The Killer robot itself is a brilliant creation: protagonist Bella and her doomed friends refer to it as a dog, but it is also insect - like and somehow alien. Shot in grainy, digital Black and white - sort of like a mix of 28 Days Later and the high - contrast hell Of Shinya Tsukamotos Tetsuo: Iron Man - Metalhead starts of tense and works its way to an arena of flat - out nightmarishness. Director David Slade has form in tense, blood - curdling horror, and he brings brilliantly lean nastiness to Metalhead - a timeless fable about a bunch of petty thieves who, in the post - apocalyptic future, make the mistake of breaking into an apparently unguarded warehouse. This episode of Black Mirror, Id argue, offers a potential answer: pare damn thing right down to its bare essentials: would - be human target on the run, and homicidal machine in hot pursuit. After quivering slab of weirdness that was Terminator: Genisys, it was wonder what on earth was leave to be do with James Camerons ' ageing killer cyborg franchise.
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