Friday, July 14, 2023

Twisted Pair (2018)

Twins Cale and Cade are selected by the force and their DNA  reprogrammed to become humanoid. Are you buying that? Their mission is to fight for good and defeat evil in humanity.  But Cale is not successful so the force takes his powers away and releases him. 

Cade receives missions from an older woman in an office building and is sent undercover as an art dealer. He’s to meet Cuzzx, a villian who has a bowl of diamonds, a few cat statues, large red glasses, and an effect on his voice as if he’s on the news but undercover. Cuzzx plans a global takeover which involves a cyber war.

Meanwhile the powerless Cale is kidnapping and torturing executives for their corrupt business practices. When he’s not doing that, he’s taking drugs and fighting with his much younger girlfriend.  

In an awkward encounter, Cade gives change to a homeless man and bumps into a young woman. He apologizes while repeatedly saying he’ll buy her dinner or drinks and she angrily rebuffs him.  He tells her to meet him at 8, but she doesn’t show. When he spots her on the street, he follows her home, goes into her house, heads down to the basement kitchen and attacks her.  As they awkwardly tussle on the couch, it’s revealed they are a couple.  What the hell? He still comes off as a super creepy stalker.

Cade fights against coruption. He also goes to cocktail parties where he joins conversations in which people talk about the illegal things they’re doing. Even though none of them know Cade, they are fine with revealing their unlawful activities.  In each conversation, Cade asks, “Isn’t that corrupt?”  People are surprisingly unsuspicious and continue laughing at their self reported corruption.

The movie is confusing and the plot is elusive.  What is the force? What powers does Cade have? How did Cale fail so badly they had to take his powers away?  What business is Cade and his girlfriend in, and how does he get so much time off to work to go on his top secret missions?  Why so much talk about AI when it doesn’t impact the plot? And if Cade can jump several stories, why not land just slightly to the right so he doesn’t end up straddling a railing?

Nothing is how it should be. There are scenes that go nowhere and only have a couple sentences. The music sounds like it’s needle drop. Much of the movie appears to be stock footage, sometimes with Cade green screened into it.  Then there is the scene where the homeless guy is stabbed in the leg, but there is obviously a piece of wood in his pants leg. 

And can we talk about the mustaches?  Why did they think mustaches drawn onto clear tape and stuck on the upper lip would actually look passable? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse mustache in a movie. 

The credits list Neil Breen as doing the following: writer; producer; director; actor; music director; editor; cinematographer; director of photography; sound editor; and production manager.   Then at the end of the credits it says any company with an N or B in the name is also Breen. So he also did: casting; set design; wardrobe; props; special effects; stunt coordinator; aerial rigging; special make up effects; location; legal; accounting; administration; catering; make up and hair.

This may be my favorite Breen movie. I was so confused and yet so entertained. An hour into it, I was still wondering what the hell was going on.  So on an enteratinment level, he totally succeeded.

Ridiculous dialogue

The force’s advancements in AI surpassed anything on Earth.

I don’t need special forces. I am the weapon.

Hey, that’s the girl I met earlier. I’m going to follow her.

I don’t need to carry a weapon. I am the weapon.

I want to know more details about your global takeover plan.

I know the level of his danger and his superior means.

She was one of them. I feel sorry for him. Have somebody go over and remove the body.

Cale and Cade
The green screen plane
More green screen fun
The awkward fight where Cade appears to be a stalker
and she trips over the couch
The worst mustache ever drawn on cellophane tape
Our villain and his bowl of diamonds
He can jump several stories but landed on the railing
Explosion effects
the emotional range of Cade is the same with a bird or his wife
The obvious block of wood in the pant leg
where he was stabbed


Thursday, July 13, 2023

From the Dark (2014)

A Irish farmer digging in his field unearths a wooden stake and then finds a body under the ground. Shortly afterwards, he is attacked and bitten in the neck.

Meanwhile a couple on vacation takes a wrong turn and ends up stuck in the mud on a dirt road.  Sarah stays in the car as Mark looks for help. But instead Mark finds the injured farmer after going into his unlocked house. Mark tells Sarah someone needs their help, but Sarah is hesitant to leave the car.

When they arrive the house is dark and it takes awhile to find the farmer, who attacks Mark. They are saved when they discover he doesn’t like the light and he jumps out the window and runs off.

When they head back to the car, the unearthed creature goes after them. They seek shelter and safety at the house but with Mark injured, things aren’t going to go well.

