The 'boss level' stage is reached, and the perpetrator is revealed – I think. Towards the final stretch of the 85-minute flick that feels like a 150-minute smorgasbord of arty horror tropes, there is some sort of revelation. Next night, Kayla must save her mother from being mauled by flesh-eating rats in her apartment - none of which we see, because the budget was presumably low. First, she is forced to 'choose' the fate of a nice waitress at a cafe, who ends up chewing on glass shreds till her mouth is mutilated.

She has nothing to lose, or so she thinks. With fellow coder geek Isaac, she decides to play this game of life in a rundown crime-infested area that looks like it's been hit by a zombie apocalypse. Soon, our young protagonist Kayla (Iola Evans) - an aspiring programmer, part-time janitor and daughter of a drug-addicted woman grieving her son's death - finds the doomed game. If one doesn't choose, a shrill modem-like electronic growl threatens to explode the player's head. Every night, a new level of arbitrary decision-making presents itself in 8-bit form. A man at the beginning, for instance, must choose between his wife's ear and his son's tongue. For some reason (or none at all), the game compels its players to choose between two no-win and gruesome options. Netflix counts on us scrolling through the platform with a chant ringing in our heads: choose or die, choose or die!Ĭhoose or Die is centered on a 1980s computer game (Curs>r), whose coding contains a supernatural curse. The library must grow fatter quality, if it happens, is a bonus.

So quantity - more, more, more - is a big deal. It is a company based entirely on streaming subscriptions and the 'content' they acquire and make. So their focus can be on quality and novelty rather than factory-level quantity. Apple and Amazon Prime can afford to be picky about the titles they acquire and produce, because their streaming service is not the primary revenue source in a massive company. With CODA winning big last month, the first question asked was this: How did Apple, and not Netflix, become the first streamer to nab the Best Picture Oscar? It's not as simple as 'Netflix sucks'. Language: English | Runtime: 1 hour 24 mins | Rating: 2/5Ĭhoose or Die is currently streaming on Netflix. Cast: Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Robert Englund

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