“Summer camp with drugs!”

Story: A bunch of young adults decide to make 2k of easy money by being prescription drug test subjects. But the drug has strange side effects, the company is rushing to put it out, and someone doesn’t want this drug to succeed. Sound good? SUCKER.

Scares: A few at the start, until the plot gets so convoluted nothing makes sense.
Splat Factor: Some blood on walls, people dying

Subgenre: Drug Trial Nightmares
Year Released: 2016
Remake, Sequel or OG (Original Ghoul)?: Original, but stupid.

Trick or Treat?: This movie had me at William Mapother. That dude is a character actor I’ll watch in the any genre film. But his emotionless researcher Dr. Jerrems in Die can’t save this artless clunker.

This is an absolute mess of plot scraps lazily cobbled together. The idea of test subjects getting visions of how they’ll die sounds cool. But Die gets lost up it’s own…ideas. The plot makes no sense, and the added killer with a score to settle brings nothing to the story, instead turning this film into yet another slasher wannabe.

The whole “test subjects see how they die” idea is absolutely yeeted out the window, in lieu of a story that steals bits from The Shining and Final Destination, but doesn’t know how to make the result coherent.

Plus? The guy who wants to end the research is a complete idiot. Killing the test subjects, security guards, and mid-level researchers? Like the research notes aren’t saved in various clouds. Dude just wants to kill. And that’s the same old stuff we’ve seen in countless other horror movies.

Die should probably get kudos for being able to take an interesting premise and suck every fun possibility out of it. But I’m not giving this movie a damn thing.

Fun fact – I watched this on Tubi, and there were prescription drug ads in between the film. That juxtaposition was the creepiest thing I experienced during this movie’s run time.

Score: 0.5 out of 5 pumpkins. Half a pumpkin for Hallorann Pharmaceuticals. I love a Stephen King reference.