Harry Potter-inspired horror film lands US and UK release after being dubbed into English by AI
The film follows a rebellious teenage girl who must learn witchcraft to save her family
A new Spanish-language horror movie from Argentina has landed a UK and US release after being dubbed into English using artificial intelligence.
The Witch Game, from writer-director Fabian Forte, was partly inspired by the Harry Potter series.
The film follows a rebellious teenage girl (Lourdes Mansilla) who receives a gift on her birthday containing a virtual game that transports her into a mysterious occult world where she must learn witchcraft at a medieval school of magic in order to save her family from the devil.
The film will be released in the UK and US in the first three months of 2025.
Forteās previous credits include Mala carne, Retratos del Apocalipsis and the Argentine Film Critics Association Award-nominee La corporación.
Along with Mansilla, the film also stars Ezequiel Rodriguez, Virginia Lombardo, Natalia Grinberg, Alexia Moyano, Martin Borisenko, Sebastian Sinnott and Denise Barbara.

The use of AI in film has been a hot topic as of late, with the likes of Robert Downey Jr and James Gunn firmly speaking out against the technology, whereas individuals such as James Cameron have embraced it.
Speaking at CNBCās Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, Affleck voiced his support for AI but said that it cannot possibly replace āhuman beings making films.ā
When asked if AI should be perceived as a threat, the Oscar winner said: āMovies will be one of the last things, if everything gets replaced, to be replaced by AI.ā
Continuing, the 52-year-old Good Will Hunting star said: āAI can write you excellent, imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan. It cannot write you Shakespeare.ā

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He continued: āWhat AI is going to do is going to disintermediate the laborious, less creative and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to be brought down, that will lower the barrier for entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, that will make it easier for the people that want to make āGood Will Huntingsā to go out and make it.ā
The Argo director added: āThatās how large video models and large language models basically work. Library of vectors of meaning and transformers that interpret it in context, right? But theyāre just cross-pollinating things that exist. Nothing new is created.
āAI for this world of generative video, is going to do key things more, meaning ā I wouldnāt like to be in the visual effects business, theyāre in trouble. Because what costs a lot of money is now going to cost a lot less. And itās going to hammer that space and already is and maybe it shouldnāt take a thousand people to render something but itās not going to replace human beings making films.ā
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