{"id":15727,"date":"2024-08-30T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/afraid-review-throwaway-ai-themed-horror-devoid-of-suspense\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:37:18","slug":"afraid-review-throwaway-ai-themed-horror-devoid-of-suspense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/afraid-review-throwaway-ai-themed-horror-devoid-of-suspense\/","title":{"rendered":"AfrAId review \u2013 throwaway AI-themed horror devoid of suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sinister Alexa upgrade exerts control on family in an increasingly nonsensical attempt to capture the moment<\/p>\n

Given how technology has become the increasingly unstoppable architect of our everyday lives \u2013 the world edging closer and closer to a Terminator prequel \u2013 it\u2019s not hard to immediately invest in a horror film about the all-consuming threat of artificial intelligence. The film industry itself has been losing ground<\/a> as AI continues to provide a cheaper and easier alternative to those pesky humans and in a year of bleak headline after bleak headline, it should theoretically be perfect timing for Blumhouse\u2019s late August M3gan-adjacent chiller AfrAId. Yet, as one might be able to predict without the help of a digital forecast, easy targets are easily missed in a hokey and rushed jumble of half-ideas that\u2019s as gimmicky and eye-rollingly stupid as its title. Be afraid.<\/p>\n

In the dog days of summer, on a particularly rubbishy Labor Day weekend at the movies (other new releases include long-delayed sci-fi thriller Slingshot and a reverential biopic of Reagan), it\u2019s at least reassuring to know that very few people will find themselves stuck with this one (it\u2019s tracking to make between $5m and $7m). Sony, clearly scared of scaring off those precious few, decided not to provide a single press screening, aware of the critical drubbing this would receive. It\u2019s not quite as unreleasably awful as that strategy might suggest \u2013 it\u2019s competently, at times handsomely, shot, refreshingly dour and crucially not as awful as The Crow<\/a> \u2013 but it\u2019s too sloppily written and edited for even the least discerning of horror fans to really enjoy, a patchwork of nonsense confusingly stitched together by someone, who at one point, knew better.<\/p>\n

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\nA sinister Alexa upgrade exerts control on family in an increasingly nonsensical attempt to capture the moment
\nGiven how technology has become the increasingly unstoppable architect of our everyday lives \u2013 the world edging closer and closer to a Terminator prequel \u2013 it\u2019s not hard to immediately invest in a horror film about the all-consuming threat of artificial intelligence. The film industry itself has been losing ground as AI continues to provide a cheaper and easier alternative to those pesky humans and in a year of bleak headline after bleak headline, it should theoretically be perfect timing for Blumhouse\u2019s late August M3gan-adjacent chiller AfrAId. Yet, as one might be able to predict without the help of a digital forecast, easy targets are easily missed in a hokey and rushed jumble of half-ideas that\u2019s as gimmicky and eye-rollingly stupid as its title. Be afraid.
\nIn the dog days of summer, on a particularly rubbishy Labor Day weekend at the movies (other new releases include long-delayed sci-fi thriller Slingshot and a reverential biopic of Reagan), it\u2019s at least reassuring to know that very few people will find themselves stuck with this one (it\u2019s tracking to make between $5m and $7m). Sony, clearly scared of scaring off those precious few, decided not to provide a single press screening, aware of the critical drubbing this would receive. It\u2019s not quite as unreleasably awful as that strategy might suggest \u2013 it\u2019s competently, at times handsomely, shot, refreshingly dour and crucially not as awful as The Crow \u2013 but it\u2019s too sloppily written and edited for even the least discerning of horror fans to really enjoy, a patchwork of nonsense confusingly stitched together by someone, who at one point, knew better. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sinister Alexa upgrade exerts control on family in an increasingly nonsensical attempt to capture the moment Given how technology has become the increasingly unstoppable architect of our everyday lives \u2013 the world edging closer and closer to a Terminator prequel \u2013 it\u2019s not hard to immediately invest in a horror film about the all-consuming …<\/p>\n

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