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Choose or Die interview: Simon Allen and Toby Meakins

Toby Meakins and Simon Allen's latest movie as director and writer is Choose or Die, Netflix's chart-topping horror movie.

Writer Simon Allen and director Toby Meakins discuss Netflix's Choose Or Die

Choose Or Die, formerly known as Curs>r, has been streaming on Netflix since 20th April and riding high on its global Top 10 list ever since. This indie horror hybrid combines retro gaming tech and psychological horror tropes into a cinematic cocktail of undeniable depth.

Writer Simon Allen and director Toby Meakins recently took time out to talk to We Got This Covered about the project. From the challenges of shooting in lockdown to indie filmmaking as a whole, both talk candidly about the obstacles and advantages which come with working in that arena.

Interview: Toby Meakins & Simon Allen talk Choose Or Die

In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with long time collaborators and friends Toby Meakins (director) and Simon Allen (screenwriter) about their debut feature film Choose Or Die.

Choose Or Die: F*ck the eighties!

We speak to director Toby Meakins and writer Simon Allen about their new horror movie Choose Or Die and why we should all f*ck the eighties...

Streaming: The Duke and other great heist movies

Roger Michell's delightful art-theft romp starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren joins robbery classics from The Lavender Hill Mob to Rififi and Widows.

Review: Choose Or Die on Netflix

Iola Evans plays a cash-strapped college kid named Kayla who gets immersed in a dangerous video game in Choose Or Die, a frequently disturbing horror film with echoes of Saw, Ready Player One and A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Simon Allen interview

Another skill I think you develop after you've done a few things is that when you get rushes back at the end of every shooting day, you see what people are accentuating, what's registering and what isn't.

Netflix swoops on rights to CURS>R

Netflix has swooped on world rights to horror film CURS>R out of the Cannes virtual market. We understand the streamer is paying high seven figures for the buzzy movie, which stars Asa Butterfield. Toby Meakins is making his directorial debut from Simon Allen's script.

The Watch review: Pratchett fans will hate adaptation

Discworld fans will want to avoid this fantasy series like the plague, but for everyone else this is diverting steampunk schlock.

Simon Allen writes 80s-inspired horror film 'Curs>r'

Simon Allen has written Curs>r. Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans and Eddie Marsan are leading the cast of the horror-thriller that has recently wrapped principal photography in the UK.

Further coverage: Variety, Deadline and Screen Daily.