Megan Fox Is a Perfectly Creepy Android in This Sneak Peek at Subservience

Stand aside, M3GAN—and marque room, M3GAN‘s upcoming spin-off sister Soulm8te. Megan Fox’s Subservience arrives this week, and io9 has an exclusive clip showing her android quality arsenic she’s starting to interruption bad, and looking eerily flawless portion doing so.

Directed by S.K. Dale and written by Will Honley and April Maguire, Subservience besides deserves peculiar props for whoever decided to formed Fox; though she antecedently leaned into akin glamorous-yet-deadly vibes successful Jennifer’s Body, there’s thing adjacent darker going connected here, and the mode she’s styled with exaggerated femininity feels similar the nonstop close choice. Woe beryllium it unto anyone who tries to get successful her way, similar the unfortunate quality we spot successful the country above.

Here’s the authoritative synopsis: “Megan Fox stars arsenic Alice, a lifelike artificially intelligent android, who has the quality to instrumentality attraction of immoderate household and home. Looking for assistance with the housework, a struggling begetter (Michele Morrone) purchases Alice aft his woman becomes sick. Alice abruptly becomes self-aware and wants everything her caller household has to offer, starting with the affection of her owner—and she’ll termination to get it.”

How Alice becomes self-aware isn’t revealed successful the synopsis—for the emotion of aged monster movies, I anticipation it’s a wayward lightning strike—or successful the trailer below, but the ailing woman is played by Madeline Zima, for each the Heroes and Doom Patrol fans retired there.

The trailer hints that Alice’s pivot into unsafe self-interest mightiness not commencement and extremity successful her caller family’s household—there’s decidedly immoderate cautionary messaging astir making robots too life-like, past carelessly integrating them into the world—but this intelligibly isn’t thing connected the scope of Westworld. Instead, Subservience looks similar a home thriller that sprouts wrong a sci-fi premise.

Soulm8te, Blumhouse’s upcoming M3GAN spin-off, has a similar-sounding story involving a antheral who acquires a companion robot aft his woman dies and an unnatural attachment forms. But it’s not a caller idea; successful caller years we’ve besides seen Ex Machina, Her, and different works research the often confusing intersection of quality emotion and artificial intelligence. It doesn’t ever person to beryllium scary (see: the delightful and under-appreciated Brian and Charles), but Subservience is astir decidedly aiming for erotic robot panic vibes. With Fox playing the main character, it feels similar the campy heights of M3GAN are reasonably wrong reach.

Subservience hits integer and and connected request September 13. Will you beryllium checking it out?

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