Not particularly — Ex Machina's appeal is atmospheric or thematic rather than overtly scary. As a artificial intelligence film, it scored 1.0/10 for fear, 8.0/10 for atmosphere, and 8.2/10 overall on Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

What are some films like Ex Machina?

Films similar to Ex Machina on Darkly include Requiem for a Dream (2000), Nightcrawler (2014), Tarot (2024) — selected by cosine similarity on the 4-dimensional curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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artificial-intelligence

Ex Machina

2014 · R · 1h 48m

There is nothing more human than the will to survive.

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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