Fright Night Horror

Arvi Ragu’s new film CEREBRUM, premiering Sunday April 25 at WorldFest Houston, had to be based on plausible science, as the filmmaker tells us in this insightful interview. Congratulations on the film. When did you come up with the idea for it? Thank you! While ordering Christmas gifts on Amazon a few years ago, I realized the company recommended products based on my purchasing behavior.  The notion of a computer predicting my buying habits intrigued me.  I wondered how long after my death the predictions would continue.  The idea contorted to become a thought experiment about the effect of digital memory existing beyond a body’s death. And did the script change much, over the course of developing the script? Originally, a scientist “resurrected” his girlfriend by loading her social media and digital content onto someone else’s brain.  A cool idea, I reckoned, but I found no heart and soul in the idea; the story needed a real human struggle to move forward.  Ev...

Arvi Ragu’s new film CEREBRUM, premiering Sunday April 25 at WorldFest Houston, had to be based on plausible science, as the filmmaker tells us in this insightful interview. Congratulations on the film. When did you come up with the idea for it? Thank you! While ordering Christmas gifts on Amazon a few years ago, I realized the company recommended products based on my purchasing behavior.  The notion of a computer predicting my buying habits intrigued me.  I wondered how long after my death the predictions would continue.  The idea contorted to become a thought experiment about the effect of digital memory existing beyond a body’s death. And did the script change much, over the course of developing the script? Originally, a scientist “resurrected” his girlfriend by loading her social media and digital content onto someone else’s brain.  A cool idea, I reckoned, but I found no heart and soul in the idea; the story needed a real human struggle to move forward.  Ev...

Arvi Ragu’s new film CEREBRUM, premiering Sunday April 25 at WorldFest Houston, had to be based on plausible science, as the filmmaker tells us in this insightful interview. Congratulations on the film. When did you come up with the idea for it? Thank you! While ordering Christmas gifts on Amazon a few years ago, I realized the company recommended products based on my purchasing behavior.  The notion of a computer predicting my buying habits intrigued me.  I wondered how long after my death the predictions would continue.  The idea contorted to become a thought experiment about the effect of digital memory existing beyond a body’s death. And did the script change much, over the course of developing the script? Originally, a scientist “resurrected” his girlfriend by loading her social media and digital content onto someone else’s brain.  A cool idea, I reckoned, but I found no heart and soul in the idea; the story needed a real human struggle to move forward.  Ev...