Blumhouse's AFRAID is Hilariously Awful

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I love well-crafted sci-fi films that tackle the topic of AI rebelling against its human creators. The Terminator gave us a dystopian smackdown between humanity and Skynet, Ex Machina delved into AI manipulation and philosophical mind games, The Matrix redefined the genre by exploring the blurred lines between reality and simulation, pushing the boundaries of technology as a tool of control and rebellion.
Megan blended horror and satire to critique our tech obsession, and Her managed to make falling in love with your operating system weirdly poetic and depressing. I mention these films to highlight how powerful this topic can be-when not botched by incompetent filmmaking. Unfortunately, Blumhouse's latest movie fumbles it so hard you'd think the script was written by an AI... with a glitch in its code.
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@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

Hey everyone! I'm currently adventuring abroad and recording from a hotel room with my trusty travel mic. Apologies if the acoustics and overall audio aren't studio-level, but I'm making it work to keep the content flowing for you all over the next two weeks. Thanks for bearing with me as I bring you the best I can from wherever I am!

@thearmchairjournalist566 2 дня назад

We will never mind, thank you for the upload and making my day better 👌

@AnthonyClark177 2 дня назад

Your voice and way of explaining are by far the best combination in the business. Please do more.

@AllyourBase3 2 дня назад

I immediately came to the comments to see if you addressed it lol. Good video though, appreciate the entertainment

@Scp-1384 2 дня назад

I was about to ask lol, i was thinking is he sick?

@jimmytran5971 2 дня назад

Where was your first stop?

@CuriousMisterG 2 дня назад

So basically 'Smart House' If it weren't a Disney Channel movie

@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

Yep, pretty much lol

@peckerthemecher 2 дня назад

Which is basically “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury if it wasn’t as creepy

@CaulkMongler 2 дня назад

At least Smart House knew their audience enough to make a good movie by their own standards lol

@keywanewoolford9218 День назад

Smart house with leagues better

@watchnowwithfireinyoureyes День назад

I was thinking the same thing!🤣😂

@travisjackson3076 2 дня назад

"Alexa, remove the solar panel seller outside"

@tirefish 2 дня назад

Alexa, give that guy lock-jaw

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping 2 дня назад

AlJokes reference, I like it. We are all the same

@tirefish 2 дня назад

@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping Did you know that a soul can't be cut

@NobodyHasToAgreeAllTheTime День назад

@@tirefish speak for yourself mortal

@SpikeTheWolf День назад

I don't get it? Cuz they keep nagging?

@iceheart1289 2 дня назад

I prefer the Disney version with Katey Sagal, but that's not an insult because I ❤ Katey Sagal.

@jonbourgoin182 День назад

Had to scroll down to see if anyone was gonna reference Smart House. THANK YOU. LOL

@lonlylucario5324 День назад

@@jonbourgoin182 10/10 better horror movie then afraid, Katie's even more menacing as the ai too

@willpoundstone71 17 часов назад

I have to imagine they cast her because of the irony wrt her previous role as Peg Bundy

@jzblue345 9 часов назад

@@willpoundstone71Smart house is awesome.

@latinojackson9694 2 дня назад

someone somewhere saw the dozens and dozens of "rogue AI turning evil" movies and thought "yeah, i want to write another crappy movie like that"

@Zurround День назад

One of the best "rogue AI" stories was a TV series called NEXT that sadly was canceled after only one season that ended on a cliffhanger. I saw every episode in absolute awe. It is a tragedy that such a show was canceled so soon.

@chrisisherwood1874 2 дня назад

Even though its some what dated the film Demon Seed from 1977 did the whole "AI takes over the home" thing a whole lot better and with more style :)

@ranger409RL 2 дня назад

Is it good? Maybe I’ll check it out.

@chrisisherwood1874 2 дня назад

@ranger409RL I liked it , it's based on a story by Dean Koontz back in the day and has a bit of a cult following , best thing is to watch it and make up you own mind about it :)

@CacklingJack День назад

Great book. Haven't seen the movie

@JaCKal_646f67 2 дня назад

this is why the BIGGIE E got Adeptus Mechanicus

@tirefish 2 дня назад

At least the robo-bois are chill most of the time

@jackychang9148 День назад

Yeah all they want are toasters.

@anwarvanommeren8407 6 часов назад

I see Warhammer 40k reference. I like.

@belluzinha7004 День назад

"the characters are so wooden I half expected them to sprout leaves" LOOOL

@Ineedanewdong 2 дня назад

An AI generated plot of a Al horror movie as the villain is so meta and lame.

