2022 · horror · sci-fi
Margaux
Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 44m2022
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.
Our read: Margaux (2022) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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