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After Being Mysteriously Pulled, the ‘Countdown’ App That “Predicts When You’ll Die” Has Returned
What if an app could tell you how long you’ve got left before you die? That’s the premise behind Justin Dec‘s new horror film Countdown, which STXfilms will release on October 25.
The titular “Countdown” app was of course made up for the movie, but after seeing the trailer, UK-based horror fan Ryan Boyling was inspired to actually create the app for real.
Like in the film, the app will provide a (fictional!) date and time of death.
The app quickly shot to the top of Apple’s app store with millions of downloads, but then it mysteriously vanished shortly after we published an article about it. Spooky…
But it’s now live once more, available through the App Store and Google Play!
You can also check out a new clip from the movie below.
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.”
Jordan Calloway, Talitha Bateman, Tichina Arnold, P.J. Byrne and Peter Facinelli also star.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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