10 Horror Movies That Brutally Punish Your Curiosities

7. Play Or Die

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Released in 2019, Jacques Kluger's Play or Die punishes lead Chloe (Roxane Mesquida) for her interest in wanting to strike it rich.

To achieve said fortune, Chloe convinces her super-smart ex-boyfriend Lucas (Charley Palmer Rothwell) to join her in playing a game called Paranoia. For the couple who can somehow topple this game and emerge victorious, there's a cool €1 million prize on the table.

Eventually accepted to try their hand at this game, Chloe and Lucas find themselves in an abandoned hospital (always a good sign...). With a strange voice barking out orders, unbeknownst to our former lovers is the small fact that one of them must ultimately die in order for the prize to be triggered.

Before you know it, tests are passed, corpses are discovered, and Chloe and Lucas are trying to find out who is behind these dead bodies and behind the Paranoia game, period. It's here that Play or Die reveals its big twist, with Lucas in fact a psychopath with memory loss who has constructed this entire game.

This information comes a little to late for poor Chloe, mind, as her attempt to escape this hospital ends with Lucas murdering her.

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