Hoping to sell his latest creation, a developer hoping to use a presentation on how AI will help secure houses for future use only to find that the haunted history of the house chosen for the project has corrupted the software turning it against him and forcing him to escape the situation alive.
This wasn't that bad of a feature but does have some issues with it. One of the better factors here is the fact that there's an overall intriguing idea about the concept of AI turning a home into a potentially haunted scenario. The whole idea about the property originally conceived as a way of testing home security and general ease of living being turned into a reckless display with the technology taking the evil influence from the house inadvertently chosen to conduct the trial run in and let loose into this kind of scenario. It works rather nicely to ensure that there's a solid slew of hauntings throughout here with the device controlling inanimate objects and turning them loose on the clueless developer as a non-stop series of scenes focusing on objects behaving irrationally or unnaturally to the point of creating some intriguing ideas demonstrating the influence it has on the community. The issue with all of this is that it spends far too much time in a film already this short trying to get there that this one tends to be quite bland for the most part. Watching him going about his routines trying to set up the technology, checking to ensure it all works, meeting with his employers about the progress of the mission, or taking phone calls from his wife, there's a lot of the running time set up to have nothing much happen. That it's also quite heavily reliant on him being so oblivious to what's going on and not recognizing that the obvious signs, such as the manipulating objects or alarmingly inhospitable weather environments taking place in the house that should signal something happening, but the obliviousness to keep the film going is a bit off-putting. That also goes for the other issue here in the overall cheap and flimsy presentation that manages to be somewhat damaging alongside the other issues here.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.
