You never know when Siri, Alexa, or Watson will go ballistic, so perhaps we should be nice to them now. The Artifice Girl is a philosophical drama, set up like Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs movie, meant to provide a viewpoint from the machines we control. Add in an older Gareth as played by Aliens’ robot Lance Hendricksen and there’s some amusing irony at play. However, the third act overdramatizes the film slightly, elongating the film but ultimately granting satisfaction. The first two acts are performed exceptionally well, drawing the viewer into nerve-shattering situations from different eras of Cherry’s development. The movie, written almost like a stage play, uses minimal space and only a handful of characters to tell its story. was but moves along similar points and delivers them more clearly than Spielberg’s 2001 feature. It isn’t the kind of visual stunner as Steven Spielberg’s A.I. The Artifice Girl was an absorbing surprise. But When Cherry begins to achieve actual cognizance and emotional depth, finding enjoyment in art, questions about the implications of Cherry’s power and her oppression become ethical dilemmas. Brought in for questioning, Gareth owns up to using Cherry for vigilantism, and the program is quickly integrated as a tool used to catch online predators. I found a very poignant science fiction drama instead and an engaging look at human behavior as seen through the evolution of a crime-fighting AI.īuilt to lure pedophiles, Cherry (Tatum Matthews) looks, sounds, and responds in real-time like any teenage girl, but her creator Gareth (Franklin Ritch), is the brainchild behind the ones and zeros. The Artifice Girl Image Courtesy of Fantasia International Film FestivalĪI is always a unique avenue for horror, so I decided to check out The Artifice Girl to see what our future robot overlords might be capable of.
A date of release has yet to be provided. Deadstream will also stream exclusively on the service. The Winters were also announced to have a segment in Shudder’s newly announced V/H/S/99, streaming in October. If Ash Williams had filmed and provided commentary during his experience in the cabin during Evil Dead 2, you’d get Deadstream. Shawn is easily loathsome, but the creative script choices, imaginative monsters, and gross-out humor help the film grow on you. The Winter’s Deadstream takes a little bit to get into, but it does turn out to be a fun and uproarious time. So how did this become one of my absolute favorite experiences of Fantasia? Shawn is arrogant, oblivious, and generally annoying. The story of Shawn (Joseph Winter) trying to bounce back after a stunt on his streaming channel goes wrong sounds like redemption on paper, but as we learn he’s heading into another stunt in a haunted house, it plays like desperation. When I started Deadstream, I got a little bummed out because that’s what it felt like I was getting. I think the entertainment industry loves taking an easily hateable target, creating a vapid persona for them, and thinks that by offing them, we’ll immediately find joy in the film after waiting ninety minutes for their execution. My point is everyone seems to be getting in on influencer horror lately, and very few have real success with it. The biggest difference in Joseph and Vanessa Winter’s setup is that we’re dealing with a haunted house instead of a slasher story. When I first read the synopsis to Deadstream, it immediately made me think of Travis Bible’s short film #chadgetstheaxe. Deadstream Image Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival Hopefully, you’ll be able to start planning your spooky season film slate now.
And, since we’re wrapping up the festival, please find links to all of the horror films we saw at this year’s Fantasia Festival. So, below are brief descriptions and analyses of Deadstream, Vesper, Huesera, The Artifice Girl, and Dark Glasses. We don’t want to spoil these films for audiences by dissecting them or over-analyzing them before they’re out.
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If you’ve been wondering about some of the top ten movies I mentioned I was looking forward to that you never saw a full feature on, well, look no further. It has been an incredible three weeks of captivating and challenging films filled with creativity and oozing with conversation-starting moments. It has been my honor over the past few weeks to watch and review many of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival’s spectacular selections, but we are at the end of the road.
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