The Beast Bonello's plots remain enigmatic, his worldview continues to rattle, and he accomplishes so much without seeming to expend a lot of effort. In The Beast Bonello presents a tragic three-tiered future world, in which he mixes a Henry James novella with the rantings of a California incel serial killer. In Coma, a teenage girl self-confined in her bedroom during the pandemic enacts a digitized ghost story with Barbies. Both movies investigate free will in the coming AI age, and the desire to confront fear, to not be dead, and to go elsewhere when there’s nowhere else to go.