Here's a scenario for you: It's 1984 and you're seated in a dark theater. A beautiful woman has just appeared naked on screen for no particular reason other than that people enjoy seeing beautiful women naked, and now that same woman -- alas, fully clothed -- is on the run from an unstoppable killing machine, a marginally human force focused only on death. Her death. Shoot it, light it on fire, blow it up... it just won't stop. Merciless and unrelenting, its sole goal is to kill this particular woman, preferably in some unspeakably horrible way.

Now answer me this: Are you watching The Terminator or one of the Friday the 13th flicks?

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