Don’t Move, currently one of the Top 10 movies on Netflix, has a crackerjack premise for a thriller: A woman on her own in a remote area meets a seemingly friendly man who turns out to be a psychotic killer, and injects her with a paralysis agent that will gradually (and temporarily) take away her physical faculties, giving him terrifying control of her body. Now she has mere minutes to do whatever she can to escape him before the drug takes effect – and/or stall for time until after the drug wears off.
As excitingly gimmicky as that sounds, it may also ring with familiarity, in any number of ways: Because women in genre movies are so often meeting friendly-seeming guys who turn out to be malicious right around the 12-minute mark; because the Crank movies also use a bodily form of a ticking clock sending their hero on a
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