The concept of knowing when or how you might die is an interesting one that people have grappled with for centuries, an existential what-would-you-do thought puzzle of sorts. Most people assume they have years to live. But what if you were to die tomorrow? Wouldn’t you try to cheat death? It’s what made the Final Destination movies so compelling, and that concept has been updated with STX Entertainment’s new movie, Countdown.
Countdown is an app (like everything nowadays) that let’s you know when you’re going to die. Most curious people open Countdown and find out they have years to live. When a nurse (played by You actress Elizabeth Lail) downloads the app and finds out she has less than three days to live, it’s a race against the clock to try and survive. As SyFy Wire points out, the trailer feels a little reminiscent of Drag Me to Hell and Final Destination, as its peppered with various death scenarios and spooky demon appendages grabbing and flinging people about.
Check out the trailer below:
via [STX Entertainment]
Darn it.
I was really hoping for a clever movie about knowing when you were going to die and living your final weeks/days/etc. with that knowledge. Instead, it’s a supernatural hit list movie a la Final Destination, with no point other than watching pretty people die gruesome deaths at the whim of a demonic thing that tortures them with advance knowledge first.
Okay, I guess, if you’re into that sort of thing.
This really does look like a reboot of Final Destination.
Didn’t Heinlein write that story? “Lifeline.”
@3, if we are thinking of the same story, “Lifeline” was more about how bureaucracy and other entrenched interests would attack the inventor of the technology. As I recall, the only people who died (before the inventor) were a skeptical reporter and a young couple who came into the office to be tested—the inventor found they were both to die that afternoon, and tried to stall them in his office past the deadline to change their fate, only to have them die in a freak accident on their way out. The inventor learned of his own impending death (at the hands of a hit man hired by the life insurance industry) and put his affairs in order and calmly waited for the end. His friends burned all the envelopes in which he had sealed his predictions about them.
ok… it’s obvious that this app is FAKE!! Come on you really think an app can tell when your gonna die mine said 2 hours and it’s been 1 hour and 45 minutes and I am fine
Cheyenne well okay I get but is pass two hours now are you still alive or what?
bruh i think cheyenne dead
Are you able to get the Countdown app irl? Strange how the weirder and scarier something is, the more I want to try it for myself
If I download this app, I wont die right?