“Some day realistic personalized sex bots that think they’re human will rise up against their owners and kill them” is not a future I am interested in for many reasons. But that exact scenario should make for a pretty entertaining horror-comedy. That’s what the new trailer for Companion certainly promises. This bloody look at the film starring Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher and The Boys‘ Jack Quaid shows what can go wrong when we hack into our own advanced pleasure machines.
Well, relationships are hard…
Companion comes from writer-director Drew Hancock (My Dead Ex, Suburgatory). It also comes from the producers of Barbarian and New Line Cinema. The Companion trailer very humorously notes New Line Cinema is also “the studio that brought you The Notebook.” Needless to say this is a very different type of love story. That should be obvious since most love stories don’t involve murder. (Just some.) But this is also a tale about the perils of AI and looking to machines to make us feel loved.
Turns out that’s a very bad idea, especially when you hack into your sex bot’s hardrive and override its protocols. If you ever have a highly realistic sex bot that looks and feels human in every way, DO NOT free it of its safety mechanisms and raise its consciousness. This is sex bot AI 101 stuff. Probably. If nothing else that seems so obvious, right?
The film also stars Lukas Gage (Dead Boy Detectives), Megan Suri (Never Have I Ever), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), and Rupert Friend (Asteroid City). Companion arrives in theaters around the world on January 8, but it won’t premiere until January 10 in the United States.
Who should you take to see Companion with you? Based on both this trailer and common sense? A human. Definitely a human.
