Dark City 1998 has Connections to the Matrix, Hellraiser, Dune 1984, etc.

Dune 1984 spacing guild walking ppl bald in black leather  

***Careful, two spoilers below for Dark City, The Matric, Inception - maybe more***

Order of movies below in bold and italics... each influenced by the ones before it, right?

Hellraiser Cenobites first eh  ? The little kid in Dark City same as the little kid turned Chatterer Cenobite… same mouth teeth chattering. I think it was very intentional.   "Hellraiser: Hellbound indicates that Chatterer opened the box while still a young boy." via wikipedia. 

 That French movie was before dark city.  City of Lost Children, 1995.  Looking at it now, not a ton of darkly dressed folks but there is one part. The dark ambience and drabness and maybe other elements influenced Dark City I think. 

Dark City

The Matrix… alternate realities. Jumping rooftops  . “All the memories you need r in this syringe “… inject into head, just like "I know Kung Fu" training injected.   

Inception. The transforming city scenes. The dreamworld. The ending with the weird post-apocalyptic beach thing. 

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Harry Potter doors appear in walls? In DarkCity, Tuning (T-CHUning with the Brit accent) is used to create doors in walls several times. Reminds me of the run through the door in the train area of Harry Potter. 

Saw, jigsaw’s swirl symbol? In dark city, first murder lady had those marks. Cop says “got a jigsaw puzzle here” in drkcty. Saw came out in 2004. Yeah, I think it took things from DarkCity.   

Mr Brain or something cartoon. Ask kids. Looks like bulk w hi collar, big bald head. 

From Dark City. You can't tell me these aren't just like cenobites. 

Wow, rewatching Dune 1984, the similarities are also crazy. It started the whole black leather, tortured flesh thing it seems like. It influenced Hellraiser 1987 a lot. 

Hellraiser's Pinhead... chest similar to Baron Harkonen. Black robes similar to Spacing Guild of Dune, all that borrowed by that French film (City of Lost Children, AKA La Cité des enfants perdus 1995) and then Dark City's Others. 

City of Lost Children

And of course those guys above from City of Lost Children look a fair bit like the Borg from Startrek.