The problem child of a family has to save his and his parents life when a hacker is keeping them hostage in their own house by using the smart home devices as weapons in order to let them die of thirst.
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The problem child of a family has to save his and his parents life when a hacker is keeping them hostage in their own house by using the smart home devices as weapons in order to let them die of thirst.
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“When their billion dollar smart home is hacked, the family black sheep must use his wits and his programming skills to save his upper-crust kin from the madman who’s holding them hostage by using their?own home as a deadly weapon.”
Just so you know, the premise of being held hostage in a smart home was done 40 years ago.
However the good news:
1: The movie, “Demon Seed” isn’t well remembered
2: The antagonist was a thinking computer not a person
It’s not a bad movie and it’s based on an early work of ‘Dean R. Koonz’
But you should know it is out there, so if anyone makes a comparison you won’t be taken off guard
(This is a good concept and will probably be more relevant today {And scary} than it was back in the 70’s, definitely a solid idea)
I remember Demon Seed, both the book and the movie. The movie is good, but the end is chilling.
it is strange, how Dean R. Koonz who was the best selling writer of thriller and horror during the 80’s and beginning of the 90’s (outselling Stephen King) has completely disappeared from the general public conscience. Maybe because none of the movies based on his book have had any major success.
One thing missing from the Logline is why his house has been hacked. Is the hacker after something inside the house a la?Panic Room, or is it more personal? Who is the villain?
Check the movie 3615 code P?re No?l, also released in the U.S under the title Game Over.?it is an French horror/thriller movie about a precocious kid trapped in a high tech (for the time) mansion attacked by a deranged killer. It is famous for being the inspiration of?Home Alone. The director and script writer Ren? Manzor had sent a copy of his script and movie to a Hollywood producer who told him to rewrite it as a comedy for U.S audience. He refused and strange coincidence a year later a movie based on a kid trapped alone during Christmas is released… Ren? Manzor sued and years later, the lawsuit was settled out of court. The strangest thing is that despite having no U.S career, he suddenly directed episodes of the TV series?Young Indiana Jones that happen to be produced by the very same company he was suing…
An interesting premise, but I find the logic a bit hard to accept.
Why MUST this kid save them? What happened to the other members of the family that only he can save them all?
Secondly, as a former problem child myself, I know that that description could very easily be misinterpreted as the family simply not understanding him instead of it being a genuine character flaw. What if he were selfish or spoilt instead? This way he would have to change before he would be able to help the family.
The dramatic solution is easy and low tech: break a window.
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I don’t see an insurmountable dramatic problem here.