Choose or Die

Choose or Die is a British horror and science fiction film about a young woman named Kayla, who is broke and has dropped out of college. She decides to play an obscure survival computer game from the 1980s, hoping to claim an unclaimed cash prize of $125,000. The game turns out to be cursed, forcing her into dangerous choices and challenges that warp reality around her. She soon understands that the stakes have shifted from money to her own survival, and she turns to Isaac, a gamer who owned the game, for help in beating it.

The film was directed by Toby Meakins, who wrote the screenplay with Matthew James Wilkinson and Simon Allen, with Wilkinson also producing. It is a British production from Anton and Stigma Films, running 85 minutes. Iola Evans plays Kayla, with Asa Butterfield as Isaac, Angela Griffin as Thea, Ryan Gage as Lance and Eddie Marsan as Hal. Robert Englund provides a voice role. The credited cast numbers 39.

Choose or Die was released in April 2022. Audience response has been middling, with an IMDb rating of 4.8 from around 29,000 votes and a TMDB rating of 5.2 from 900 votes. A critics' rating of 4.9 from 44 reviews places professional and audience assessments close together, indicating a broadly similar, modest reception across both groups.