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Future Shock

“I find the cruelest joke is that we die. You’re alive and you’re conscious and you’re aware—and then it ends. It’s just so absurd! So I found it really important to include a sense of humor [in the movie].”

THE END IS NEAR IN SHE DIES TOMORROW, A FILM ABOUT a woman consumed by the unshakable conviction of her imminent doom. Her morbid angst seizes others around her, one by one, like a contagion. Amy Seimetz’s new horror drama is just as much a poised mood piece, streaked with humor and set in bereft Los Angeles home interiors. Kate Lyn Sheil brings a brittle cool to Amy, the story’s initial focus, while stalwart Jane Adams plays her friend Jane, gripped by the same foreboding. (Kentucker Audley and Tunde Adebimpe co-star, with Josh Lucas as an overwhelmed doctor.) It’s a work of crystalline anxiety, a controlled movie about feeling out of

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