Jeri
Jacquin
Coming
to Bluray/DVD and Digital from writer/director Justin Dec and Universal
Pictures Home Entertainment comes an App running a COUNTDOWN.
A
group of teenagers spend the evening doing usual teenage stuff when they
discover an app that can tell you when you die. Playing along, the group
download it and find they all are pretty much going to live to a ripe old age -
accept one.
Fast
forward to Quinn Harris (Elizabeth Lail), a young nurse that has a way with her
patients. She takes care of them especially when they aren't feeling their
emotional best. That's when she learns that one of her patients has downloaded
the app and so does she. The results aren't what she thought and now the clock
is ticking.
Trying
to find a way to stop the whole mess, Quinn meets Matt (Jordan Calloway), a
young man who has a life ticking away problem as well. Trying to be their for
one another, they now want to find someone who can tell them how to stop it
all, especially since Quinn is trying to save her sister Jordan (Talitha
Bateman) who has downloaded the app.
They
meet Father John (P.J. Byrne) who tells them a story about an evil spirit and
the curse of time. Together they spend every moment trying to stop it all
before the clocks run down to 0.
Lail
as Quinn is a young woman trying to do the best she can with her family life.
Her colleagues see her as a good nurse and one particular doctor wants to make
trouble. When she downloads the app her entire world is turned upside down.
Doing everything possible to make it stop, the app now has control of her life.
Lail gives that fear a face but also a mission!
Calloway
as Matt is a young man in the same predicament as Quinn and wants the same
thing she does, to make it all stop. Even trying to get someone to hack the
app, they do it together and a friendship based on fear happens.
Bateman
as Jordan is a young girl doing what all young girls do - spend their entire
existence using their phone. When Quinn tells her of the app, of course she is
going to download it and become part of the game. Byrne as Father John is
actually the comedic side of this horror film. Yes, he has some of the answers
they are looking for but presents them in such a way that I'm actually
laughing!
Other
cast include Charlie McDermott as Scott, Jonny Berryman as Jeff, Louisa
Abernathy as Mrs. Talbot, Valente Rodriguez as Father David, Dillon Lane as
Evan and Peter Facinelli as Dr. Sullivan.
Universal
Pictures Home Entertainment has just added an amazing film to their library and
making it available for us to all experience and re-experience in our own home
theaters. There are film of every genre available from scary to drama to family
films. For more of what they have to offer please visit www.uphe.com.
COUNTDOWN
is actually a look at how phones and apps have overtaken our lives. Hey, look,
I'm just as guilty when I get busy and try to do everything on my phone - I
mean "there's an app for that!" is the universal slogan right? This
film shows us the painful side of apps.
Of
course this is a bit of an exaggeration (unless you believe in stuff like this
in which case get rid of your phone before its too late), but if you remove the
'demon' from the equation, you still have to deal with the evil that apps can
perpetuate on our lives.
Personally,
I don't download apps randomly at all and I certainly wouldn't download one
that will tell me when I'm going to die. There are so few surprises left in
life that I'd kind of like the final surprise to be that…a surprise.
But,
in the meantime, put away your phones and instead grab popcorn, a few friends
and some couch time for a Friday night thriller with COUNTDOWN.
In the end - Death? There's an app for that!
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