A profanity-spewing smart home wreaks havoc on a bunch of millennials.
Yes, you read that right. That's the plot. Problem is, we're way past the 1980's and you can no longer make sarcastic movies. Therefore this kind of ridiculous plot has to be handled a) as a straight comedy / parody (check the imdb bottom 100, you'll find half a dozen of them) or b) as a straight horror film, which is doomed to fail, like Margaux. It's cringy the way they set up the characters (oh look, we're constantly smoking weed and talking about social media, just in case you missed that we're millennials). You can accurately guess which characters will die, even the order, before the action even starts.
A house that talks like Richard Pryor, making them food and even finding them weed, and nobody even questions for a second that there's something wrong, or at least unusual here? Some scenes must be seen to be believed, such as the artificial arms of the massage chair moving slowly to hug one of the kids, and him watching in horror, although he has more than plenty of time to simply get off the chair.
As a lover of bad movies, I have no problem accepting the premise that a smart home goes berserk and wants to kill people. But how did the AI build Indiana Jones-like traps into the house?
Of course, that kind of lack of logic is the least of the problems with this. It's not scary, it's not interesting, or amusing, just bad.
The only upside is, the makers of movies like The Bed That Eats, The Killer Sofa and The Refrigerator must be relieved, here's a movie that will top all the "killer household item" movies: A killer house movie.
Stay away. You've been warned.
Yes, you read that right. That's the plot. Problem is, we're way past the 1980's and you can no longer make sarcastic movies. Therefore this kind of ridiculous plot has to be handled a) as a straight comedy / parody (check the imdb bottom 100, you'll find half a dozen of them) or b) as a straight horror film, which is doomed to fail, like Margaux. It's cringy the way they set up the characters (oh look, we're constantly smoking weed and talking about social media, just in case you missed that we're millennials). You can accurately guess which characters will die, even the order, before the action even starts.
A house that talks like Richard Pryor, making them food and even finding them weed, and nobody even questions for a second that there's something wrong, or at least unusual here? Some scenes must be seen to be believed, such as the artificial arms of the massage chair moving slowly to hug one of the kids, and him watching in horror, although he has more than plenty of time to simply get off the chair.
As a lover of bad movies, I have no problem accepting the premise that a smart home goes berserk and wants to kill people. But how did the AI build Indiana Jones-like traps into the house?
Of course, that kind of lack of logic is the least of the problems with this. It's not scary, it's not interesting, or amusing, just bad.
The only upside is, the makers of movies like The Bed That Eats, The Killer Sofa and The Refrigerator must be relieved, here's a movie that will top all the "killer household item" movies: A killer house movie.
Stay away. You've been warned.