Choose or Die (2022)

April 18, 2022 8:04 PM

After firing up a lost 80s survival horror game, a young coder unleashes a hidden curse that tears reality apart, forcing her to make terrifying decisions and face deadly consequences.

A Netflix original.

posted by DirtyOldTown (5 comments total)

I'm hearing mixed things about this film, but will see it anyway, because the director's short films are terrific.

Check out this two minute wonder which is scary and a complete story, even in the short runtime:

Floor 9.5
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:54 AM on April 19, 2022 [4 favorites]

Meakins has more good stuff on his Vimeo page. He also made a pilot that didn't get picked up starring Paul McGann called Fables of Forgotten Things.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:03 AM on April 19, 2022

Check out this two minute wonder which is scary and a complete story, even in the short runtime:

Floor 9.5 vimeo

Oh man, my friend showed me this and it fucked me RIGHT on up.
posted by showbiz_liz at 12:30 AM on April 22, 2022 [1 favorite]

Floor 9.5 seems a little too on the nose like middle management. Frightening indeed.
posted by Johnny Hazard at 8:40 PM on April 22, 2022

It's weird how clear it is that all of the settings and actors are UK, even as they attempt to use American accents and tweak signs and details enough to pretend it is happening in the US.

The director stages several solid to good scenes, befitting his background in shorts. But the script just isn't here and the main actors are not great.

Isaac seems to be working on a game called Ghoster, which is a project Meakins has shot test footage for and released on his Vimeo.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:48 AM on April 28, 2022