There are phone apps for everything these days, like telling you when to exercise and reminding you to keep hydrated. Well, how about an app where it will tell you when you’ll die? It doesn’t seem like an app that would sell well but that is what “Countdown” focuses on.
The film is directed and written by Justin Dec, whose previous work includes “Rolling,” which won him the Best Director Award at the 2010 New York Television Festival. This is his first stab directing a horror film, which sees a young nurse download an app that tells her she only has three days to live and she must find a way to extend her time.
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The idea of technology trying to kill someone is something we’ve seen and most likely going to see more of, it started as far back as 2002 with the start of “The Ring” series which sees someone die seven days later after watching a VHS tape.
Then there is something like the “One Missed Call” where people receive voicemails from their future selves telling them when they will die. So we’ve moved on from TV’s to phones to now the apps on your phone trying to take someone out.
But that’s the beauty of technology, its rapidly becoming more advanced and that should both scare and amaze you all at the same time. With it rapidly evolving in the real world, look at how something as simple as a phone app now has the possibility of being the main plot point of a film, it is crazy how these stories have evolved from ghosts and monsters.
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The main character, Quinn, is played by Elizabeth Lail who stars in Netflix’s “You.” The likes of Jordan Calloway (“The Glades”), Talitha Bateman (“Annabell: Creation”), Tichina Arnold (“Little Shop Of Horrors”), P.J. Byrne (“Rampage”) and Peter Facinelli (“Twilight”) all star.
Here is the synopsis:
In ‘Countdown’, when a young nurse (Elizabeth Lail) downloads an app that claims to predict exactly when a person is going to die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and death closing in, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
The STX Films horror will premiere on October 25th (the final countdown begins!). Watch the new trailer below.