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Hardware
1990 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Richard Stanley
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
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If you end up liking GUNHED, some others that might be up your alley to look up: Hardware (1990), 964 Pinnocchio (1991), Testsuo: The Iron Man (1989), and Burst City (1982).
I just saw Burst City about a month ago; the other three you mention are on my list. Basically, I put together a big list of cyberpunk + "cyberpunk adjacent" movies and I'm must slowly working my way through the entire list. Not doing it strictly in chronological order, but in a loose sense I'm mostly working my way from older to newer... just allowing myself to jump around a little here and there.
I think the best and most under-appreciated bad robot movie was Hardware[1] (1990). A junked robot gets repaired by scrappers and starts trying to kill them with a poison injection. The nightmare future bad robot stuff won't be this big highly coordinated terminator mass military attack. It will be robots that go from being helpful to deciding they want to kill in a split second because of glitches, malware, or whatever.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_(film)