Metalhead Surveillance Dogs
The robot 'dogs' that hunt a lone survivor through a black-and-white wasteland.
"Metalhead" is the fifth episode of Black Mirror's fourth series, written by Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade. It was released on Netflix on 29 December 2017 with the rest of series four.
Lore & Background
Shot in black and white, it follows Bella (Maxine Peake) fleeing robotic "dogs" after an unexplained collapse of society. The dogs were modelled on Boston Dynamics robots such as BigDog; filming took place in England, with Lidar scans used for the shots from a dog's point of view. At 41 minutes it is the second-shortest episode after "Mazey Day".
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