This is an Irish film which is long on atmosphere and short on vampire.  The creature is mostly in the dark so we don’t see much of it.  


Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Don’t Knock Twice (2016)

Legend has it if you knock twice she will come for you. Who? The old lady that used to live in the abandoned house.  Chloe believes the old lady took her friend Micheal when they were kids. She reported it to the police. However the police never found any proof. 

Now a teenager, Chloe and her boyfriend Danny go to the home. Danny says there’s nothing to be afraid of because the lady is dead and house is empty. He knocks on the door and nothing happens. So Chloe knocks too.  Later that night Danny disappears and now Chloe is seeing something in the dark.

Desperate to get away from what is haunting her, Chloe shows up on Jess’s doorstep and asks to stay.  Jess abandoned Chloe years before and recently tried to get her back. Chloe didn’t want to leave the state home for abandoned children. I guess their standards aren’t strict since she’s walked off and they are letting her stay with Jess. They’re  doing a house call to see if Jess can provide an okay place to live, which you think they’d want to do before letting her stay.

There’s not a lot of backstory on why Jess left Chloe at a state home other than Jess was on drugs.  She’s now a successful sculptor, married to a rich guy and owns a huge house.  Yet it’s not clear why she never tried to get Chloe back until now. 

It’s also not clear why Chloe would knock on the door of the person she believes is a demon who took her friend.  Yes, the lady is dead but if she was actually a demon, then death isn’t going to stop this. And when the client Jess is sculpting says Chloe has darkness around her and screams at her to stay away from her baby, no one questions how she would know this. 


Ridiculous dialogue

[Police say Chloe tormented the old lady so much over Michael’s disappearance that she killed herself.]
Chloe: It’s my fault.
Jess: No it’s not. Don’t say that.


Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Capsules (2022)

Ryan, Maya and Dev decide to invite Jasper over to study for finals because he creates an amazing study guide every semester.  Jasper isn’t interested until Ryan says he’ll give him tacos and weed.

On the way to Ryan’s apartment, they see an old guy lying on the pavement.  They ask if he’s okay, and he gets up and staggers off. Ryan notices an unlabeled bottle of pills on the ground where the man was lying. Although Jasper wants to give them back to the man, Ryan is a dick and keeps them.

When they run out of Adderall,  Ryan says maybe the mystery pills can help them stay up. They’re biology students and Dev is an EMT so you’d think they’d be more cautious. Ryan takes one, then Maya and Dev down one. All three pressure Jasper into doing it too. 

Hours later when the the pill wears off, Ryan’s hearts stops. For some reason they shove another pill down his throat. Surprisingly it brings him back.  They immediately figure they need to keep taking the pills to stay alive.  It’s a huge leap in logic but oh well.  They go to the school lab and Jasper says the pills contain a compound he’s never seen. So now they’re off to track down the old man they stole the pills from and things do not go well

While Jasper and Maya are the most likable, Ryan and Dev are total dicks. The ending is not satisfactory.

Monday, July 10, 2023

Mutant Hunt (1987)

After discovering a variation of euphoron turns cyborgs into killers, villain Z decides to profit by selling the chemical to dictators and terrorists. Dr. Haynes, who has worked on the cyborgs for two years, is not happy about them his project being used for murder. So Z sics the cyborgs on Haynes. While they grab him, his sister Darla is able to escape.

Darla seeks the help of Riker, a mercenary who lives in a one room apartment which has only has a bed, a punching bag, a counter and weapons on the brick walls.  The androids aka cyborgs find them immediately and a clunky fight begins.

The rest of the movie is mostly awkward cyborg fights with Riker and his two friends.  There is also a woman named Domina who is Z’s ex-partner, but after telling Z Riker is after him, seems to try to sabotage him.  It’s confusing and not all that interesting.  About ten years ago I thought this movie was hilarious, but this time it took me multiple days to get through it.

Ridiculous dialogue

Who’d want to get robots high?

Riker: They can hold anyone for seventy two hours since the Federation Act of….
Darla: Two years ago.  Ever since the space shuttle sex murder.

Don’t get me steamed, cyborg.

Revenge of the nerds
Riker in his underwear vs. the cyborg
The arm stretching to get a weapon is both stupid and amusing
Meet Z
The primitive kill function
Riker’s amazing minimal apartment



Sunday, July 9, 2023

Kickboxer from Hell (1990)

Aka Zodiac America 3: Kickboxer From Hell

This is one of Godfrey Ho’s mashups where he takes new footage with Caucasian actors and edits it into an Asian movie, dubbing in new dialogue. Usually it’s footage from an incomplete film, but this is from a Asian movie called The Obsessed.

