A film that truly terrified me as a child. I wasn't allowed to watch it but I did anyway! The scenes of the robot controlled future in particular haunted me.
I had heard the stories about how Cameron came up with it and also about how Arnold was not the first choice as the Terminator, they wanted OJ Simpson and someone else but I forget who it was.
RE: Michael's Sci-Fi/Horror Lase-O-Rama: The Terminator (1991, Hemdale Home Video)