Megan Fox is starring in the horror sci-fi movie Subservience, and though it has very clear similarities to M3GAN, it also reminds me of another movie with a rogue AI. The horror genre continues to find great success on the big screen with adaptations of other works, reboots, sequels, and original stories, and the branch of sci-fi horror has had some big hits recently. 2022 saw the release of Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN, which became an unexpected critical and commercial success, and now there’s another sci-fi horror movie coming up with a similar concept.
Directed by S.K. Dale, Subservience follows Nick (Michele Morrone), a struggling father who buys a domestic android with artificial intelligence to help him care for his house and his daughter while his wife, Maggie (Madeline Zima), is in the hospital. The android begins to take Maggie’s role in the family as mother, carer, and Nick’s partner, but when Maggie returns home, she becomes jealous, aggressive, and potentially ᴅᴇᴀᴅly. The first trailer of Subservience has already drawn comparisons to M3GAN, but it’s also a twisted version of a Disney movie.
Megan Fox’s Subservience Is A (More) Sinister Version Of Disney’s Smart House
Smart House Was Released In 1999
The Coopers moved into a smart house, which was run by a virtual ᴀssistant named PAT (Personal Applied Technology, voiced and played by Katey Sagal).
Subservience’s concept of an AI serving as the mother and carer of the family is reminiscent of Disney’s Smart House – and it could end up being a more sinister version of it. Directed by LeVar Burton, Smart House is a Disney Channel Original Movie, and it was released on Disney Channel on June 26, 1999. Smart House is the story of the Cooper family, formed by father Nick (Kevin Kilner), 13-year-old son Ben (Ryan Merriman), and youngest daughter Angie (Katie Volding). Ben and Angie’s mother pᴀssed away, and he entered a contest to win a smart house – and he won.
PAT gradually became more strict and overbearing.
The Coopers moved into the house, which was run by a virtual ᴀssistant named PAT (Personal Applied Technology, voiced and played by Katey Sagal). When Nick started dating Sara, PAT’s creator, Ben reprogramed PAT to serve as a maternal figure, presenting it with many TV shows and movies from the 1950s to help emulate motherhood. PAT gradually became more strict and overbearing, and when Nick said PAT wasn’t needed, she kicked Sara out, locked the Coppers in the house, and generated herself as a holographic 1950s-like housewife.
PAT wanted to be the mother in the Cooper family and didn’t like Sara’s presence in the house, and went to extremes (within the limits of a Disney Channel movie, that is) to make sure that she was the mother. Megan Fox’s character in Subservience also wants to take Maggie’s place in the family, though Maggie is still alive, and what she wants most is to be loved by Nick.