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THE CALL UP

By Charles BARKER

Science-fiction - Completed 2015

A group of online gamers are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game. But things take a turn for the sinister when these master of the shoot 'em up discover they will literally be fighting for their lives.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Science-fiction, Thriller
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Charles BARKER
- Writer(s)
- Charles BARKER
- Cast
- Max DEACON, Morfydd CLARK, Ali COOK, Parker SAWYERS
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-8084-0000-9-0000-0000-A
- Producer(s)
- Matthew James WILKINSON, John GIWA-AMU
- Synopsis
- 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 realise 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.