The pandemic saw countless great, overlooked, and/or underrated movies fail to find the size of audience they deserved, but even if the marketplace was in its rudest health, there still would have been a very high chance Death of Me would have come and went without anyone even noticing.
The VOD horror circuit is saturated with bargain basement titles that arrive on an almost weekly basis, but the prospect of a supernatural murder mystery packing an intriguing twist that had Saw veteran Darren Lynn Bousman directing Maggie Q and Chris Hemsworth still carried enough potential in its premise to hint that it possessed sleeper hit potential.
In the end, though, a disastrous Rotten Tomatoes score of only 31 percent immediately signposted that Death of Me wasn’t worth the time, and that’s hammered home even further by the even more damning indictment of a 22 percent audience approval rating, because it’s well known that the target audience tends to be a lot more forgiving than critics when it comes to B-tier terror.
And yet, more than three years after being proclaimed dead on arrival, Death of Me has wound up as one of the most-watched titles on Prime Video’s global charts per FlixPatrol, where it’s even entered the Top 10 in the United Kingdom. The two leads play a couple on vacation who wake up with a near-death hangover, only to discover a video that shows one of them murdering the other.
Suffice to say, they need to find out how this has happened, who’s responsible, and what it all means before the fateful scenario plays out, not that anyone seemed all that thrilled with the end result.
Published: Apr 27, 2023 01:50 am