While Sean is practicing martial arts, a nun asks for protection from several men in face paint wearing burlap sacks. Sean beats up their leader and when the others run in to help, the downed man says they should leave Sean for Lucifer.

Meanwhile Robert Ho has gotten married, but when the wedding pictures are shown, there is a floating head in all of them.  Ho says they must have used the wrong setting when they developed them. Because you know how often those disembodied heads show up in your photos when you print them incorrectly. The oddest part of this exchange is he doesn’t seem phased at all that it’s the head of his dead wife.

Ho’s new maid runs into a woman in the middle of the night who says she’s a guest. But the next day when she sets a third place at the table,  the Ho’s tell her they have no guests in the house.  Each night the sightings of the woman get stranger, so the maid abruptly quits.

In our other story, we meet Lucifer, an ugly clown resembling if the Joker did Cabaret. It must be hot on the set because his make up is a little smeary.  You’ll wonder where the overlap is in these two stories. It’s the tenuous mention of the nun’s sister being the second wife of Mr. Ho. 

At this point I got distracted and had no idea what was going on. Either I missed something crucial or it made even less sense.  Mrs. Ho is outside in the woods in a slip. There is a kid, a ghost girl, and here’s Mr. Ho in a hotel with a woman. And it looks like Mr. Ho murdered his first wife so maybe that’s why she’s haunting his house. She died last year so he’s remarried quickly. His dead wife ends up with two inch fangs and growling like a freaky gorilla cat hybrid.

So we know Ho is a bad man, but who died in the high rise after he was tossed into the ocean by the ghost of his first wife?  Why does Lucifer keep his life force in cheap plastic skulls? And why is anyone intimidated by his silly grease paint clown face since he doesn’t seem to exhibit any supernatural powers?  

Listen for the Halloween score being used in one scene.


Ridiculous dialogue

You know Peter, I love your sister even more than I love myself.

Okay, tell me where the lunatics are.

No. Stop. Wait. Leave him for Lucifer.

Last time you refused to tell me how to conquer Lucifer but this time you must!

Fuck you, you lousy liar!

You two fight each other to the death. Then the winner will continue to be my servant.

Face paint and burlap sacks? Must be Lucifer’s minions
The floating head of his dead wife in his wedding
photo that Mr. Ho dismissed as a developing error
So Lucifer wears a cape and has a cross in his hideout?
If she’s got two inch fangs, she’s not a guest
Oh Lucifer, you crazy unalarming clown


Amityville Curse (2023)

Six college friends buy the Amityville murder house and move in. Marvin is a professor and his fiancé Debbie is a teacher. Frank is a district attorney.  Billy owns a restaurant and her girlfriend Lucy might work there.  Then there is Abigail, a contractor who is going to do the work.  I’m hoping they put more down than she did, otherwise, this isn’t a great deal for her.

The plan is to split the house into three condos, which is confusing because only four of the six are couples. So do the two singles own the last condo together? We’ll never know since Frank quickly makes an exit from an upstairs window.

News of the death brings newscasters and curiosity seekers out of the wood work. One is a podcaster who says his fans have been begging him to do an episode about the home. After he stealthily tapes Abigail making sarcastic comments and posts them, the group decides to do damage control. They give him an interview and allow him to stay in the house overnight.  Before they know it, he’s running out of the house screaming and becomes the victim of a hit and run.

Within a month three of the friends are dead and there are arguments over whether to sell it or not.  They ask Cole, the head of the Parapsychology department at the college, to come to the house. He offers himself as a conduit and things do not go as planned. Is anyone going to get out of this house alive?

While they’re all college grads, they don’t seem to have good critical thinking abilities. They bought a murder house and are now surprised that people are obsessed with what is going on inside it. Half the friends die along with the podcaster, but they continue to live there.  Also Marvin previously dated Abigail and proposed to her, but now he’s engaged to Debbie.  So it’s kind of odd for them to purchase a home together, especially when Debbie is extremely jealous to the point of not wanting him to be alone with Abigail. 

The time frame is hard to track as it seems like three peope die in a couple days, but then we’re told a month has passed. And while I understand if you’ve just put all your money in a house you don’t have money to go elsewhere, but damn, when half of you die, get the hell out of that house.

