• TAU

  • Noga Landau
  • Available
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
  • 2014
  • Black List
  • 75.6
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Market: Wed, 11 Jun 2014
AgentDana Harris, Meyash Prabhu, Ryan Feldman (WME)
ManagerAdam Simpson-Marshall (Caliber)
A woman held captive in the futuristic smart house of a psychopathic programmer realizes that her only hope of escape lies in turning the house’s sapient computer against its creator.
In the near future, a woman's only hope for survival lies on befriending the AI that controls the house where she is being held captive by a psychopathic programmer.
A woman held against her will in the futuristic home of a psychopathic genius befriends the house's nearly sentient operating system in her attempts to escape.
After being kidnapped by a sadistic computer programmer and locked in his smart house, a young woman becomes friends with his sentient home computer system in order to escape.
Film
Mainstream (studio), High Concept, Female Protagonist, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller, Hostage, Dark, Futuristic, Kidnap, Murder, Survival, Computer, Death, Escape, Female, Gory, Home, Killer, Robot, Serial Killer, Suspenseful, Technology, Violence/Violent
102
R
Ultra High
F
Unspecified
24
Attractive
Ex Machina, The Collection, Saw, Her, Black Mirror
Near future, about one month.
90% in a futuristic home (70% in the modern house, 25% in its grimy basement, 5% in its exterior). There are also scenes in a sleazy nightclub, a backroom, the slums and an apartment in the slums.
At a nightclub, JULIA (20s) cons a PARTY BOY (ADULT) out of his wallet and cellphone.

A mysterious man in a coat ALEX (30s) watches her leave the club. Julia takes the loot to a QUEENPIN (50s), and the Queenpin gives her a small amount of money. Julia goes home, unsatisfied.

At home, she is attacked. She wakes up wearing a muzzle in a basement in an electric cage with two other girls, KAREN (ADULT) and SARAH (ADULT). When the owner of the house comes down, clad in a leather mask, Karen grovels at his feet. He pulls her out.

The next day it's Sarah's turn to go up with the man. The sounds of her screaming reach the basement. On day 3, it's Julia's turn, and he feeds her after presumably raping her. When she asks why he took her, he says because she wanted to be taken.

On day 6, Julia steals a pair of pliers and forces Karen to help her break their binds and muzzles. Reluctantly, she complies. Julia escapes using makeshift insulated gloves by causing an explosion. The three girls run up into the beautiful futuristic home.

They make their way to the kitchen, but the appliances...