We’ve lost track of how many movies have been made about an AI-powered house that inevitably turns on the family that lives there. But this summer, Blumhouse and Sony are putting out another film with that exact premise called Afraid. This time, the killer AI acts a lot like Amazon’s Alexa, before things take a much darker twist in the trailer below.
John Cho and Katherine Waterston star in the movie as parents who allow a revolutionary digital family assistant called AIA to become a part of their home. But only Waterston’s character seems to be unnerved by AIA’s “eyes” around the home, or the way that AIA is bribing their son to go to school.
AIA sees all and knows everything that’s happening in the house, even when the teenage daughter played by Lukita Maxwell is sexting her boyfriend. From there, things get comically over-the-top as AIA gets revenge on the boyfriend for leaking the lewd photos by taking over his car and sending him off to his death.
Before the family can fully realize the AI nightmare they’ve gotten themselves into, it’s already too late. AIA isn’t the only AI that they have to worry about. The trailer has a few glimpses of androids whom AIA describes as her “friends.”
Riki Lindhome, Havana Rose Liu, David Dastmalchian, Greg Hill, Keith Carradine, Ben Youcef, Wyatt Lindner, and Isaac Bae also star in the film. Afraid was directed and written by Chris Weitz, and it will hit theaters on August 30.
