Though not without its moments, Appofeniacs is a meandering commentary on the ways in which deepfakes are corrosive to the world around us, an especially relevant message in the current era of fake news. However, as a topic, the ills of AI has been trendy for several years, so writer-director Chris Marrs Piliero doesn’t have much to add to the conversation. Instead, he takes an idea that is already becoming overplayed and attempts to infuse it with Quentin Tarantino-style dialogue, violence, and story structure. Tarantino, he is not; we’re left with a messy knock-off that equates to “what if Tarantino directed an episode of Black Mirror?”