When does your inspiration become so heavy that the creation ceases to have an existence on its own? American music producer turned filmmaker Flying Lotus’ (popularly known as FlyLo) “Ash” is a sci-fi horror that never offers a shred of originality. I mean filmmakers have been inspired by other movies for as long as the beginning of motion picture itself. Still, when your final product has nothing to offer beyond just elevated horror vibes, there’s a big hole in the continuum that cannot be filled.

The plot of “Ash” follows Riya (Eiza González), an astronaut who wakes up in her space station with her memory almost completely wiped out. Her physical attributes, her training, and her work are still intact in her core, but whatever wiped out all of her crew, who she finds splattered around the space vessel with their heads smashed to smithereens, is nowhere to be...