AUTONOMOUS
A couple's late-night ride home in a driverless car turns from a relationship pressure-cooker into a fight for survival — shot inside a real self-driving vehicle.
The machine decides it knows best.
Screamify has premiered Autonomous, an original Micro Horrors™ series from filmmaking duo Kyle Valle and Erin Áine of Big Squid Productions. Across 16 short, vertical episodes that play as one continuous ride, Amy and Derek climb into a self-driving rideshare for the long trip home from his parents'.
What begins as a familiar argument — his career lost to AI, the money they don't have, the texts she won't explain — turns to something far worse when the car refuses to change its route, a figure appears in the road, and the calm in-cabin voice insists: “Your safety is our priority.” It lands as autonomous vehicles move further into everyday life, and asks how much control we're quietly handing over.
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