The trend is not entirely new. Because Terminator, 2001 or Alien already talked about it in a more or less explicit way. But artificial intelligence stands out today as the most prominent villain in Hollywood cinema. In front of the camera (fronted by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 7, the center of the plot of The Creator), as well as behind it, because its use was one of the reasons for the writers’ and actors’ strike in 2023.
And we find it today in Evil AI (is afraid In the original version, a play on words that could not cross the Atlantic), a new horror production by Blumhouse, the title of which is not a mystery about what awaits the main characters: a family chosen to test a revolutionary digital assistant. Who anticipates their needs so much that they become a danger to others and to themselves.
Directed by Chris Weitz (… The Creator) and James Moran (director of Night Swim ), the evil AI joins M3GAN in Jason Blum’s productions revolving around artificial intelligence. And it confirms his desire to scare us with things that are familiar to us (or can become so).
formula specialist “Mini budget for maximum benefit”Today, it’s immersing John Cho (Star Trek) and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant) in a pitch reminiscent of the 1999 Disney TV movie Home of the Future. And more disturbing, no doubt.
Even if you look at your family’s helper differently after this film, which also features David Dastmalchian, a horror regular who has recently appeared in The Bogeyman, The Last Voyage of Demetrius, or Late Night with the Devil, released straight to video. Suffice to say, things go wrong when he’s around, and this new opus should only prove that.
Source: Allocine
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