The story of the Countdown app is interesting for several reasons, especially since movie distributor STX Films didn't create the app as part of the promotion for its upcoming horror movie by the same ...

In terms of horror movie premises, it feels like almost everything has been done, and that anything can be evil. There have been movies about killer cars, killer tomatoes, even killer clothes. Of ...

Even the lowly jump scare can be a source of pleasure. But at its most mechanical, this least imaginative of stock devices in current horror cinema elicits less fright than annoyance — rather like a ...

It’s abundantly clear to anyone who’s ever used Twitter that our apps want to kill us. The new horror movie Countdown just wants to ask how and why. Instantly and frequently summarized as “the killer ...

It takes almost half the film to figure out if Justin Dec’s directorial debut, “Countdown,” is seriously being serious. The film aspires to belong in the small but noteworthy horror subgenre about ...

An app that can predict the date and time of your death may have been too much for Apple to stomach: The iPhone maker removed a viral app inspired by the upcoming horror movie “Countdown” a few days ...

In "Countdown," an app tells users exactly when they're going to die. And you thought Facebook had its drawbacks. It's a cheapo horror movie premise so obvious it's a wonder it wasn't exploited sooner ...

“COUNTDOWN” a new free app that appeared in the iOS App store only a few weeks ago has already been downloaded over 6 million times. Mysteriously, after climbing to the #1 spot in the iTunes App Store ...

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This anxiety-inducing horror movie likely just escaped an R rating from the MPAA. Though there’s little gore, “Countdown” is genuinely gnarly at times ...