The 90s VR Movie: The Lawnmower Man had a lot to answer for
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the wave of straight to video Virtual Reality films that followed in the wake of The Lawnmower Man in the mid to late ’90s…
The idea of virtual reality worlds has been something of a sci-fi staple for many decades. Cronenberg toyed with the concept in
Videodrome. Philip K Dick’s classic short story,
We Can Dream it For You Wholesale was adapted to the big screen as
Total Recall. However, during the video game boom of the early 90s, alongside a progressive wave of developing CGI technology, VR became immensely popular, with everything from naff TV game shows, to movie concepts.