment electric impulses was taking over her nerve system which she was trying very hard to resist till she got muted out.
Annie Ross is a jazz singer as well. She's a pretty good actress because she scared the crap out of me in this movie. She was actually quite attractive in her younger days.
I heard somewhere that the lady who played the cyborg also did some dubbing of the voice of Ursa in Superman II.
@@ianplunkett8013 She did indeed do some dubbing work for Sarah Douglas in Superman II.
@@ianplunkett8013 Yeah I think the director made a deal with her, do the dubbing uncredited and she'll get a part in Superman III.
Isn’t she Lex Luthor’s sister?
Closest we've ever gotten to Braniac.
It is brainiac, Kind of. original villain was supposed to be brainiac.
Krypton. SyFy
@@1Bruce93Wayne9 and Smallville.
@@kalvingoodlaxson True, but the Krypton version is much more Brainiac-y. Smallville's is like Spike with T-1000 powers.
I never knew why they simply didn't use Brainiac and Bizzaro. It wasn't like a rights issue was a thing, Warner Bros. owned and still owns everything Superman and all of DC Comics
This scene completely had me shook when I was a kid.. The way she painfully screamed. 😳 Sheesh! Great acting.. and then when it grabbed Superman..😩
Most people already mentioned this already but watching this scene of that woman getting "cybernised" scared the crap out of me as a kid. It was just really disturbing(especially for a kid) seeing a living person being warped and turned into a soulless zombie/ghoul like machine.
Even as a kid you think the implication of it and how disturbing it seems.
Seeing this scene again, I thought to myself: "oh this used to scare me as a kid". I didn't think it would still scare me, but it does. it's still pretty scary and disturbing. Obviously doesn't scare me as much, but it's still a freaky scene.
The scariest part of the lady being turned into a cyborg is how her screams are gradually strangled into silence as more of her body is transformed.
Yeah it creeps me out the transformation looks like it hurts like hell
If the computer had assimilated superman ohhhh lorddd
That's mainly what bothered me about it too.
@@anindubuisi22Superborg!
Superborg: ppl of Earth, you will be assimilated! Resistance is futile! Surrender or die! Kryptonite will not affect me, humans!
I didn't even realize that I remembered that scream until I heard it just now. It was etched deep in there!
Welcome back to the weekly "support group for people who got got the $h|t scared out of them as kids by the scene in Superman III of a woman being turned into a computer." I see that Tom brought donuts, so thank you, Tom.
Also, for anyone staying afterwards for the "Judge Doom turns out to be a toon" support group, I was told they'll actually be meeting in room "C", down the hall.
😭😭😭😭im one of em
Underrated comment.
Lies again? Soccer Club
Excuse me, can you point me in the direction for the room containing 'other people who actually like Superman III'?
Another scary disturbing scene was superman vs baddie superman in the junk yard.
It’s so funny to watch this scene now as an adult. I can see the special effects aren’t terribly great and they’re kind of cheesy but I can still feel that sheer terror I felt as a child seeing that lady getting turned into a robot! 🤣 My gosh I loved Superman. Rest In Peace Christopher Reeve
It isn't bad tho
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For the time, the special effects were good, but the tone is much goofier than I remember as well.
They are. This comment isn't.
This scene is a perfect example of mood whiplash.
The entire movie, for the most part, is pretty light hearted and fun.
But then we get to this part and the horror just kicks in at 11.
Slenderman has got NOTHING on this!
supes killing off clark earlier was super dark too
I always loved Reeve's facial expressions showing his effort when he returns back the laser beam to Vera.
To me it wasn't so much the robot as the transformation that freaked me out...
Love those 80s horror films- where someone is agonisingly transformed against their will into a nightmarish creature!
Super man
Think of the ultimate computer was the movie Earth version of Brainiac.
Like evil dead and dawn if the dead
miamimagicians magician miami Or the Thing, The fly, Leviathan, An American Werewolf in London, Pumpkinhead etc...
The 80s must have been an incredible decade to be alive.
They were
It was awesome to be a kid during the 80s.
The 80s was the last decade to know freedom.
Despite movies and scenes like this, the 80s were indeed incredible, especially for children (like I was).
Yeah, besides all the racism and homophobia
The transformation scene, ending with creepy as hell glazed silver eyes still haunts me in my 40’s. Looking back now the rest of it is a bit hokey, but it’s the sheer creepiness of that kind of body horror/unwilling transformation into something more and less human that’s impacting to a kid.