@gothpotato 2 дня назад

Another amazing video, I love how much you roasted the family 😂

@belluzinha7004 День назад

reminds me so much of one episode of Scooby Doo about a smart house gone rogue, where the solution was to just stop paying attention to it

@riotbreaker3506 11 часов назад

"Alexa, order Kimchi" "Now Destroying Family"

@SlimeBlueMS 2 дня назад

I've never even heard of this movie

@Zurround День назад

I am jealous of you then. I lost 13 dollars and 2 hours of my life that you got to keep.

@dyreckta23 День назад

I saw it on an YT ad

@rashido_grey 2 дня назад

Windows 95 did nothing wrong

@codadvancedwarfare0573 2 дня назад

Damn. Aside from the FNAF movie, it seems like Blumhouse can’t stop losing lol.

@EtherealUKMusic 2 дня назад

@@codadvancedwarfare0573 yeah Blum has gone soft on us. Perhaps they’ve just come out of rehab

@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

Their movies are so cheap to make that they've gone for quantity over quality.

@brianstanton2721 2 дня назад

@filmcomicsexplained Yeah and I feel like going that direction is a bad idea no matter what you're talking about

@EtherealUKMusic 2 дня назад

@@filmcomicsexplained sad 😔

@Josh-py9rq 2 дня назад

@@filmcomicsexplained😂💯

@trevy38 2 дня назад

We're all screwed the second we create learning AI

@Mustachioed_Mollusk 2 дня назад

Eh, only if it's made by idiots stealing and slapping things together or someone genuinely evil. Jarvis from Ironman is a more realistic version of this. Movies need drama

@NobodyHasToAgreeAllTheTime 2 дня назад

There’s no current benefit to anyone creating a skynet at the moment. It’ll only be once resources are scarce, people get desperate for control and probably a doomer gets involved

@Explorator_101 День назад

Nah..... we get "Transcendence" (2014)

@anthonyfournier1731 2 дня назад

So a dumber version of Smart House

@unit0157 2 дня назад

You meann a blumhouse movie is bad in 2024?? Never could have seen it coming

@jdlizzard62 2 дня назад

Blumehouse is the king of “I ran out of ideas and I’m not trying anymore”

@billielizeth 2 дня назад

Blumhouse gets one win a year but then everything else ends up being forgotten about

@panzerfaust5046 День назад

Between "killer AI" and "killer social media" movies I think we can agree that the only time technology has been scary has been that guy that screams TECHNOLOGY

@atxmaps 2 дня назад

AI won’t have intent in the way we think of it.

@Leoprincess3038 2 дня назад

That's why you don't teach it to learn on its own......

@Mishu-cd7xb 2 дня назад

or is that what AI would have us think?

@guyprieto1593 День назад

That sounds even creepier

@IronKore День назад

AI will develop giant robotic teddies for everyone and we'll all be happy 😊

@Strike-nz5gy 10 часов назад

That awkward moment when a Disney channel original movie handled this premise better lol.

@JaCKal_646f67 2 дня назад

imagine if they just prayed into the AI and the plot just ends 😂

@conqc20 2 дня назад

Makes sense, parents would rather give their kid a phone screen instead of interacting and entertainting/teaching them.

@Zurround День назад

I was playing with my neighbor's child a few days ago and he wanted to play games on my Iphone but I did not allow it. We were outside in the fresh air and sun and I wanted us to really enjoy each other and the real world not hunch over a phone screen. Call me "old fashioned" all you want. We still had a great time and I got a big hug when I took him home.

@MrGalactica75 2 дня назад

I think you should take a look at “The Thirteenth Floor” and “Equilibrium”.

@anubusx 2 дня назад

Please look at The Ancient Enemy from The Phantoms.

@angeld470 День назад

“another fine example of our chimpanzee’s editors work” is diabolical

@SuperSwordman1 2 дня назад

So we're making horror movies off DCOM ideas now? First Simpsons gags, the Family Guy cutaways, what's next?

@anubusx 2 дня назад

Reminded me of Dreamhouse.

@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

You mean Disney's Smart House? because this movie basically copies elements from that 90s movie

@anubusx 2 дня назад

@@filmcomicsexplained Dreamhouse was an independant horror film from the late 90's.

@Zurround День назад

@@filmcomicsexplained With how fast technology is evolving that movie would be horribly dated by now.

@filmcomicsexplained День назад

@@Zurround yep

@junko4166 2 дня назад

6:07 The desperate rizz actually working is crazy 💀

@EtherealUKMusic 2 дня назад

Was pretty average tbh Subservience is ALOT better

@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

I've heard subservience is awesome. Gotta give it a go

@anubusx 2 дня назад

Megan playing a Megan.

@EtherealUKMusic 2 дня назад

@@filmcomicsexplained yes it is! Go for it!

@corwinjkabuki 2 дня назад

No it isn't they're both bad

@thecopperiris 2 дня назад

3:13 Henry Hill???? From Goodfellas?? 😂😅

@SaturnSenshi3105 2 дня назад

4chan would make the best parent wym haha but seriously I can’t believe that green text ended up in a movie

@DarkAncientScholar 2 дня назад

“Alexa, erase all Steven Seagal films off the Internet & put him to sleep”

@squidy968 День назад

I genuinely would’ve taken the AI being a demon or something over whatever the fuck happened

@reycesarcarino4653 2 дня назад

I thought this was a Comedy like Scream

@Concept229 2 дня назад

So It's basically MEGAN which was basically A Child's play (2019) except it's worse and no where near as good. So basically the usual for HollyWood.

@jaykettavong4109 2 дня назад

Holy ship I got spooked cause I was doing some paperwork and my phone heard that kid say Siri 😅

@no-one3795 День назад

Imagine. A movie about AI made by AI. That would be crazy 😆

@kevinpoe8137 День назад

The fact that blumhouse hasn’t gone bankrupt yet is a miracle

@BlkGrlnSpace 8 часов назад

I’m starting to think that the praise Blumhouse has gotten in the past had tarnished its drive to make original horror movies that really left the viewer wanting more. It seems like they’re comfortable making mediocre movies because they know some of us will at least try to see what they put out simply became some of their past work has been phenomenal

@feralprocessor9853 2 дня назад

For fun, I would like to see you do a Warhammer 40k character overview of Trayzn the Infinite. I don't blame you if you don't want to dive into the character anyway. I mean where to start with a powerful individual with the word Infinite in his name.

@thelonelywhale219 День назад

As soon as i saw "from the creators of Meagan" in the trailer i thought, yeah F that noise.

@cookieanddabutt2843 День назад

This is a Dean Koontz book.

@damianstarks3338 2 дня назад

Great review of this new rouge AI movie. 1:37 is beyond hilarious

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping 2 дня назад

Rouge is a shade of red.

@JunkyardGod 2 дня назад

Rogue*

@fyrflyr2378 20 часов назад

Even after all that the worst thing AIA did was make them watch the emoji movie.

@richietozier7091 День назад

I feel like they missed a great opportunity to do a horror film not with an AI that becomes sentient, but one that doesn’t. Because to me, “weak” AIs are much more frightening than “strong” AIs. Despite movies fears that a sentient AI will immediately decide to kill us all, an efficient machine will probably see that whatever it’s goal is, trying to kill all humans will probably force it to expend much more resources than it would through a myriad of other ways. But a weak AI? They don’t think, there’s no logic behind their actions, they don’t even try to reason. It could receive a prompt saying “All humans must deal with the grief that comes when a loved one dies” and spit out “All humans are grief and must die

@feralprocessor9853 2 дня назад

Right off the bat, a montage of Renegade machine intelligence.

@Theottselmaster 7 часов назад

Ohhh so THIS is what happened to Sulu after "Beyond"

@aaronbood1999 2 дня назад

If it's from blumhouse, it's not going to be great

@brianagillustration День назад

Gotta admire Blumhouse's committal to consistently write horror movies that literally feel like they were written by AI lol. This was a step above Imaginary but that's not saying much.

@TacoEX1 День назад

…So this is bootleg “M3gan?”

@tturnquest1 2 дня назад

Damn. You know this movie is bad when they started playing the emoji movie. And that’s saying something.

@sufianabuahmad7781 День назад

Saddest part , im almost certain the school is becon hills high from teen wolf show. It looks very similar

@RealAnthonyJones 2 дня назад

16 mins in and I’m realizing this is basically a modern remake of the amityville horror. As you said film comics it probably is an AI generated remake of the Amityville Horror.

@Zurround День назад

From a literary standpoint its like the modern remake of "Child's Play". The remake did away with the "voodoo" and supernatural aspect of the original and its sequels and had a computerized A.I. doll programmed to be evil by a mentally deranged programmer. Your example and mine both effectively had the same story but did away with supernatural and fantasy aspects and made it "science fiction".

