History Film / BloodMachines

Space-junkers Vascan, Lago and their A.I. Tracey have hunted and shot down a mysterious biopunk ship named the Mima. When the ship births a mysterious entity, they are told to follow it to wherever it is headed and find themselves in a beautiful, yet surreal nightmare that they may be unable to awaken from.

* StrawMisogynist: Vascan sees the female-coded AI of his ship with contempt, finds the idea of the Mima's all-female crew distasteful and kidnaps one of them while threatening to use her as a sex-slave. Even when he sees them perform ''actual magic'', he continues to treat Corey with contempt. It's implied that the organization that built these ships is this way in general, as they apparently designed their ship's AI bodies to act as [[SexBot sex bots]], modeled their flagship with dozens of statues of bound women adorning the outer hull, and almost certainly knowingly began the process of enslaving the AmbiguouslyHuman souls to power and run their starships.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Lago is kind to Tracey and treats the crew of Mima as people rather than objects of contempt. He even tries to temper Vascan's overt threats of violence towards both Tracey and Corey. [[spoiler: This is why Tracey tries to spare him in the finale.]]
* TrueCompanions: For how awful of a person Vascan is otherwise, and how kind Lago is in contrast, it's notable that the two do seem to care for each others well being. Before venturing into the DerelictGraveyard, Vascan seems genuinely concerned for Lago's health, while Lago reassures him rhat he has a "heart of steel." [[spoiler: When Vascan is being possessed, Lago tries mounting a rescue and for the only time in the film threatens Tracy when she won't let him leave.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Lago treats Tracey in a very kind manner, which is in sharp contrast to Vascan's abuse and outright rape of the AI. As a result, [[spoiler: when Corey is enthralling Vascan and preparing to kill him, Tracey tries to keep Lago from helping him because she doesn't want him to get hurt. Unfortunately, he ends up forcing the issue and dies gasping for breath. ]]

* StrawMisogynist: Vascan sees the female-coded AI of his ship with contempt, finds the idea of the Mima's all-female crew distasteful and kidnaps one of them while threatening to use her as a sex-slave. Even when he sees them perform ''actual magic'', he continues to treat Corey with contempt. It's implied that the culture that build these ships is this way in general, as they apparently designed their ship's AI bodies to act as [[SexBot sex bots]], modeled their flagship with dozens of statues of bound women adorning the outer hull, and almost certainly knowingly began the process of enslaving the AmbiguouslyHuman souls to power and run their starships.

* HumanoidAbomination: The woman that emerges from the wreckage of the Mima looks like a human woman, but it's skin takes on a purple, phosphorescent hue and has a glowing inverted cross on her stomach. Tracy, Vascan and Lago's AI, seems to think that it ''is'' the ship even when it emerges as a {{Human Alien|s}}.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Mima has a "soul" of some kind that kept the ship functioning, and once it was destroyed said soul escaped in the form of a human woman. Later on, it's revealed that seemingly all starships, including Tracey, have a soul at their heart as well. And that's not even getting into the bizarre organic nature of the ships beyond this.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Lago treats Tracey in a very kind manner, which is in sharp contrast to Vascan's abuse and outright rape of the AI. As a result, [[when Corey is enthralling Vascan and preparing to kill him, Tracey tries to keep Lago from helping him because she doesn't want him to get hurt. Unfortunately, he ends up forcing the issue and dies gasping for breath. ]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: Tracey's mechanical body resembles a woman bound, gagged and restricted in a harness that evokes physical and sexual torture, showing how A.I. are mistreated as tools and beasts of burden by the men that use them. [[spoiler:After she turns against Lago, she manifests as a nude, human body similar to all of the other entities, freed of her shackles.]]

* StrawMisogynist: Vascan sees the female-coded AI of his ship with contempt, finds the idea of the Mima's all-female crew distasteful and kidnaps one of them while threatening to use her as a sex-slave. Even when he sees them perform ''actual magic'', he continues to treat Corey with contempt.

