Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is a trippy, sci-fi masterpiece that balances cutting edge special effects and an almost-psychedelic journey into the genesis of creation itself, but surrounding that aura is one of the most terrifying robots in film history.

HAL-9000 is designed to help a space stationÂ’s crew but if it flips, it can lock every door and leave you stranded in deep space, and it does...