‘SOULM8TE’ Trailer Unleashes a Sexy, Deadly AI Thriller Set in the ‘M3GAN’ Universe
From the studio that brought you Five Nights at Freddy’s and Obsession, Blumhouse Atomic Monster launches the newest android that is sure to light your fire while keeping you on the edge of your seat.
Booting up to fulfill your every need, anticipate your every desire, and love you unconditionally, director and co-writer Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) delivers a provocative thriller that blurs the line between coded devotion and obsession in SOULM8TE, the first movie in the M3GAN-verse.
Unnerving, sexy, suspenseful, and darkly compelling, Dread Central has the trailer and art for SOULM8TE, which follows a grieving engineer tasked with testing a ruthless tech giant’s new artificially intelligent android. But when he attempts to program her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops needs of her own – unleashing a relentless spree of precision-engineered mayhem.
The trailer looks like Obsession, only with an AI girlfriend, with shades of Companion mixed in as well. It looks like a fun, Blumhouse-produced high-tech thriller where a love robot goes full Glenn Close and becomes dangerously obsessed with her owner. While it doesn’t seem to have the same cultural hook that made Obsession such a breakout, it certainly looks like a goofy, over-the-top, cheesy good time that could make for a very entertaining watch when it hits digital this August.
SOULM8TE features performances from Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise, Monolith), David Rysdahl (“Alien: Earth”, “Fargo”), Claudia Doumit (Where’d You Go, Bernadette, “The Boys”), and Arty Froushan (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, “Daredevil: Born Again”).
It premieres at home exclusively on digital platforms to watch with no ads or subscription required starting August 1, 2026, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
“When Blumhouse Atomic Monster first approached me about an erotic thriller set in the M3GAN-verse, I thought, are you insane? But something drew me in,” said Dolan. “We exist in a bizarre time where companies sell us ‘connection’ through apps, algorithms, and AI. Yet those are the same forces pulling us apart.
“The lonelier we get, the more dependent we become on the tools doing the pulling,” Dolan continued. “SOULM8TE is a movie about that vicious cycle. It is a satirical, unhinged movie that explores desire, obsession, autonomy and control. It’s a movie that knows how ridiculous it is, and I’d argue it’s best watched the way you’d watch Basic Instinct or Showgirls now, with friends, a drink in hand, and zero shame about shouting at the screen.”
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