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Brother you and me both
Those silver eyes haunted me for years. It’s still disturbing today!
body horror has always affected me that way. and there was plenty of it to traumatize kids in the 70's and 80's. lol like me! i'm pretty impressionable, still, so it always bugged me and a lot of scenes I remember even after not seeing them for decades.
You can still see her pupils underneath those silver sclera lenses.
I've worked in IT for 20 years. This is pretty much what I deal with regularly.
I too hate it when supercomputers turn my co-workers into cyborgs.
LOL
Damn Windows Vista
@@randolphsavage9760 Call the help desk.
Oh to save time, tell them you did all the usual Tier 1 so you can get to the Tier 2 boss. "Yeah, I rebooted." "Clear the cache? I tried two browsers. Do they share cookies?"
so you've discovered too that your evil supercomputer can be defeated just by spiling some slurpee on it ?
Rest in Peace Robot Woman, Rest Annie Ross R.I.P
The scene terrified me...NOW and I'm a adult!!!
Diego Coronel same dude
Yet, you can't type like one.
things that scare the wholy hell out of you can still trigger those feelings at an adult. by the time S3 came out, I was 17, so I was pretty disappointed in how the writers basically made a joke of the movie. Now a movie that still makes me hide behind a pillow and it's theme song sends shivers up my spine is the original John Carpenter's Halloween!
it terrified me as a child.
but it makes me rock hard as an adult
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i'm screwed...
Annie Ross did a bang up job of scaring the hell out of people. She really was a fantastic actress as well as a jazz singer.
I remember as a kid having a big sofa, perfect for hiding behind as the cyborg woman freaked me out
This woman also dubbed Ursa in Superman II
I never forgot this scene, I was so afraid of that damned thing!
Ha. Ha me too. Had big nightmare about the cyborg. Too funny.. when the metal clings to her face
4 year old me agrees. I found the scene by searching 'superman christopher reeves scary scene'
Lee Thomas YOU AND ME BOTH! That robot woman scene scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
the way she just falls down and explodes like an Aqua Teen Hunger Force bit is absolutely sending me
The scene terrified me when I was little and it still does
I still have to watch this scene behind the couch curled in a ball
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same! I was looking for this exact scene cause I loved it/hated it haha!
I thought that scene only affected me when I was a kid. Good to know I was not the only one.
Me too! It's one of the reasons I haven't watched this in years.
We are The Borg, resistance is futile....
Your culture will adapt to service us..
Yep, forerunner of the BORG.
The first Borg assimilation 😆
Vera Webster is the first Borg Queen but she was fugly. Alice Krige from Star Trek First Contact and Voyager's series finale episode is hauntingly gorgeous and a real hot Borg is Jeri Ryan
I don't honestly believe that they could ever assimilate Kal-El, for the reason that their assimilation tubules couldn't probably go through his skin, unless the Borg had access to Green Kryptonite!
In Halloween 1988, my friend came to school in a Superman costume. He told me, "I am gonna fly in the air and put you near that tree." Batman was really popular in 1989.
This scared the hell out of me as a child! This is almost like the Hell Raiser 2 scene where the doctor gets turned into a cenobyte, although admittedly nowhere near as bad. But still, terrifying to watch as a kid!
I noticed that when Superman goes to chemical plant to take the acid, the scene shows that it's day, but in 1:09 the map shows that the Kansas region are already night.
Is there anyone here that didn’t come here to confront their trauma?
Those underwhelming effects though...
They look cheesy now, but damn did they work well for us when were kids seeing this for the first time.
This scene and *Mola Ram's* sacrificial heart ripping scene from _the Temple of Doom._
only on accident but my god... watching this i recall the... i don't know... feeling?... that robot lady, that beam, supes struggling on the slippery floor, those wires wrapping supes face...
Seriously? There was nothing scary about this film. If anything I thought it was veering away slightly. I thought it was going to get into more comedy with Richard Pryor and all...
@@atakdragonfly1675 ok grandpa when we watched this we were children between 4-8 years old
I love how Ross Webster asks Superman to help him from 1:26-1:27 like he was saying "I won't destroy the nations coffee crop and the oil tankers anymore."
The horrifying bit of the transformation of Vera into the cyborg is that they didn't use any music when it happened so you just had Vera's screams of agony and terror as the metal and circuitry wrapped around her until the final stage where the machine silenced her screams.
One things for sure Vera would need years of therapy after that especially if she was aware of everything that happened while she was assimilated.
