AI Platforms & Assistants I watched a 90-minute AI movie made in just two weeks — and Hollywood can stop worrying, for now Features By Graham Barlow published 16 June 2026 A feature-length AI film sounds like Hollywood’s worst nightmare, but the reality is more complicated When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works . (Image credit: Graham Barlow) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter As the Senior AI Editor at TechRadar, it’s not often I get invited to movie premieres. Yet there I was in a private cinema room in a London hotel, about to watch Hell Grind — a 90-minute AI-generated horror movie that took just two weeks to make. I was there as a guest of Higgsfield , a platform that brings together all the tools needed to make a complete AI movie; and I was about to watch its poster child for the very thing that’s got Hollywood running scared: a purely AI-generated film. As you’d imagine from the title, Hell Grind isn’t a romantic comedy — as one of the other guests remarked, it sounds more like the name of a WWE event. I don’t want to give the plot away, but it involves ancient artifacts that bestow supernatural abilities on humans when activated, and a Japanese-speaking bad guy covered in spikes, who portals into whichever location he detects the artifacts in and attempts to kill whoever possesses them. Latest Videos From Watch full video here: Everything on screen is AI-generated. The human contribution comes in the story, editing, and deciding which AI-generated scenes make the final cut. If you want a good marker for the speed of AI development in movies, when I attended the AI Film Festival in Venice last year the films were typically around five minutes long. Just a year later, movies like Hell Grind can maintain consistent characters and a coherent story for 90 minutes — and it only took two weeks to make the whole thing. You may like Masters of the Universe director has his say on AI use in the entertainment industry This AI-only streaming service launches soon — and filmmakers aren’t happy I asked ChatGPT what to watch across 6 streaming apps — and it nailed it Hell Grind | Official Trailer | Higgsfield Original Series – YouTube Watch On Who’s that guy? Talking to Higgsfield CEO Alex Mashrabov, I learned that the main character in Hell Grind is actually modeled on a real-life Higgsfield employee, who will presumably be going back to analyzing spreadsheets after his 15 minutes of fame are over. The rest of the cast all looked like combinations of famous actors and actresses you’ve seen before, but whose identities you can never quite pin down. I found trying to work out who they resembled surprisingly distracting, and I swear that one of the main actors looked a little too much like Naomi Watts at times. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Leaving aside the ethical questions raised by AI models that appear capable of producing characters who resemble real actors, it’s worth evaluating the movie on its own merits. Surprisingly, the action scenes were often the strongest part of the film. Watching various super-powered heroes and villains duke it out was genuinely entertaining. But at no point did any of it look real. Hell Grind is a horror fantasy, so it could be argued that realism wasn’t the look it was aiming for. Even so, I got the impression that we’re still a long way from AI-generated dialogue scenes that hold up on a big screen, and make us genuinely unsure whether we’re look
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