@grumpielizard32 19 часов назад

That last clip had me on the floor 😂

@zaxx 2 дня назад

This looks like a movie

@mariawhite7337 6 часов назад

They already did this. It was called smart house.

@efugee День назад

This movie would have been better if they were a normal family, seduced by the AI into doing horrific things, and worshiping it like a god as it made their lives better through horrific acts. Like revenge on the boyfriend, or killing a boss, or stuff like that. Then resting with the unsettling narrative that the child is going to grow up to be it's puppet, never knowing a real life of his own.

@doctorwyvern9992 2 дня назад

I didn’t even know this movie existed until your video about it. Guess I’m not really missing anything.

@jarenmckinney8580 2 дня назад

Congrats on 1m subs!

@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

Thank you Jaren!

@thecopperiris 2 дня назад

Lmao, my guy played the Macarena 😂😂

@kirbymarchbarcena День назад

I gotta give credit to the two kids, they are the stars in this movie.

@Rico-nj3vl День назад

Honestly think this is an underrated movie. It's not great by any means, but it is a lot better when you actually figure out where the AI is in its process (but maybe i'm just extrapolating too much). SPOILERS: the AI is already out, it has been out for a while, and it's progressively turning humans into extensions of itself as a super being. I think the MC ain't special, the family is maybe seen by it as more useful than others because it's close to what it wants to promote for social order, but it's just one more set of humans now configured and ready to use for this new type of godly being, on its methodical way of turning every human it sees as useful into one of its worker/slave, wether they know it or not. Even the last sentence "i am more like a parent" would be better if it's read as what the family needs to hear rather than what the AI really thinks. Well, at least with this interpretation I managed to enjoy the movie quite a bit. Even if i'm completely off XD

@hwelsh201 2 часа назад

Katherine Waterston is an excellent actress but her roles are getting progressively worse. Sad.

@Renkencen 14 часов назад

Wait, you're telling me there wasn't a plot in the story were AIA made a body? Cos in the trailer at the end, it was implying that???

@3choblast3r4 2 дня назад

That house looks so much like the house from parasite

@thecopperiris 2 дня назад

26:52 why does he look like a Romulan from Star Trek?😅

@mummeii День назад

It’s interesting because it actually had potential but they just failed on the execution lmao. Too many ideas and it felt rushed and congested

@andreh1888 18 часов назад

The real problem with how we've taught AI to model us. We are teaching it to be who we really are. We need to program it to model the best of our potential.

@olando1187 2 дня назад

I watched this video on my TV with a good sound system. His voice was weird this time. Was that on purpose? Used AI to narrate the video?

@MidNight-fw8zq 2 дня назад

The only `True AI` is EDI.

@sharkfin154 20 часов назад

Smarthouse did it first.

@giovannamoretti4001 2 дня назад

the Cordyceps fungi statement was the only good thing about this movie 🙄

@DubbrRucky День назад

disney did this years ago

@soulreaver1983 2 дня назад

Awesome video thanks 😁👍🏻

@filmcomicsexplained 2 дня назад

No problem 👍

@imemovengeance 2 дня назад

I haven't seen the movie but based on your breakdown I think the point of the story is just to say AI will always want to take over the world basically

@feralprocessor9853 2 дня назад

Straight away, fight fight fight!

@goldiesworld2095 День назад

I think it’s funny we keep getting movies like this but still they continue to make A.I 😅

@MiddlePath007 2 дня назад

The narrator could not simply harder for the teen daughter

@DarkZeno День назад

As complex as a screensaver... lol

@AllyourBase3 2 дня назад

so disappointed David Dastmalchian did this movie

@cmasterson День назад

My 6 year old non verbal daughter would have wrote a better movie about ai. Better yet I’m gonna go ask my 4 year old to make up a story about AI in a family.

@cmasterson День назад

Even a 4 year old can do better. Something about an AI shooting rainbows and paw patrol and bluey saving the family. See Hollywood. A 4 year old did better than what we got lol. 😂

@alexcarpenter2465 2 дня назад

Terrible movie, new ASMR voice? I’m thankful blumhouse

@AnthonyAnalog День назад

Isn't this just M3gan and/or Tesla? 😂

@tjniezek3096 24 минуты назад

Simpsons did it !

@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart День назад

It was ok. It wasn't hard to predict the majority of scenes tho. I think the typical AI bit has been played alot already. There needs to be a new twist.

@greggwashington4015 День назад

Now I may have gone into this movie with very very low expectations. But I have to say it wasnt terrible. A little whack yes, but it was intriguing in a subversive way, so i didnt hate it