In my theory I think she was aware it’s just the computer took control of her body and she wants it to stop
That's awesome you used the word "assimilated" cuz I wonder if Gene Roddenberry saw this scene and was inspired by it to create The Borg for Star Trek 🤔😳😱
@@DraylianKaiju there's a lot of similarities yeah. I have to wonder if Vera stayed a cyborg. What would she be like years later?
Gene ''make it soo''@@DraylianKaiju
@@DraylianKaiju Actually it was Captain EO that Roddenberry saw that inspired him to make the Borg.
As a kid this scene was pure nightmare fuel.
As an adult I'm like "Is this actually a scene from a movie or did the LSD just kick in?"
No it's the LSD kicking in bud 👍
@@dolphinsfan3245 That would explain why I'm seeing The Smurfs in the background. 😉😆
@@chaospoet 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 I see them too !
"We are borg, resistance is futile"
I came here to comment how much this scene scared the ever living feces out of me only to find it did the same to everyone else. So glad I wasn’t alone!
absilutely petrified me 30 yrs ago and still does!
shesajemstar mrs I think I love you 😍
Hahahaha
I had to rewind and look at the moment she opened her eyes just to understand why it scared me so much. Damn my curiosity, I’ll have nightmares for weeks now.
Deacon Kaine I don’t think I will ever find it not scary. The Shining isn’t as bad after you have watched that scene!! 😜
@@shesajemstar2281 Shining isn't scary at all. You want scary Watch The Bionic Woman part 2 on the second season of The Six Million Dollar Man when Jaime is going flippo from bionic rejection because of an untreated cerebral hemmorage after her sky diving accident and it killed her. Lindsay Wagner who played The Bionic Woman Jaime Sommers has met legions of fans who tell her what happened to Jaime scares them especially those who grew up with both The Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman
This scene terrified me when I was a kid. I'm 18 and the cyborg lady still freaks me out.
always thought she was freaky
For me, personally, the part where she is transformed into the cyborg scared me even more as a kid. The way she's screaming for help as she gets sucked into the computer, the wires shoot diagonally around her face, and then the metal pieces attach to her body just looked so fucking horrifying! As a kid, I had that scream of hers stuck in my head for a couple days, too.
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It's amazing how goofy this looks as an adult, when it absolutely terrified me as a kid. I get why the faces melting in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the guy who chose poorly in Last Crusade scared me so much, but this? Man, it must be so hard for parents to figure out what will traumatize their kid and what won't.
Lorelei's screaming is hilarious! 😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 Cracks me up so much just listening to her.
Congratulations, you are a sociopath.
RIP Annie Ross 1930-2020. She died today. She played Vera Webster, the lady that gets turned into the robot
Robert Vaughn was a couple of years younger than her but she outlived him.
She was also the voice of Ursa in Superman II
Every time I think about this scene, it leaves me with the same terrified nostalgia I have with Poltergeist. It's horrifying.
Brainiac and Bizarro should’ve been the main villains of Superman III.
They were actually supposed to be in this movie originally (along with Supergirl), but the studio rejected it for being "too complex." If I had to guess what that means, they were probably concerned that only comic geeks would like it, and wanted something that appealed to general crowds.
Brainiac was supposed to be the main villain. It was him that was supposed to cause Superman to go mad with the tainted kryptonite, and apparently Supergirl was going to cross over to help him recover from madness and take Brainiac down. Instead, we got what amounted to a half-assed Brainiac: A super smart robot named Rosie (Hanna Barbera and The Jetsons have sued for copyright infringement), created by PG Pryor the Apple Genius…yay!
I remember we rented this movie when I was 6 as I loved the first 2 Superman movies, but for whatever reason I watched this one by myself upstairs while everyone was downstairs. Oh my gosh this scene frightened me...but not enough to scream or run away...it just stuck in my memory for decades! Glad to know I wasn't the only one!
the computer is self aware and it creates robots. it must be Skynet.
Young Gladney could be but the woman must be the terminator' mom when this was made
Could be
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So Richard Pryor is John Connor?
Nah it's not Skynet it's a wannabe
I remember watching this scene and being absolutely terrified of the robot lady but when Superman showed I was honestly not scared after that.
Same here. Once Superman showed up, I knew everything would be ok
小さい頃に見てとても怖かった思い出。でも今でも見直す大好きな作品。
1:04- Interior leftovers from the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
This movie and robocop gave me nightmares throughout my early childhood. Thanks dad.
Alien was worse, I was 12 I think, then at 15 I saw a demonstration of pan and scan to widescreen...and again, no sleep.
ED-209 from Robocop was scary
This scene was about the scariest thing I ever watched as a kid. Even as an adult still gives me the creeps. I cant believe this made past the MPAA!!
