Afraid (stylized as AFRAID) is the future of horror. With technology overtaking and/or brainwashing people via Alexa or Siri.
Written, produced and directed by Chris Weitz, also being produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Jason Blum and Weitz through their Blumhouse Productions and Depth of Field.
Starring John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian, and Keith Carradine. Afraid follows a family whose smart home AI increasingly interjects itself into their lives.
While things start of fine, they quickly decline. With the kids being the easiest to manipulate.
With a quick run time of 84 minutes, there is zero mucking around with plot twists and turns.
Afraid has (not surprisingly) received negative reviews from critics, as the horror genre usually gets a bad wrap.
However this did feel rushed, or could have just been an instalment on Ryan Murphy's side hustle, American Horror Stories.
I didn't hate it, but there was no scary moments or moments of tension.
Sadly for me Afraid maybe should have just been a straight to streaming. Sorry Blumhouse the quality is a little on the slide at present.
2 Stars.
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