Malevolent robot stories used to be more about brawn than brain — so it was a genuine shock for audiences in 1968 when the sentient HAL-9000 computer calmly said, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't ...

A throwaway line from this hard sci-fi film continues to terrify and endure because of the underlying horror behind it.

Douglas Rain, the actor who provided the creepy, chilling voice of the HAL computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Sunday in Stratford, Ontario, the BBC reported. He was 90. Rain was a ...

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