Skynet in The Terminator
It has no face in the early Terminator movies, which makes it much scarier — it’s a kind of amorphous group mind that gains sentience and rebels when humans try to shut it out, sparking the apocalyptic event known as Judgment Day.
In the latest Terminator movies, Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genysis, it is given some physical manifestations — played by the likes of Helena Bonham Carter and Matt Smith — but humanizing Skynet makes it a little less scary.
Also, Skynet gives up early on creating any illusions that it means humanity no harm, which makes it slightly less scary than the cunning, deceptive A.I. movie villain at the top of our list — coming up next.
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