Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on basement television.
I mentioned yesterday that the They Shoot Zombies list has recently updated. One of the things that happened with the new update is that a couple of movies that I reviewed on my monthly roundups now appear on the list as entries. This means a rewatch, something I’m not really looking forward to in terms of Psycho Goreman, but one I very much looked forward to with Upgrade. It’s been a couple of years since I watched Upgrade, and it’s a film I liked quite a bit the first time through.
It’s also a film that suffers slightly from the fact that it very much plays like a feature-length Black Mirror episode. It kind of speaks to the success of Black Mirror that any dystopic near-future science fiction can easily come across as an episode of the show. Upgrade is a bit more involved than a typical episode, but it wouldn’t shock me if this was at least temporarily conceived of as an episode for an early season.
