Posted on: October 10th, 2025

Acclaimed indie genre filmmaker B Harrison Smith is officially in production on a groundbreaking new project…a full-length, original horror feature film written and directed by Smith and generated by Hailuo’s Minimax generative AI.

“Slow Burn” features horror favourite, Lauren-Marie Taylor (Friday the 13th Part II, In a Violent Nature) as Donna, a greenhouse proprietor at the centre of the story.

“Think of The Last American Virgin as a horror film,” Smith said.

While AI has been utilised in short-form projects and experimental clips, this marks one of the first attempts to complete a feature length-length narrative entirely through AI-driven production methods.

“This is not about replacing human creativity or “stealing” art,” Smith says. “It’s about exploring what happens when you merge human vision with machine capability. I wrote the original script, and AI is the brush I’m painting with to direct it. People once feared CGI, colour and talking films, too.”

Smith’s production seeks to explore whether AI film can stand alongside traditionally produced cinema and perhaps signal a new era in storytelling.

You can check out the teaser below: