“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Even if you’venever seen the movie, you know the voice. Other WRAL Top Stories HAL 9000, the seemingly omniscient computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” ...

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

Douglas Rain, who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario but was perhaps most famous for one faceless movie role — the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s ...

Move over HAL, Clarissa is here. It’s been 36 years since Stanley Kubric introduced movie goers to the HAL 9000, the intelligent computer in the 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now Xerox and NASA ...

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 ...