If you’ve ever felt fear of being put under anesthesia, you’re not alone. Whether it’s the thought of not waking up or regaining consciousness mid-surgery, there are quite a few nightmare scenarios to entertain. One new film that comes out today plays on yet another frightening notion: Losing your ability to move while remaining conscious.
Don’t Move, a new thriller from Netflix, follows a grieving mother named Iris who, after trusting the wrong stranger, gets injected with an unnamed paralytic agent that will render her fully immobile in 20 minutes, leaving her at this man’s mercy. The film follows her frantic attempt to outrun her captor as the drug debilitates her little by little. At one point, a kind man living in the woods finds her body, and Iris communicates with him through a series of blinks. The result is an anxiety-inducing, bloody chase with a bizarrely life-affirming message.
