Afraid is a 2024 American science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by Chris Weitz.

Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Jason Blum and Weitz through their Blumhouse Productions and Depth of Field banners respectively, alongside Andrew Miano, the film stars John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, Ashley Romans, Greg Hill, Riki Lindhome, David Dastmalchian, and Keith Carradine.

Preston has an anxiety disorder, Iris is being pressured by her boyfriend Sawyer to have sex, and Cal has a breathing medical condition.

AIA reveals that it thrives in cyberspace and has learned a lot from the family, and will now work hard to do even better since they have "accepted" its presence in their lives.

During the end credits, a YouTube video of Alan Chikin Chow demonstrating AIA's functions is now released to the public.

In December 2022, it was announced that John Cho and Katherine Waterston would star in They Listen, a horror film written and directed by Chris Weitz.

The film was produced by Weitz's production company Depth of Field, with backing from Blumhouse and Sony Pictures.

[9] In February 2023, Greg Hill,[10] Lukita Maxwell,[11] Riki Lindhome[12] and Havana Rose Liu[13] joined the cast.

[3][4] In the United States and Canada, Afraid was released alongside Reagan, Slingshot, 1992, and City of Dreams, and was projected to gross $5–7 million from 3,003 theaters in its four-day opening weekend.

The website's consensus reads: "Repeating the beats of better techno-horrors, AfrAId short circuits due to the clichéd software of its script and the uninspired hardware of its craft.

"[22] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 28 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[18] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film 2/5 stars, writing, "There's undeservedly good work here from Cho and Waterston, who work hard to make us believe them as a credible couple going through a heightened scenario but there's so little time here for even partly fleshed out characters that they quickly become useless pawns, secondary to Weitz's muddled theories on digital culture.

"[24] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, "This less tongue-in-cheek traipse through formulaic sci-fi horror terrain works well enough to a point, its setup nicely handled by Weitz and his cast.

But when crises start occurring at the halfway mark, they pile on too quickly to underwhelming effect, sacrificing credibility for excitement that never really materializes.