Double Blind

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Double Blind

Released Feb 9, 2024

1h 30m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, seven young test subjects, after being kept awake for days, must face the terrifying side effect of the drug: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated medical facility, they desperately try to find a way to reverse the side effects of the trial, as one by one they succumb to sleep and death. Panic quickly takes hold and they to turn on each other. It's left up to Claire, the group's unlikely leader, to keep them together, find a way to escape, and somehow manage to stay awake.

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Brian Lloyd

entertainment.ie

It's always gratifying to find a horror movie that has the best of influences, and even more gratifying that it's an Irish crew of filmmakers that are making it all.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 25, 2024

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

Hunt-Duffy and his creative team hit a home run with a feature that grabs your throat and won’t let go

Rated: 4/5

Jul 11, 2024

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

This is a well-crafted, tight 90 minutes that will keep viewers hooked and shows great potential from the up-and-coming filmmakers.

Mar 7, 2024

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Alan Zilberman

Washington City Paper

Ian Hunt-Duffy uses the limited setting to his advantage, escalating tension through the frayed sanity that can only come when someone stays awake much longer than they should.

Feb 29, 2024

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

This is a fun watch, but it's just that for me.

Rated: 6/10

Feb 16, 2024

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Chris Wasser

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

This moody, claustrophobic chiller stretches its one good idea beyond breaking point -- but there is enough here to unnerve and, indeed, frighten even the most cynical participant.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 14, 2024

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David L

Very strong acting, writing, and directing. I’ve seen this classified as horror but it isn’t, so don’t go into it expecting a horror movie. It does have a lot of tension which director Ian Hunt Duffy expertly builds to a good (not great) ending. My issue with the ending is just me being hypercritical. A really good (thriller?) movie you will have fun watching.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/31/25

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Laura F

Loved this, kept me gripped

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/08/25

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Ree B

It was ok, bit slow to start with. Got better at the end.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/26/25

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Braden F

Great watch for the first time, although the progression of the story happened way too fast, without revealing more hidden details, also leaving the story on a Cliffhanger, with no plan for a second movie, is kind of a tragedy, this would be a great movie to renew into a Show, that takes on a slower pacing, maybe adding more characters, a bigger facility, more trials that patients are forced to endure, after the few survivors make it through this trial, or have this be the ending Trial in the second season, and then a redemption ark, overall Double Blinds, was a 4/5 movie, still was missing many details.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/22/25

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g j

Genuinely harrowing and anxiety-inducing. A surprisingly original and effective film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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Tom L

Another excellent Irish horror film. A group of volunteers is sequestered to test out a new drug by a shady drug company. Gradually things go south, and the group realizes they got more than they bargained for as the facility goes into lockdown leaving them alone. Then, the test subjects begin to die. The tension is ratcheted up, not only by the group’s attempts to stay alive and find a way out, but also by increasing paranoia, infighting, and a suspicion that one of the group is not who he claims. Solid script, direction, acting, sets, and music/sound design that all contribute to the atmosphere of dread and suspense. The ending is satisfying, if a little cliche.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/19/25

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When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, seven young test subjects, after being kept awake for days, must face the terrifying side effect of the drug: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated medical facility, they desperately try to find a way to reverse the side effects of the trial, as one by one they succumb to sleep and death. Panic quickly takes hold and they to turn on each other. It's left up to Claire, the group's unlikely leader, to keep them together, find a way to escape, and somehow manage to stay awake.

Director: Ian Hunt-Duffy
Producer: Simon James Doyle
Screenwriter: Darach McGarrigle
Distributor: Epic Pictures
Production Co: FailSafe Films, Epic Pictures Group
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 13, 2024
Runtime: 1h 30m

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