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    Companion (2025)

    What was meant to be a relaxing weekend at a billionaire’s lakeside house turns into a nightmare for a group of friends full of secrets.

    Thoroughly enjoyable, with a lot of food for thought. Marrying comedy and horror has never been easy for either the writer, director, or editor. As if making an audience laugh or scaring them is not hard enough, how much you’ll make them laugh, how much you’ll scare them and how you’ll combine these two extremes back to back is beyond understanding. This is what writer/director Drew Hancock has managed to achieve, though: to scare you and then make you laugh and the opposite — sequence after sequence after sequence. Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, Rupert Friend, and Marc Menchaca (special guest) share Hancock’s dream and deliver funny performances while going berserk when needed.

    The producers behind Barbarian (2022): https://kaygazpro.com/barbarian-2022-horror-thriller/ and Hancock create a horror/comedy that fits perfectly into today’s society. In a kinda woke manner (Barbarian was kinda woke, too), it satirises women’s position in the US during the 50s and 60s (check Iris’ outfit and hairstyle), patriarchy and whatever is left of it today, our relationship with AI and the AI girlfriends/boyfriends, and the way today’s generation handles situations nowadays. The result pays off. Think of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the human hybris in a modern and satiric version. If you are looking for a less satirical and more philosophical way to examine the relationship between AI, robotics and society, watch Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014).

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