Puzzlehead

Director/Writer: James Bai
Cast: Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro
Runtime: 81 minutes
Year of Production: 2005
Country: United States
Language: English

In a bleak and barren future people have become so few that the only permissible use of technology is for repopulation. Fudging this rule somewhat, a lonely scientist builds a robot companion, an exact likeness of himself. He calls his creation Puzzlehead and trains him to play chess, clean house and spy on Julia, a salesgirl whom the scientist has been secretly coveting.

Once Puzzlehead has glimpsed Julia, his vacuuming and dishwashing no longer hold the same appeal; and as man and machine compete for the same, increasingly bewildered woman, their struggle escalates until only one of them will be left standing. “Mining the Frankenstein myth and finding psychosexual gold, the movie creates a love triangle that seems to share a single disturbed personality.” The New York Times.