2024 · horror · sci-fi · thriller
Afraid
Directed by Chris Weitz1h 24m2024
Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family's way.
Our read: Afraid (2024) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- surreal
- twisty
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“You want a brisk smart-home horror night with AI anxiety and a grim Blumhouse sprint.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you need coherent techno-horror; this one frustrates more than it frightens.
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