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Countdown (2019)

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A 2019 American Supernatural Horror written and directed by Justin Dec that has a young woman (Elizabeth Lail) downloading an app that predicts when she will die and ends up in a fight for her life.The movie also stars Jordan Calloway, Talitha Bateman, Tichina Arnold, P. J. Byrne, Peter Facinelli, Anne Winters, Matt Letscher, and Tom Segura.It was released on October 25, 2019.
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Simple Solution Won't Work
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Simple Solution Won't Work: Halfway through the movie, the heroes simply get a guy to hack into the app's files and change a few numbers around. Of course, it can't possibly be that easy and the dates revert back a few hours later.
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Fright Beside Them
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Fright Beside Them: Quinn and Matt spend the night together, convinced they have thwarted the curse. In the middle of the night, Quinn hears creaking floorboards from outside the room and sees a shadow under the door. Frightened, she tries to wake up Matt, who is sleeping behind her with his arm draped over her body, but he does not respond no matter how many times she shakes his arm and calls his name. The bedroom door slowly opens... To reveal Matt, who asks "Yo, are you calling my name?" Shocked, Quinn looks down to see that the hand next to her is now a demonic claw, which seizer her, drags her under the covers, and attacks her.
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Abandoned Area
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Abandoned Area: The hospital has an entire wing that's completely empty, supposedly under renovations. Most of the movie's climax takes place there.
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Curse Escape Clause
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Curse Escape Clause: The titular app is eventually revealed to be a curse inflicted by a demon; anyone who downloads the app will die at the time indicated, and will suffer if they attempt to avoid their fate. A priest eventually determines that the entire app will be defeated and everyone who used it will become safe if they can prove the app "wrong", either by keeping someone alive beyond the time they were meant to die or killing someone before the app's predicted time of death.
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You Can't Fight Fate
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You Can't Fight Fate: The app ensures that everyone who uses it will die at the time indicated on the countdown, even if they attempt to avoid their fate; the film opens with a girl choosing to walk home rather than get in a car with her drunk boyfriend, and ultimately she is attacked and killed by a supernatural force at the same moment as her boyfriend crashes his car.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Doctor Sullivan attempted to force Quinn out of her job by claiming that she sexually harassed him when it was the other way around. Ultimately Quinn fails to kill him to "beat" the app, but is able to expose him and encourage others to come forward.
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The End... Or Is It?
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The End... Or Is It?: The movie ends on a notification that the Countdown app was updated.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Surprisingly, Quinn herself gets zero consequences for her premeditated murder attempt using medical supplies. Even if Sullivan has a history of being a creep, that's grounds for at the very least getting barred from ever working in medicine again.
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Magical Defibrillator
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Magical Defibrillator: Having failed to kill Doctor Sullivan to beat the app, Quinn instead deliberately overdoses herself after instructing her sister to inject her with Naxolone afterwards, beating the app.
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Alliterative Name: Matt Monroe.
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Post-Modern Magik
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Post-Modern Magik: The entire film is about a demonic phone app. It's eventually revealed the demon used to do his job using parchment in ancient times and simply updated the medium in the modern era.
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One-Word Title: Countdown.
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Acceptable Targets
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Acceptable Targets: At one point, the protagonists ponder the idea of getting someone else to download the app so they can take a look at the EULA. Of course, siccing the demon on another victim is not something they want to do... until it turns out the grumpy old guy next to them at the bar is a Conspiracy Theorist, which makes it totally okay.
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Tagline: "If you could find out exactly when you're going to die... would you want to know?".
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