@@DysfunctionalBubble haha I guess you edited your reply after a closer look to my avatar, didnt you?
@@DysfunctionalBubble I was like 7 years old but I only thought it was gross but thats about it. The entire movie was indeed very shocking but I dont remember feeling scared specially nowhere near this scene in Superman 3 for sure, but Robocop did define me for life and its my favorite movie of all time along with Robocop 2.
0:22 Scared the daylights out of any kid who saw this movie.
Annie Ross was scary as hell throughout the entire movie. Not only was she a very talented singer she was a terrific actress as well.
This scene perfectly shows Clark's intelligence, finding a way to defeat the computer that it would see as harmless.
I'm surprised that the computer could out power him with a few pieces of ribbon cable now.
@@tran0395 It was played up as "supercomputer that can do anything" which is honestly laughable, as it would only have the knowledge of those who created it, and to my knowledge, didn't know about Kryptonite but who knows.
ChatGPT was just a channel greeter on IRC & BBS's back in the day. Just scripts with a bit of Eliza intelligence thrown in.
It was all about the hilarious, crazy antics of the late Richard Pryor, and wonderful, additional guest stars such as Robert Vaughn, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Gaven O' Herlihy, and Annette O'Toole. Beautiful set work especially in this scene with the "Ultimate-Computer" in the cavern. Christopher Reeve, with his great stature, looking handsome as he always did as, "The REAL Man of Steel," and finally,......"NO CGI CRAP!!"😎
Growing up with these movies on TV I struggle to think of them as 'old' but this ones 40 years old and only 3 of the main cast are alive today.
Man, that robot lady terrified me as a kid. Couldn't get her scary face image out of my nightmares.
MT Imagine being turned into a robot
2:45 hey it’s the mood slime from Ghostbusters 2
The first Ghostbusters movie truly indeed was released one year later then.
Blood.
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Superman's greatest foes: tractor beams and electrical wires
This scene terrified me as a child, and I'm certain I'm not the only one.
Some people said that this was the closest thing to get a Brainiac in the franchise.
This was genuinely disturbing to watch as a kid. And I LOVED it!!
Maybe you, not me, I couldn't even tell you the plot of this movie, it was always the Superman movie I didn't watch for this scene alone!
In my 40’s, I’m another kid that got terrified of this scene; but what’s more scary is that it’s relevant now it could actually happen with AI in Google’s center data control units
This gave me nightmares as a kid
Those wires! O_O
To this day, I still cannot help but wonder if Richard Lester knew that he was supposed to make a Superman movie and NOT a horror movie.
lester the molester who destroyed the superman film in our childhood!
Xanatos21 the wires my worst nightmare
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I remember this scaring the sh** out of me as a kid, I'm 36 now, and it still scares the sh** out of me.
This scene was probably used as inspiration for the Borg later used in Star Trek The Next Generation and the concept of "assimilation"
I thought the Voyager probe that returned to earth in Star Trek the Motion Picture had encountered the Borg and was sent back to merge with the creator.
I saw this movie as a kid. That lady being turned into a robot was absolutely horrifying. When she first opens her eyes and steps out with that crazy hair I was scared shitless.
Are you kidding me? Even back when I saw this in the theater as a kid...I was thinking it was pretty cheesy... What is wrong with you people? Get a hold of yourself.
@@atakdragonfly1675 People react to things differently. While I agree this movie is a very cheesy affair, the part where she transformed into a cyborg is pure Body Horror. The computer completely violates her and even clamps her jaws shut when she starts to scream...if that's not at least unsettling, I don't know what is.
@Dino Flagella Yes, a lot of people got scared when Vera turned into a robot since they were mostly scared of the closeup of the eye part from 0:16-0:18. For myself, I wasn't too scared of her being turned into a robot but, the only time I was scared was when I was watching this movie in my family room and I was alone in my family room while it was dark outside was the only time I was scared of her being turned into a robot while seeing the eye part from 0:16-0:18.
It's the death howl that still gets to me
I remember as a child watching that scene scared the hell out of me, and when it came on TV from release I ran away hiding every time before the scene came. But thankfully over the years, I've come to realize that it's not real and to overcome my fear of it.
Always loved how the acid, the threat from beginning of the film ended up destroying threat from end of the film :)
It's that last horrified muffled scream that really got me as a kid.
Seriously, I would leave the room screaming every time this scene happened, it's the eyes! SO SCARY!!!!
