Movie

Play Dead

2025 · 72 min

A claustrophobic, nerve-shredding ordeal that keeps you holding your breath in the dark.

Tagline: When your best chance to live is to die.
Overview: A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
How it feels: Tense, dark, bleak and eerie. Relentless and needs your attention.
About: Survival, death, violence, isolation
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
death
violence
isolation
fate
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild