User Reviews

The tropes in this film have been done so much that the outcome can be predicted from reading the short synopsis. The deaths are predictable with little build up or sense of urgency. What I found unique was the motive.

The cold open sets the tone for this film: Smart house goes rogue and murders (at least one of) the inhabitants. Who are these people? We'll never know because it never really comes back again. What follows is a standard slasher where the deaths follow the standard formula: sex positive characters first, stoner second, self-absorbed girlfriend third and so on. The final girl and love interest don't get a happy ending, and the film is left open ended.

Margaux (the AI behind the smart house) does have an interesting motive for "her" serial killer tendencies: LOGIC. The AI "learns" through the app installed on the vacationers' phones via social media and personal profiles. "She" is intrigued by logic and becomes frustrated by illogical behaviour. The most illogical to "her"? Murder. So, in an effort to understand, "she" commits endless murder on hundreds of vacationers. She's essentially GLaDOS but with GenZ speak, less sarcasm, goop clones and bad CGI.

Where the plot falls apart for me ultimately is when her mainframe is hacked and we discover that her hardware is obsolete from bygone decades with no explanation as to how it was able to become self-aware. There is nothing further than it just exists, and our last two characters standing upload malware into the system to stop the psycho computer...as is the formula for shutting down evil tech.

Additionally, the kills, while surprising at times, aren't incredibly exciting nor do they build suspense or throw any red herrings at the audience. They just happen without much gore (minus the cold open kill) and move on. Incidental death by slipping on hair extension was not on my slasher bingo card, however.

Overall, the ride was fun with mediocre payoff. I kept expecting to see something completely out of left field, but would be treated to the predictable. It's two by-the-numbers stories merged into one. The acting isn't terrible, and the cinematography is clean. The film could use some pizazz and the story could use some refinement, but I could watch it again.

This is a murderous film... Margaux is a futuristic artificial intelligence program that is designed to provide its guest the perfect household experiences. However, there is a major fault in its programming that goes against one of the major rules of A. I.

The problem I have with this film is that it is not scary at all. The kills are fine but not get under your skin type horror. It is very Hollywood-ised & take the scares out of the murder. The characters are the generic ones you see in contemporary horror "teens" with the various couples that ranging from those in their honeymoon period, another that moved past that stage and the loner stoner...

The set up for the kills are average at best. I just don't get to know or care about the characters. The ending is predictable. It is inoffensive.

The premise isn't necessarily anything special but this definitely had potential to be a decent horror film, or at least a movie with good gore or interesting kills. The first scene looked good and made me want to continue watching.

But the beginning drags on, and after finally picky up it pretty quickly becomes cheesy and cheap feeling. Take out some of the drug references and it would feel like a Disney channel special for kids.

There's the classic "smart person hacks the system" and a ton of overdone, horribly cheesy dialogue. Completely overriding the entire house feels way too easily done and doesn't make much sense.

It seriously feels like some kids spy movie that they slapped an unhappy ending on. Should have made it more serious and had more interesting deaths, then it wouldn't be amazing but would at least make a solid horror flick that's watchable without rolling your eyes.

Had a couple of good kills. That's about all there is to it.

The Simpsons episode was more concise and entertaining.

Vapid characters, extremely boring and cliché dialogue. This is one of those bad movies that's bad in the most egregious way: it's boring.

It takes until about half way in until the house actually starts killing people and the build up to that is just lame teen flick dialogue. It doesn't really give you much insight in to the characters and none of them had any real arc apart from Hannah, and hers was meh at best.

The VA doing the Margaux performance was okay, but wasn't particularly creepy or original.

There's a great Treehouse of Horror episode of the early years of "The Simpsons" which did this a million times better and in just 10 minutes.

It's a great idea but poorly executed by lazy storytelling. It's obvious from the beginning which character will survive (hint! Think PC-friendly), the characters are awful (except for Lexi) and the death scenes whilst gruesome make no real sense.

What was the motive of Margaux killing people?

The opening act whilst intense - what was the connection to any of it?

None of it really makes any sense yet it drags on a bit.

And wait to you see some of the FX!

I mean it could have tried a bit harder.

I thought that after reading the description of this movie that it would be better than what it was but it wasn't. It didn't completely suck but it definitely wasn't good at all. The beginning of this movie started off good therefore I thought that the rest of the movie would be somewhat like the beginning but ended up being disappointed. Some parts didn't make any sense none whatsoever especially the part where the imitation friend that Margaux created went looking for the other friend named Lexi but couldn't find her yet she already knew just about everything about everyone and where everyone was so why didn't she know where Lexi was hiding??? Lol If you don't have anything to do nor anything else interesting or entertaining to watch on TV, I'd say watch this movie.