Blumhouse and Universal Pictures are marketing their new picture SOULM8TE as a spin-off of the very successful M3GAN movie franchise.  M3GAN follows a high-tech doll that gets a little too human and wreaks havoc for its designer and her daughter.  SOULM8TE is more of the classic Fembot trope first seen by most sci-fi fans in The Six Million Dollar Man, but the trope has been around in many incarnations before that.  Only last year Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid starred in the successful movie The Companion, where the sentience of a highly developed robot took over, asking questions like “Am I real?” and whether it’s true that “I think therefore I am.”  The trailers for SOULM8TE don’t seem as compelling as either The Companion or the two M3GAN movies, and it’s never a good sign when a movie is a direct-to-home release.  Maybe one of the more popular streaming services will pick it up eventually.

Take a look at the trailer for SOULM8TE:

Note that, especially in the context of our own Borg Hall of Fame, unless the being has both biological components and technology, we don’t consider it a true borg.  By what we can see in the trailer, the robot character of this movie is just a very human looking robot, so it probably doesn’t have real cells, blood, or other biology to make it a cybernetic organism.

Directed by Kate Dolan and written by Rafael Jordan and Dolan and starring Lily Sullivan, David Rysdahl, and Claudia Doumit, look for SOULM8TE on home video rental services August 1, 2026.

C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg