2/1/2024 0 Comments Panic button movie![]() This universal source of tension is perhaps somewhat undermined by the extreme secrets the characters have (and they do get pretty grim if what you’d expect from the themes). Panic Button is a cautionary tale about being careful what you click and plays on the fear of exposure. ![]() As such, the descent into madness won’t be a huge surprise. And there are severe consequences for not playing, including a bad arrival. You can bet they’re all wishing they hadn’t mindlessly clicked through the terms and conditions (although, to be fair, who reads those?) What makes it worse is there’s no way out – not many places to run on an airplane. The questions get more personal than expected and after refreshingly little down time their deepest secrets are shared. But as sure as what goes up must come down, in horror what starts as banter soon takes a dark turn. It should be dead easytoo, since it’s based on their net history. To pass the time, and to win some great New York goodies, the flying foursome partake in a Q & A game hosted by a cartoon alligator. Courtesy of them, four strangers have won an all expenses trip from Old Blighty to The Big Apple in a private jet so swag there’s a tele in the bog. ![]() Instead, All2gethr is seemingly the hippest social media site on the go, and definitely the most generous. And it’s also a bit like The Killing Room which came out first.Īnyway, in this not totally unique universe, Zuckerberg either didn’t exist or was a bit of an underachiever – either that or he got beaten to the negative emojis. No, its approach dating doesn’t make it worse – although it does mean there’s more for new viewers to compare it with. Which is unfortunate, as it means some of its impact has inevitably diminished in the wake of things like Black Mirror, Unfriended, Friend Request and Truth or Dare (all of which share plot and theme elements with it). Ahead of its time at first, and now arguably behind the curve, it seems it must have slipped through the net. Yet I’d never heard of it until I saw it going as part of a deal in HMV. Originally released in 2011, then recently remastered/ rereleased, Panic Button bills itself as the UK’s first social media shocker. The internet is all about sharing content, but then would you want your content shared? This, in a nutshell, is the premise for writer/ director Chris Crow’s second feature length movie. Starring: Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson, Scarlett Alice Johnson Regardless of your feelings on the franchise, at least SAW has enjoyably unnecessary gore, cooler characters, better writing, and is wrapped in decent enough moral reasoning that ties itself into the other iterations.Written by: Chris Crow, David Shillitoe, Frazer Lee, Jack Shackleton They should’ve just given the idea to the makers of SAW. It’s very cheap and the characters are annoying but deaths weren’t satisfying. How the antagonist created a billion-dollar social media site for this purpose is extremely specious (and lucky the “you’ve won a trip of a lifetime” email didn’t get caught in the spam filter!) but ok…It’d be easier to forgive if there was something positive to focus on. You’d imagine that this film would be heavy on the finger-wagging of big companies collecting personal information that it’s users freely distribute, but no, not really – it’s just used as a vehicle for and explanation of the events. The idea is fine enough (trap people on a plane, terrify and kill ’em) and the revelations make sense and are decent, but the execution and the overall production is flimsy. Little do they know, they’ve all been selected to play a deadly game. A group of 20-somethings win a holiday of a lifetime from (a thinly veiled parody of facebook), starting with a First Class flight to New York. The faceless perpetrator (seen as a televised animated crocodile) slowly lets them in on the real reason why they’re there, starting with listing out their shortcomings and despicable acts, all chronicled on Facebo. The writing and plot is nothing special and the budget is almost non-existent as almost the entire movie is set in one location (a plane’s cabin interior), and with that, there’s no gore or gratuitous deaths etc. “Panic Button” is something much worse!Ĭast/Crew: The cast is either forgettable or instantly irritating, which makes it a tough watch. Disclaimer: This is neither Panic Room, nor The Button.
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