This Netflix Horror Movie Is Basically What Would Happen If Jigsaw Had a Video Game — and Critics Got It All Wrong

Movie Features By Katherine Ann Published 3 days ago Follow Followed Thread Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your Collider account Video game adaptations are notorious for their poor quality, with only the ones in the past six years or so, like the Sonic the Hedgehog series, achieving any real critical success. Even fans of the original video games themselves often cringe at the attempts to bring a beloved franchise to life on the big screen – which may explain the handful of movies, like Gamer, that instead try to capture the feeling of playing video games in general rather than adapting a specific title. Video games are also perfect for the “techno horror” subgenre, resulting in virtual reality thrillers like eXistenZ and the supernatural horror Stay Alive (which is mostly remembered for the memetic trailer line "if you die in the game, you die in real life" rather than for its quality). These films are usually more hit than miss, but Netflix’s Choose or Die from 2022 is a lot mor...