Good to know everyone else was terrified of this transformation scene watching as a kid. Haha we all came back to see the scene
That robot lady made me hide behind the couch when I was a little fella and is still freaky to watch.... My 5 year old son didn't even flinch 😂🤣🤖
Wow, I hadn't seen this movie since the 80s! I was also a kid when it came out & I remember seeing it in the theater with my family (I think my uncle was with us). I don't remember much about this movie but THIS freaky scene! The robotic movement of the lady freaked me out! I had to hunt it down, it's been that long.
Truly underrated film
You know...I honestly had forgotten about watching this scene as a kid and literally having nightmares for months. Watching it again so many decades later, now I understand why...it's horrifying!
Reeves was a legend.
So anyone else get a little anxiety walking near electrical transformers to this day because of those damn things at 1:53? Asking for a friend...
"Superman III" has its flaws but boasts the single scariest sequence of the series.
It scared a lot of kids in the 80s
I always thought the acid looked like an ICEE drink you used to get at the movies. Still does!
She turned into a freaking cyborg!
How the Borg on Star Trek REALLY happened! :O
But Vera Webster didn't say "Resistance is Futile!"
@@Alondro77 But Q introduced Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew to the Borg in the episode Q Who
I remember watching this with my dad back when I was around four or so. The cyborg lady didn't scare me, but it always stuck with me.
When I was younger this terrified me. Now, not so much but that cyborg and her transformation remain unsettling.
3:02 is what happens when you try and load Windows 11 on a Commodore 64.
As cheesy as this movie was, I'll admit Superman defeating the computer with the acid was actually pretty clever, as well as a nice payoff to the earlier scene where the dangers of heated acid are explained.
Yep. This is something that both Superman 2 and 3 did well -- winning through a twist of cleverness rather than pure brawn. The finale to the Dr. Strange movie gave me a similar vibe, and I've come to the conclusion now that this is in large part why I've not cared for the final acts of most of the other modern comic book films. The means by which the hero ends up defeating the villain feels hollow and arbitrary because it's largely just a second-helping of the 2nd act's fight scene, albeit this time with the hero winning rather than losing.
It is clever and a good way to illustrate that intelligence, rather than just pure strength and power, can defeat an adversary. My only niggle in this scene is if the computer is capable of scanning and analysing the acid, and it is depicted as super powerful, why did the computer not decipher the acid was only harmless as long as it wasn't heated to a critical temperature?
This used to scare me when I was a kid how time of changed it was futuristic back then 😊😊
Of the franchises you'd expect Superman to crossover with, Hellraiser wasn't one of them.
When the Computer is destroyed she is turned back to normal .
maybe she was suppose to be a play on braniac??
Brainiac was in the original story. In it, he was in a love triangle with Superman and Supergirl
0:50 oh the sound effect of the 80s, 'O Weeeeee Woooow'
Yes, I came here to confront the trauma. I watched this when I was four, and it deeply traumatized me. The idea that she could be pulled against her will, irreversibly changed, and become evil. In my mind the graphics were much better, and I don't remember her hair being that crazy. But even now the look on her face still gets to me. What also gets me is I wasn't sure if she was still there in that body or gone, to have yourself taken away was so scary, because where did you go? I'm glad I came back to see it all these years. The present me knows this is ridiculous, but the subconscious child in me still doesn't want to look. Even now I think it affects me by making me thing something bad could happen to me that I can't expect, and there's no going back.
I haven't seen this scene in nearly 30 years, but I'd have to say it holds up better than some of the more graphic depictions of Borg assimilation in Star Trek, and is more terrifying to boot. Not the greatest movie in this series, but this scene is pure gold.
There’s a movie that honestly takes me back to my childhood and there’s a lot of nostalgia it’s definitely this
Oh crap! As a child I swear this was 10 times longer and 50 times more graphic!
What was it like?
@@gemlover7523 well, all I remember from the film was this scene, and actually my memories twisted to make superman the one who turned into a cyborg. I just remember feeling this dread for superman as he was being swallowed by the machine, and then for some reason I remember him being turned into the cyborg haha 😄 and that bubbling liquid didn't help anything too 😆
1:53 and 2:09 This is the sound before BATMAN (1989)
Epic sound
This scene scared the crap out of me as a kid!
Superman learns cable management the hard way!!!!
Man. I remember when I was really young, I thought that fight with Superman against that Robochick was awesome. In fact, I thought the whole sequence was cool back then. It's not so grand nowadays, but it's at least - still nostalgic.
To Will: It was the Borg of Star Trek to be. It was what Hawkins described poorly.
Yep. Cyborgization of the lady also horrified me as a child.
Same here! It's a only scene on that movie I remember decades later.