{"id":681630,"date":"2026-07-09T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681630\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:54:19","slug":"sentient-android-sci-fi-horror-soulm8te-trailer-starring-lily-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681630\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentient Android Sci-Fi Horror ‘Soulm8te’ Trailer Starring Lily Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\t\t\tSentient Android Sci-Fi Horror ‘Soulm8te’ Trailer Starring Lily Sullivan<\/p>\n

by Alex Billington<\/a>\t\t
July 8, 2026
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“People are going to try and get in the way… because they don’t understand what we have.” It’s true AI love! Universal & Blumhouse have revealed the official trailer for Soulm8te, a robot horror<\/a> spin-off movie heading direct-to-VOD this summer. They finally set an official release for this \u2013 it was supposed to open in theaters earlier this year, but now it’s being dumped on VOD. You’ll understand why watching this trailer. It just doesn’t look good enough, and after the box office bomb of M3gan 2.0<\/a> they don’t want to take this risk. Soulm8te is described as a ’90s-style erotic thriller with a “new technological twist.” An engineer receives an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his wife. Trying to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate. Starring Lily Sullivan, David Rysdahl, and Claudia Doumit, along with Arty Froushan, Elijah Cook, Emma Ramos, Mara Huf, Isabelle Bonfrer, Jon Tarcy, and Ossian Perret. It’s kind of a M3gan spin-off but not really connected, meant to be a standalone AI robot horror movie of its own. “Dolan has expertly blended tech paranoia with erotic thriller \u2013\u00a0which is just as fun as that sounds, but it also has more on its mind than you might think.” Enjoy.<\/p>\n

Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Kate Dolan’s sci-fi horror Soulm8te, direct from YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Unnerving, suspenseful, and darkly compelling, this sci-fi thriller Soulm8te follows a grieving engineer (David Rysdahl) tasked with testing a ruthless tech giant’s new AI companion (Lily Sullivan). But when he attempts to reprogram her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops needs of her own – unleashing a relentless spree of precision-engineered mayhem. Soulm8te is directed by the Irish genre filmmaker Kate Dolan<\/a>, director of the film You Are Not My Mother<\/a> previously, plus a few short films and episodes of the series “Kin” and “The Tourist”. The screenplay is written by Rafael Jordan and Kate Dolan; from a story by James Wan & Ingrid Bisu & Rafael Jordan. Produced by James Wan at Atomic Monster and Jason Blum at Blumhouse. Universal At Home & Blumhouse release Dolan’s Soulm8te horror movie direct-to-VOD starting on August 1st, 2026<\/a> coming up soon this summer. Details on the official site<\/a>. Anyone want to watch this?<\/p>\n

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