Die

Horror / Thriller

Pinnacle Films

R4 DVD

Six people wake up in a strange room that looks like a basement. A strange man takes them out two at a time and they are offered a choice. It is revealed that each of the six has tried to commit suicide.

“…so she did the unthinkable. She went against her faith and she jumped off a bridge. God would not let her die. Not yet.”

One of each pair is strapped to a chair. The other must then throw a die (singular of “dice”) to decide the fate of the captive. Their death will echo the method by which the die thrower tried to kill themselves. Throwing a “1” will release the captive. The stranger explains that since they have decided to end their lives and usurp God’s right, they must experience their suicidal death at the hands of another. The one who sends them to their death will now use their original method of suicide as a model for killing the other. If they die then it is God’s will and they can start a new life. The stranger calls this “the Trials”. “It’s all part of God’s plan.”

“The only way to be reborn is to be given a new life. You have to face the death you have chosen …..who is truly lost? Who deserves a second life?”

Each of the abductees is forced to confront their lives and assess what they have become. In the real world a detective is trying to find the missing people. It is a race between more deaths and the arrest of the religious nut.

The pace is fast moving and each of the possible deaths builds up a tremendous tension. In this respect the film contains elements of Saw but in a restrained and less gory way. Rather than the theme of punishment prevalent in Saw it deals instead with the individual being persuaded to leave their lives in God’s hands. Why God would employ a raving homicidal loonie as his disciple is not explained.

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