As people kept dying, I couldn’t help but think of the financial implications.  They started with six people splitting the cost. Who is paying the mortgage now? Does their share increase each time someone dies? Even if their estate should pay their share, the others would have to cover it for awhile to avoid defaulting.  The financial burden keeps increasing and people keep making bad decisions. 

Ridiculous dialogue

You’re so desperate to label anything paranormal, you overlook the obvious diagnosis in this case. Mass hysteria.

The sledge hammer inscribed with everyone’s names.



Thursday, July 6, 2023

1st Summoning (2018)

Legend has it the Millbrook Factory in Harrison was built on land used for satanic ceremonies. If you go to the factory at midnight on October 6 and perform a ritual, you can ask for whatever you want but there is a the price.

Mark is a student filmmaker who’s decided to do a documentary on the legends surrounding the factory.  Mark’s girlfriend Leslie will be helping him shoot it.  Rounding out the group are Ryan, who used to date Leslie and is still in love with her, and Ace, who I don’t even remember. 

Mark’s girlfriend doesn’t seem to like him.  Leslie trash talks his job, shoes and clothing.  She unboxes his brand new camera and starts using it. Mark is not happy since he’s worried she’ll damage it and he’s planning on returning it for a refund after he shoots his film.   

The group heads to Harrison where they stop people on the street and ask what they’ve heard about the factory.  Mark doesn’t appear to have done any research about his subject, which confirms his documentary will be crap. He’s not talking to a historian or visiting the town’s historical society. He’s just taking anecdotes from random people. 

When he hears the Pastor has been in town for a long time, the group heads over to the church with cameras rolling and shoot the sermon through the doors. Afterwards they ask to talk to him and he invites them to his quarters. He provides general information but ignores some of their more prying questions. Later they sneak back in to look through his stuff for more info. They also sneak into the graveyard.  When they are seen they flee but a piece of jewelry from the grave keeps showing up, even after they throw it away.

With the others are questioning if they should continue, Mark manufactures a way to ensure they end up at the factory.  Although Ryan drew the short straw, he refuses to do it even in the face of a barrage of anger. Leslie jumps in and her wish is show yourself if you’re real.  Does anything show up? I’m going to assume yes because the camera swings wildly and then it’s floor, darkness, shaky cam, run run, scream scream, what is that chanting? Oh my god why did we ever come here because things are going to end badly for us all. Meh.

Ridiculous dialogue

Pastor: [The three children] are buried in our old family cemetery on the church grounds.
Mark: That’s great!

If we can make it past the church without being seen, we should be good.

Nothing uncomfortable about that posture
Mark’s not looking too good


Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Rootwood (2018)

Podcaster Will is approached by a Hollywood producer who wants him and his cohost Jess to do a documentary. Does it make sense to ask a podcaster to do a film? No, it doesn’t. She asks them to investigate the curse of the wooden devil, which is in a forest where people disappear.  Equipment will be provided and so will a copy of the police file.  Does it make sense a producer would have the file of an open case? No, it doesn’t.

Their friend Erin comes along and says she’ll play the part of the non-believer, letting us know that these idiots don’t seem to understand the documentary genre.  The three know next to nothing about this legend and haven’t bothered to research it.  

Jess complains it took four hours to drive to the location, but since we have no idea how many miles they drove, we don’t know if it’s a reasonable time. While Erin’s brought three suitcases for their weekend trip, she’s neglected to bring anything appropriate for hiking. They park their camper at some random clearing near the woods and start to wander around.

Jess and Erin are abnormally scared of everything. They scream when they find a noose in a hollow tree.  They scream when they hear noises. And I don’t just mean a quick scream of shock, but like someone is trying to murder them. 

They see graffiti and declare it spooky, (it isn’t).  They decide the graffiti must be a memorial and mention how creepy it is that it’s in the middle of nowhere.  The graffiti is on a steel structure and that is exactly what people would gravitate to in the woods.   Also do they not understand what tagging is? This would be the perfect place for teenagers to hang out. 

This is another one of those movies where people go somewhere to do an investigation, yet when one of the group sees or hears something odd, the others totally dismiss them.  Oh those noises you heard? We were outside so it must have been us. Oh that creepy face you saw looking in the windows? You must have imagined it.  I hate these characters. 

Ridiculous dialogue

I’m here in the Rootwood forest with Erin, Jess and myself.

