If you’re a narcissist, then you’ll likely not only enjoy watching the show Choose or Die, you’d like to actually play it. I mean, if you’re a retro gamer, the calling is there. Who doesn’t love a good 2022 horror game with choices that matter?
*slowly raises hand*
Is Choose or Die worthy of me?
Pros
- Caters to horror-devoted gamers
- Game devs can have inspiration for future games
Cons
- Kind of an odd ending…with the boss battle
- Storyline isn’t that great
I like these types of movies/shows that throw people into choice-based decisions, but those decisions end up causing either some kind of harm or death to someone. Maybe it’s the sociopath in me. Maybe I just like watching people suffer.
Despite cringing at horror scenes…
I was kind of disappointed when I realized this was a movie rather than a series. After watching Alice in Borderland and Squid Games, I guess I was hoping I’d have a grand time with one-after-another episodes of horrible choices being made.
It wasn’t the case though. Choose or Die is more along the lines of Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark.
Not with the whole video game ordeal, but with multiple things happening one after another fitting into an hour and a half long movie.
The movie kind of starts with a scene that tells you something bad is going to happen.
A mother and son are having an argument and the mom happens to be holding a fairly large kitchen knife that she’s waving about enthusiastically as their argument progresses. You can’t watch that tidbit and think everything’s going to smooth over like icing on cake.
The father keeps to a room away from the fight and happens to have a game called Curs>r open on his computer. It prompts him with a little D&D style of message, stating where he is and what he wants to do. But instead of rolling a D20 dice, he simply has to type in one of the two answers it gives.
They’re actually simplistic questions at first–throughout the movie–but then delve into the horrifying aspect of it all.
Everyone who plays the game will eventually have to choose an option to go with or die.
Hence the name.
Of course, some choices aren’t what they seem.
While in a diner, there’s the options in the game to take a break or not. Obviously, after bearing witness to the warped reality the game has to offer, one of the main characters–Kayla–chooses the break option. And then the waitress begins breaking glasses.
So yeah, not quite the “take a break” she had in mind.
I personally enjoyed the movie. The game threw a few curveballs, beginning at the start of the game, so you knew it had somewhat of a sense of humor.
If a demented one.
FAQ
Is this movie scary?
It’s not scary in the sense that there are jump-scares in the movie. It’s more scary in the sense of all the things that are happening to people as choices are made in the game.
Where can I watch the trailer?
You can check out the trailer for Choose or Die here.
Who’s the cast of Choose or Die?
- Beck is played as Joe Bolland (also seen in Martyr’s Lane as Freddie)
- Carmella is played as Silvana Montoya
- Gabe is played as Pete MacHale (also seen in The Feed as Leon)
- Grace is played as Ioanna Kimbook
- Hal is played as Eddie Marsan (also voices Antonia Ritter in Forza Horizon 5)
- Isaac is played as Asa Butterfield (also seen in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children as Jake, Ender’s Game as Ender Wiggin, and Hugo as Hugo Cabret)
- Kayla is played as Iola Evans (also seen in The 100 as Callie and Carnival Row as Ryma)
- Lance is played as Ryan Gage (also seen in The Hobbit as Alfrid Lickspittle and voices Micolash – Host of the Nightmare in Bloodborne)
- Laura is played as Kate Fleetwood (also seen in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 as Mary Cattermole)
- Maria is played as Caroline Loncq (also voices Grandma/Villager 1 in A Plague Tale: Innocence)
- Officer Carpenter is played as Delroy Atkinson (also seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Pike)
- Ricky is played as Kayleen Aires Fonseca
- Robert Englund is played as Robert Englund (also seen in Stranger Things as Victor Creel and A Nightmare on Elm Street as Freddy Kreuger)
- Thea is played as Angela Griffin
How did we find this product?
I happened to watch it on Netflix.
