YMMV / Ghost in the Machine

The film:

• Complete Monster: Karl Hochman is known as The Address-Book Killer for his predilection of obtaining victims from stolen address books. While driving to kill a victim, Karl is injured in a car accident and a freak electrical surge when he is hooked up to machinery results in his soul becoming digitized. Now free to continue his spree, Karl uses his powers to scan address books digitally and murder everyone on the lists. Now able to manipulate any electrical appliance, Karl initiates electrical fires, causes explosions, and uses electrical shocks to claim new victims with seemingly no way to escape him.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Chris Mulkey and Karen Allen, who played the leads in this horror flick, both previously worked with director Ted Kotcheff and actor Brian Dennehy together in psychological thriller films released in 1982 for Orion Pictures. Mulkey played one of the Dirty Cop Mooks named Ward who's working for Dennehy's Big Bad character in First Blood, while Allen plays a cult member and lover of Dennehy's character's son in Split Image.
• Nightmare Fuel: The microwave scene. Microwaves usually have shielding that prevents the surrounding area, including the user, from lethal doses of radiation. What happens when Karl forces the microwave to stay on when the door is opened? Metallic objects become electrified, bananas turn into nausea-inducing mush, electrical appliances catch fire, cherries in a bowl melt into a black mass, and the poor sap who was trying to stop the microwave ends up having blotches form on his skin and explode into blood as he lays dying on the floor.

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