‘Upgrade’ Trailer: Brutal, Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Fighting Abound In The Latest From Blumhouse

Jason Blum, and his Blumhouse Productions, is one of the most interesting stories in Hollywood. Starting out by producing micro-budget horror a decade ago (which seems to be all the rage nowadays), Blumhouse Productions has started to broaden its horizons, including films that don’t necessarily fit in that typical horror movie mold, such as last year’s “Sleight.”

With its new film, “Upgrade,” we see that Blumhouse is moving into the new “John Wick” genre of action film. In the first trailer, the plot is laid out. A guy’s wife is murdered during a mugging and he becomes a paraplegic. With a new, experimental technology, he gets implanted with an AI that gives him use of his legs again, but also some other upgrades (get it?). The rest of the footage shows our hero beating the ever living crap out of nameless goons in the most violent ways imaginable.

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As mentioned above, “Upgrade” is clearly following in the footsteps of “John Wick” with a truly visceral fighting style that’s hyperkinetic and brutal. Except here, things tend to go to another level. If the fighting in “John Wick” is a 9 on the brutality scale, then “Upgrade” turns everything up to 11.

“Upgrade” comes from writer-director Leigh Whannell, who is best known for his work writing parts of the “Saw” and “Insidious” franchises but made his directorial debut on “Insidious: Chapter 3.” Whannell clearly has a strong relationship with Blumhouse, and “Upgrade” is yet another collaboration between the filmmaker and the production house.

Logan Marshall-Green, who starred in the incredible film “The Invitation” and the not-so-incredible “Prometheus,” plays our hero, with the super cool name Grey Trace, who gets the “upgrade.”

“Upgrade” is scheduled to be released in theaters June 1. We have the red band trailer below. However, if you want to watch something with less gore and cursing, then you probably shouldn’t see this film anyway, but we still linked to the green band trailer, just in case.