Gerald's Game
Some games you play. Some you survive.
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A claustrophobic psychological horror that traps its protagonist with both external danger and the internal ghosts of childhood trauma, building dread through isolation and fractured reality.
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
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