Aside the
odd episode of Doctor who, I rarely delve into the Horror Genre. Whilst many
spent October celebrating Halloween with scary movies, I didn’t even do a movie
review. Yeah… I don’t like horror movies; I don’t really get them… I don’t
watch a movie to be scared, I watch to be entertained and I don’t associate the
two like some people do. If you do like scary movies, that’s fine, all power to
you
But like
Doctor Who, our movie here has science fiction elements incorporated with the
horror aspects. Debug is the brainchild of David Hewlett who would write and
direct this movie. He was apparently inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, I wish
I could go into that but I haven’t seen it (feel free to deduct nerd points for
that) and his initial pitch was to do a story from the perspective of Hal 9000,
the villain of the story. His argument was that Hal 9000 wasn’t so much a
villain but someone defending his right to exist. His pitch was deemed too artsy
and it got rewritten into this film
I was
originally intending to do this as either a rage issues or guilty pleasure
review, but there really isn’t enough material for me to cover in the 82-minute
runtime for that. In fact, whilst I am giving this movie a re-watch for the
review, I’m reviewing this off my initial watch, using the second to solidify
the points I’m making. With that said let’s take a look
