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Countdown (2019)

Countdown poster
Directed by
Justin Dec
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 2,328 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of people download a mobile app that predicts their time of death. They then have to race against the clock to try and change their fate.

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What happens

Countdown is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed and written by Justin Dec, and starring Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Bateman, Tichina Arnold, P.J. Byrne, Peter Facinelli, Anne Winters, and Tom Segura. The plot follows a group of people who discover a mobile app that correctly tells its users when they are going to die. Countdown was theatrically released in the United States on October 25, 2019, by STX Entertainment. It received negative reviews from critics, but grossed $48 million worldwide against a $6.5 million budget, becoming a commercial success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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