Bandersnatch is a new Black Mirror standalone movie that Netflix just revealed to the world a day before it comes to the streaming service.
It looks every bit as trippy as you'd expect from the Black Mirror series, with some horror elements, mind-altering drugs and a computer game based on a book called "Bandersnatch" by a mysterious author (the word itself taken from the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.)
Here's the trailer:
Official synopsis: "In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings."
This is a nice cross-section of all the things I like writing about, from dark fantasy novels to video games to mind-altering drugs. Well, okay, I don't tend to write about mind-altering drugs but that's neither here nor there. Black Mirror is an interesting TV show, with standalone episodes telling self-contained stories. A full-length feature film makes sense since it'll basically just be a longer Black Mirror episode.
Those tend to be hit-or-miss, so let's hope this is more of the former and not the latter. I think it looks great, but trailers can be deceiving. We'll know tomorrow when the movie goes live.
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