Is The Terminator scary?

Mildly — The Terminator works more through dread than through overt scares. As a artificial intelligence film, it scored 5.0/10 for fear, 8.0/10 for atmosphere, and 9.1/10 overall on Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

What are some films like The Terminator?

Films similar to The Terminator on Darkly include Brightburn (2019), Together (2025), Bone Lake (2024) — selected by cosine similarity on the 4-dimensional curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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artificial-intelligence

The Terminator

1984 · R · 1h 48m

Your future is in its hands.

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

Plot summary via TMDB

science-fictionhorroractionthriller