Stewart Sugg

Movie of the Week: February 21, 2026: Slaughterbots The Solari Report does not generally promote the horror film genre, but the 2017 “horror short”Slaughterbots is worth eight minutes of your time. The nonprofit Future of Life Institute, which works “to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from large-scale risks,” released the film, and documentary, commercial, and feature film director Stewart Sugg directed it. Wikipedia describes Slaughterbots as an “arms-control advocacy video” dramatizing a “near-future scenario.” In general, the horror genre “seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers,” and Slaughterbots’ “fictional” depiction of drone warfare achieves both. Most of the mini-film depicts a pseudo-TED Talk presentation, in which a tech CEO brags about—and demonstrates—his company’s unstoppable AI operated drones, which can be “trained as a team” and combine cameras, sensors, facial recognition, and anti-sniper features with explosives. Full Report: solari.com/movie-of-the-week… Subscribe to shop.solari.com