Afraid
Directed by Chris Weitz
Written by Chris Weitz
Starring John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Keith Carradine, Havana Rose Liu
Release Date August 30th, 2024
Published August 30th, 2024
I was dreading seeing the horror-thriller Afraid. We’ve seen this concept about a killer Smart Home before. The idea dates back to the 1970s, no joke, look up the 1977 movie Demon Seed. Also, to borrow from South Parkfor a moment, ‘Simpsons’ did it.’ There is an epic Treehouse of Horrorssegment called Ultrahouse 3000 that debuted in 2001. That was more of a 2001: A Space Odyssey riff but it covered many of the same ideas and did so while incorporating horror and comedy.
So, yeah, Afraid didn’t feel fresh to me and the trailer did nothing to make me think it would be anything special. I felt as if I could have reviewed the movie without seeing it. Wow, was I mistaken. Afraid is terrific. The opening moments of Afraid are a grabber. The film takes images we’ve been seeing in our worst A.I nightmares and uses them as nightmare fuel. And that’s really at the heart of the movie, extrapolating a suspenseful horror scenario from what we currently know that A.I is capable of before expanding into the realm of A.I thought experiment, especially the kinds of things that real tech start-ups hope A.I will be capable of.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
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