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  1. Oct 24, 2019 · Countdown’ Review: The Killer Smartphone Horror Subgenre Gets a Slight Upgrade. This time around, it’s an app that’s trying to kill a hapless bunch, but genuinely big laughs and clever nods to...

    • What Happens in Countdown's Ending
    • The Real Meaning Behind The Countdown App
    • The Real Meaning of Countdown's Ending
    • Is Countdown 2 Happening?

    After Doc hacks the Countdown app, Quinn discovers that her sister Jordan (Talitha Bateman, who starred in the Annabelle: Creation movie) has also used it and has slightly less time to live than she does. Doc is able to add time to their countdowns, and the problem is seemingly solved. However, their countdowns are soon mysteriously reset, forcing ...

    While Countdown seems to be about the inevitability of death, its real meaning has more to do with human susceptibility to evil. Father John explains that the app is a curse, and that those who break its user agreement will be cursed. He also explains that the app is the work of the demon Ozhin, who is a servant of the Devil. Unlike the antagonists...

    The film's main premise is that there is an app for everything—people can track their weight, their schedule, their love life. These apps supposedly exist to make users' lives better, but they also manipulate users for profit, similarly to how Ig's powers work in Horns. They trick them into buying upgrades and paying more and more for their service...

    Naturally, Countdown's ending raises questions about whether there will be a sequel, as the automatically re-downloaded app seems to imply that Ozhin isn't finished hunting people down through sinister technology. There have been no announcements about a Countdown sequel at this time, however. This could ultimately be for the best, though, as poorl...

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  3. Jan 31, 2022 · January 31, 2022. Directed by Justin Dec in his feature debut and based on the director’s own homonymous short film, the 2019 horror thriller movie ’Countdown’ goes off the rails too soon. You know how they say that there is an app for that. Well, there is an app that can prophesize your death.

  4. As must-have apps go, “Countdown” is completely inessential and adds absolutely nothing of value to the cautionary tale genre of technology horror. As the film not-so-eloquently points out, we’re all going to die at some point, and even if its 87 years from now, you still shouldn’t waste one-minute watching “Countdown.” [D]

  5. Parents need to know that Countdown is a horror movie about an app that predicts the exact moment of a user's death. Violence is the biggest issue. Characters die in startling ways, and there's blood, fighting, beating with blunt objects, a man punching a woman, and monsters. A man is sexually aggressive….

    • Justin Dec
    • Jeffrey M. Anderson
    • STX Entertainment
  6. Oct 24, 2019 · The killer app horror film Countdown takes a shallow look at technological fears. / But it’s actually funny, which counts for a lot. By Charles Bramesco. Oct 24, 2019, 10:53 AM PDT. Photo:...

  7. Oct 22, 2019 · Meshing the unstoppable force of modern phone popularity with the immovable object of our own mortality, the new horror film Countdown, out Oct. 25, features a downloadable app that predicts...

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