Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It takes almost half the film to figure out if Justin Dec’s directorial debut, “Countdown,” is seriously being serious. The film ...

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 ...

COUNTDOWN is turning viewers against their phones ahead of its release on Friday. The new horror film tracks the release of a terrifying new app that professes to tell users exactly when they’ll die.

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 ...