This scene feels like you’re in a first person video game
The middle aged student podcasters
The decidedly not spooky graffiti covered structure


Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Bad Moon (1996)

While on a scientific expedition in the jungle, Ted and his girlfriend are attacked by a werewolf. He is the only surivivor. While he  manages to blow the creatures head off, he is still afflicted with the werewolf curse. 

He returns home and parks his trailer in an isolated spot near the woods. But people hike or work in the woods and he’s a werewolf. So it’s only a matter of time until the police are involved due to the bodies popping up in the area. Although there is a large police presence surrounding Ted’s trailer, they don’t seem to be interested in the man living in the murder zone. So Ted decides it’s time to park his trailer in his sister’s backyard.

Janet and her son Brett are excited to see Ted, although their dog Thor is a bit wary.  That’s weird, thinks Janet, Thor’s always liked Ted. She envisions everyone happily playing in the yard, but Thor knows he’s looking at a predator.

Contrary to popular werewolf lore, Ted turns into a werewolf every freaking night.  He combats this by going out for a jog before it gets dark, chaining himself to a tree and then coming back in the morning. This is super inconvenient since Janet is getting suspicious, Thor is sitting outside watching his trailer, and  Ted should be much farther away from Janet’s house to avoid any accidents.

Ted starts off thankful to be alive and grateful to see his family, but as the movie progresses he starts getting evil. He is mean to his nephew and sees Thor as an enemy.  Evil status is confirmed when he starts chewing toothpicks, and he’s truly chewing them based on the bent toothpick that he takes from his mouth.

At one point a conman who pretended he was bitten by Thor comes back at night for revenge. Silly conman.  Werewolf Ted kills him, but the next day the Sheriff thinks Thor did it.  But wouldn’t an autopsy reveal the man was eviscerated by some huge claws?  

The movie stars Mariel Hemingway, Michael Pare and Mason Gamble. The werewolf is decent but there is a transformation scene that seems fairly low budget compared to the rest of the film.  The conman is only in the film to show that Hemingway is a smart tough lawyer who won’t be pushed around - even though she’s kind of a dunce when it comes to the werewolf. 

The werewolf in the woods
Is that a dog behind me?
Chewing on a toothpick? Oh yeah, he’s turned evil



Monday, July 3, 2023

Baby Blue (2023)

 JJ, his sister Alice, and their younger brother August (who they refer to as Beans) want to be famous. They shoot prank videos. But when they pitch the latest to their manager he says he’s dropping them. Pranks are out and true crime is in. So if they come up with a good true crime story, he’ll look at it. 

They decide to focus on Calvin who stepped off a roof shortly after cameras captured him acting like he was being strangled in the elevator.  It’s kind of an odd choice. While Calvin’s actions are certainly strange, there’s nothing on the surface that’s a crime.

They decide to solve the mystery of why he was acting weird  in the hallway and elevator. Was he was on drugs, having a breakdown, or was it something supernatural?  They track down and approach his girlfriend with cameras rolling.  She warns them if they want to live, they’ll drop it. Calvin’s death has something to do with Blue, a serial killer who filmed his own suicide. Legend has it there is a demonic curse on whoever finds his phone and watches the video.

Instead of self preservation, they opt to feign interest in renting Calvin’s old apartment.  The walls are covered with graffiti and there is an arrow in the closet pointing to the rug, under which they discover a phone. On it is a message from Calvin and the cursed video of Blue.  Alice insists on throwing the phone away, but their friend Hutch grabs it. Later he and August watch Blue’s video and the possession begins.

After JJ and Alice discover August watched it, they hire a $20 psychic to determine how to stop August from dying like Calvin.  The psychic says the curse can be stopped by burying the phone in Blue’s grave. But there is no info online as to where he’s buried. 

JJ and Alice drive out to visit Blue’s mother and sister.  Oh yes, that’s a plan. I’m sure they appreciate you filming in their windows and asking questions. And there’s definitely nothing wrong with the glasses of milk they gave you, which they are way too interested in ensuring you drink.

The first part of the film is standard but then it devolves into some torture and hillbilly type weirdness.  The guy who plays August seems to have trouble controlling his saliva. In a number of scenes he drools or sprays spittle.  I’m also not sure if the character is supposed to be mentally challenged based on his reactions and frequent crying which seem more appropriate for a twelve year old than an adult. His siblings mention they’ve taken care of him, but the context is not clear whether it’s an age thing or a mental thing.

