It’s scary how a lot AI-generated imagery is advancing nowadays. We’ve gone from making barely recognizable photos only some years in the past to more moderen creations just like the Harry Potter forged as Disney characters or the Buddies forged as health club rats that just about pull themselves out of the “Uncanny Valley.” I’m often somebody who isn’t down for these kinds of issues. Nevertheless, I can’t cease watching this AI video reimagining The Last of Us as a gritty ‘80s horror flick.
After spending an excessive amount of time with all of the Last of Us Season 2 discourse on-line because the present returned to the 2025 TV schedule in April, I was actually excited when I stumbled upon this video by YouTuber Sora AI. The content material creator takes the unique recreation and makes it appear to be a few of the finest horror motion pictures with its grittiness and AI-generated imagery. I’ll talk about it additional after the bounce:
Significantly, how nice does this video look? Not like the present season of The Last of Us, which appears means too clear, this practically two-and-a-half-minute video is soiled, gritty, sweaty and terrifying as all hell. These sound results, the droning music monitor and the off-putting visuals all create an expertise that’s each distinctive and wholly acquainted.
It’s wild watching scenes just like the chaotic and harrowing opening sequence, Joel and Ellie confronting an irate Invoice in his walled-off metropolis and the massive showdown with the Fireflies, made to appear to be one thing out of considered one of George A. Romero’s finest motion pictures. In truth, there have been instances when I needed to remind myself that this wasn’t a younger Cailee Spaeny enjoying Ellie however as a substitute the creation of some generative AI program.
This Entire Video Is Nice, But Two Moments Stand Out The Most
Whereas the entire AI-generated reimagining of The Last of Us is completely terrifying and moody as hell, there are two moments stand out essentially the most. One despatched a shiver down my backbone and the opposite my my coronary heart sink.
I’m not saying The Last of Us Season 1 didn’t do a great job of recreating the winter portion of the sport with its model of David (Scott Shepherd). However, this AI video brings the character’s villainy and creepiness out extremely in only some seconds. That grin, these useless eyes, and unsettling physique language ship a shiver down my backbone.
Moments earlier, the video introduces Henry and Sam, two of essentially the most tragic characters from the primary recreation and first season of TLoU. The photographs of a younger Sam enjoying with a Transformers-like toy and Henry placing his fingers within the air are so lifelike, so detailed, and so tragic, particularly realizing how their tragic tales finish.
Although I’m nonetheless not absolutely down with every thing individuals are doing with AI nowadays, these little movies are enjoyable to look at and much more enjoyable to speak about. If you wish to say up with the dialog about The Last of Us Season 2, you could need to get caught up by watching all out there episodes with a Max subscription earlier than the massive Season 2 finale hits HBO on Sunday, Could twenty fifth at 9 p.m. ET.