The Call Up

The Call Up (2016)

This time it's for real

When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.

Date of release
2016-05-20
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (159)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Director
Charles Barker

Casting

Interesting facts

The Call Up is a 2016 British science fiction thriller film written and directed by Charles Barker. It stars Max Deacon, Morfydd Clark, Ali Cook, Parker Sawyers, Tom Benedict Knight, Boris Ler, Douggie McMeekin, and Adriana Randall as top-ranked gamers who are invited to beta test a new first-person shooter virtual reality game. When they discover the equipment includes lethal feedback, they must win the game to survive.

Production

Writer-director Charles Barker was influenced by first-person shooter video games, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, but said the concept came from "the idea of being trapped in a helmet you couldn't get off". Barker wanted to explore what would happen when gamers were put into a real-life combat situation, which had been previously explored by the anime Sword Art Online. Shooting took place in Birmingham over the course of six weeks.

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