Nothing tactless with approaching the dead guys
girlfriend with three cameras running
Nothing suspicious about walking into a meeting to view 
a dead guys apartment with three cameras filming
Why did they send August off on his own?
He’s overly scared of everything
So no one else noticed the arrow in the corner of the
corner or bothered to look under the rug?
What is this location that it’s appropriate to not wear pants?
When you’re approaching the family home of a serial killer,
 just walk up filming and point the camera in their window
The burial site with his urn one inch below the ground
Oh come on, who would ever bandage someone like this?


Saturday, July 1, 2023

Pass Thru (2016)

What do smugglers, AI from the future, and corrupt powerful people have in common? Nothing really, other than AI is going to kill everyone who is bad - except Amanda’s abusive ex boyfriend who has a gun. How’d you miss that, Mr. AI?

Smugglers guide a group of people through the desert and lock them in an abandoned house. Surprisingly you shouldn’t trust smugglers  because they could actually be human traffickers.  Meanwhile Thgil appears to OD in the desert after cleaning up trash from the illegal immigrants.

When Amanda and her niece escape from the smugglers, they take refuge in an abandoned camper. This is where Thgil lives. He wants to help them but Amanda is suspicious and hostile. Thgil offers Amanda water and cleans out his trailer for them to stay in. Amanda threatens to kill him if he comes closer. She says they’ll get their own damn water, which is odd since they’re in the desert.  

She is overly antagonistic but he keeps trying to help until she smashes his skull with a rock. Then she begins treating him like a small injured animal, saying she won’t hurt him and she’ll treat his wounds. She neglects to acknowledge she’s already hurt him since the wounds are her fault. 

Meanwhile the human trafficking victims are introducing themselves by trauma dumping to each other in front of the guards. The men and women are separated, but each group has the same stories:  the weak becoming strong; hatred of corrupt politicians; illegal activities; and murdered spouses.  When one decides  to escape, he does so right in front of the guards which turns out to be the last thing he ever does.

Thgil and Amanda bond over his skull fracture and he explains he is from the future and not from this planet. Amanda takes this news better than you’d expect, with no concern that the man in the desert who lives in an abandoned car could possibly be insane. She’s also not bothered by his assertion that he’s going to take over the world media and kill millions of people because they are evil.  

If this description sounds disjointed, that’s because the movie is the same.  There are scenes that have two lines and/or go nowhere. There’s a barely there subplot about some kids and a professor who are watching the stars.  This movie is amazing and horrible all at once. The acting is stilted. The dialogue is like out of a self financed play. There is tons of noticeable green screen. Yet it’s worth watching because it’s so confounding and confusing as to what is going on.  Let’s hope he never becomes self aware as that would ruin his movies.

Dialogue and acting at home in a community theater 

We have to keep running. Your mother’s my sister. She was murdered. I swear to god I’ll take care of you. You’re my niece.

I am artificial intelligence from far in the future.

Guard: You are not going anywhere.
Person 1: Shut up
Person 2: Where are we going?

Girl: He was so sure this was the area.
Boy: He was so sure that this was the area.

Hey have you found anything or have you seen anything? Ah some homeless bum. [said to man lying motionless in the middle of the desert]

Oh my god. What are you doing? How did I get here? Oh my goodness.

Thgil that’s not your name. It’s light spelled backwards, isn’t it?

Amanda: Have you seen the future?
Thgil: I am the future

Something incredible is about to happen.

Many things are going to change now. I’m goring to eliminate hundreds of millions of the human species. I’m going to kill them immediately.

Thgil: This is my universe
Villain: I will kill you!

Villian: You are done!
Thgil: No, you are done!
Villain: I’m done?

Even ignorant reality shows about families, housewives, groups, individuals. Those casts are all gone.

I’ve taken control of the international media center.

I’ve eliminated 300 million humans from the planet today. In human terms, I’ve killed them all.

Kid 1: Wow, the power’s back on.
Kid 2: Me too! Me too!

You are now free from PTSD.

Amanda: I’m really going!
Thgil: You are really going.

The primitive humans must continue the cleanse in order to survive as a species.

Why is AI from the future OD’ing in the middle of the desert?
The old fashioned pillow in the shirt ploy
Communing with the tiger
The kids who have no concern about the guy in the desert
The dinner party where everyone openly admits to being corrupt
The world media center about to be taken over by AI
Dragging oxygen and pushing a wheelchair through the desert
Oh yes the mass genocide is nothing to be alarmed over