Mini Review - Debug

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

Guilty Pleasures #23 - Robot Overlords

To draw this year to the close, I’m going to be looking at 4 lesser known films and 1 big but ultimately sh*t adaptation. The first of these is Robot Overlords

Made in my home country of the United Kingdom (the word British is used by Politicians and Marketing companies, it’s rarely used by English/Scottish/Irish people, at least few that I’ve heard) anyway, this film was released in the UK in 2014 and in the US in 2015

Made with a low $21m budget, it doesn’t appear that film got a wide release, only being in 30 cinemas in the UK, as such what research I found seems to imply that this film did not make a return on that budget. The few critics that rated it on Rotten Tomatoes found in their favour, gaining a 60% rating, but it only rates 23% with audiences. IDMb ranked it somewhere in between with a 4.6/10.