Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.
Black Box is a solid genre entry from Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology. The premise of experimental memory therapy revealing a disturbing identity crisis has genuine philosophical intrigue, and the emotional grounding of a father-daughter relationship gives it sentimental weight. The acting, particularly Mamoudou Athie, is earnest and committed, elevating familiar material. However, the cinematography is functional rather than distinctive, leaning on standard horror visual grammar. The ending stumbles, resolving its identity horror in a somewhat rushed and conventional manner that undercuts the more unsettling implications built up earlier. Novelty is moderate — the body-horror-meets-memory-loss concept borrows from established sci-fi horror territory but finds a reasonably distinct emotional angle through its family dynamics.