* HumanoidAbomination: The woman that emerges from the wreckage of the Mima looks like a human woman, but it's skin takes on a purple, phosphorescent hue and has a glowing inverted cross on her stomach. Tracy, Vascan and Lago's AI, seems to think that it ''is'' the ship even when it emerges as a {{Human Alien|s}} .

Space-junkers Vascan, Lago and their A.I. Tracey have hunted and shot down a mysterious biopunk ship named the Mima. When the ship births a mysterious entity, they are told to follow it to wherever it is headed and find themselves in a beautiful, yet surreal nightmare that they may be unable to awaken from

Space-junkers Vasca, Lago and their A.I. Tracey have hunted and shot down a mysterious biopunk ship named the Mima. When the ship births a mysterious entity, they are told to follow it to wherever it is headed and find themselves in a beautiful, yet surreal nightmare that they may be unable to awaken from

* AIIsACrapshoot: Either through magic or covert hacking, Corey somehow reprogrammed Tracey on their way to the DerelictGraveyard.
* AndIMustScream: After Corey kills him, Vascan is later resurrected [[spoiler:as a tiny component of the biomass that makes up the literal heart of a GiantWoman]].

* MachineWorship: The HumanAliens seem to worship the AI of their ship as a god, it emerging as a godlike being after its "death" leading a lot of credence to this idea. [[spoiler:The fact that Tracey emerges with a body of her own implies that ''all'' AI are divine in some way.]]
* MechanicalAbomination: The HumanoidAbomination the crew encounter at the beginning [[spoiler:is implied to be a form of {{Magitek}} AI the HumanAliens use to control their ships. The first entity first emerges from the "corpse" of the Mima. When Corey turns the DerelictGraveyard into an EldritchStarship, she does this by manifesting a small legion of similar entities, the various ship. One even emerges from Tracey's mechanical body by the end.]]

* SurrealHorror: Who are the HumanAliens Vascan, Lago and Tracy encounter? Their employer wants the Mima, but we never find out ''why''. What exactly is the entity that emerged from the Mima? Why did it travel to the DerelictGraveyard? It's clearly an important site to the HumanAliens, but ''why''? What destroyed so many ships in that area? Was it the HumanAliens? A similar entity?

Space-junkers Vasca, Lago and their AI Tracey have hunted and shot down a mysterious biopunk ship named the Mima. When the ship births a mysterious entity, they are told to follow it to wherever it is headed and find themselves in a beautiful, yet surreal nightmare that they may be unable to awaken from

-> ''While escaping through space, the Mima, a machine with a defective A.A. system, is overtaken by a warship.''\\

* AIIsACrapshoot: Either through magic or covert hacking, Corey somehow reprogrammed Tracey on their way to the DerelictGraveyard. [[spoiler:She

* {{Homage}}: The music and visuals were deliberately made as a throwback to ScienceFiction and progressive rock from TheEighties. The technology has an aged {{Zeerust}} quality one would find in ''Film/Dune1984'' and the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise, lasers look like a lighting effect, all of the music is synth-based and the entire film has a grainy film quality that makes it look like it's being watched on a VHA tape.

* {{Homage}}: The music and visuals were deliberately made as a throwback to ScienceFiction and progressive rock from TheEighties. The technology has an aged {{Zeerust} quality one would find in ''Film/Dune1984'' and the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise, lasers look like a lighting effect, all of the music is synth-based and the entire film has a grainy film quality that makes it look like it's being watched on a VHA tape.

* {{Fanservice}}: The entity that emerges from the Mima takes the form of a naked woman who stays naked throughout the entire film. When the crew follows her through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hyperspace]], we are treated to a very thorough scanning of her profile. [[spoiler:Then in the end of the film. An entire ''legion'' of them emerge from the remains of a DerelictGraveyard and merge into one. Giant. Naked. ''Woman!'']]