Forced to hide out at a state of the art smart home, a young woman on the run is terrorized by ROMI, its sinister digital assistant.
Direction
Cuffley squeezes maximum tension from one location.
Acting
Barajas carries the entire film with raw panic.
Sound
ROMI's voice will haunt your Alexa dreams.
Director
Robert Cuffley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Calgary during COVID, the single-location premise was partly budget necessity that became thematic strength.
Released as M3GAN mania peaked, ROMI got buried — but its lo-fi dread arguably ages better than the camp competitor.
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