Logline

For seventeen days, a Love Island-style dating show has filmed hot singles using their hot bodies to flirt for love and a cash prize. The network swore the island was empty; the cannibal tribe that owns it never got the memo — and when they attack mid-ceremony, the survivors must last six days in the jungle until the supply boat returns.

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This Is the End meets Tropic Thunder, with the survival tension of Ready or Not and the comedic escalation of 21 Jump Street.

Fast.Funny.Violent.Theatrical.

This Is the End movie poster
Ensemble chaosThis Is the End
Tropic Thunder movie poster
Production satireTropic Thunder
Ready or Not movie poster
Survival tensionReady or Not
21 Jump Street movie poster
Comic escalation21 Jump Street

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The movie

The story

One perfect season.
Four increasingly bad episodes.Click a chapter for the full breakdown.

Dating showbecomessurvival movie
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Cupid Cove survival unit

The Countdown

Next marine pickupDawn / Day 6
Call sheet 018–023Location Unknown ravineComms No signalPriority Stay alive
Daily survival logT–144 hours
Day 1Run
Day 2Hide
Day 3Search
Day 4Plan
Day 5Infiltrate
Day 6Escape
Objective
Get the wounded away from the villa
Keep the wounded hidden in the ravine
Follow the trail of cast and crew dragged away
Build a rescue plan around the captives
Enter the camp and free the surviving captives
Get the remaining survivors through the surf
Obstacle
Warriors chase them into unfamiliar jungle
Their food is back at Cupid Cove — and warriors occupy the set
Patrols sweep the jungle between them and the captives
The camp is guarded, and the boat is still three days away
The rescue is discovered before everyone is clear
The Tribe closes in before the boat can reach shore
Cost
They have no food, and several survivors are hurt
A small team risks returning while the others wait
The search team nearly exposes the ravine shelter
Everyone must risk the shelter they fought to find
The group is forced to flee wounded and exposed
Rick stays behind and sacrifices himself
Story turn
They find a concealed ravine and make shelter
At the villa, they find drag marks leading into the jungle
They locate the Tribe’s camp and confirm survivors are alive
They divide roles and choose an infiltration route
The breakout becomes a race for the returning boat
A few escape; Eli and Hailey finally kiss
Supply boat
6 days out5 days out4 days out3 days out2 days outArrives at dawn
The show had a schedule.Survival has a deadline. Six sunrises left.
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The cultural hook

Why now

Audiences are in the middle of a full-blown reality-show craze. Horror fans still want the rush of a movie that is scary, surprising, and worth seeing with a crowd. And after years of bleak prestige stories, the pendulum is swinging back toward big comedies that let people laugh together again. DEATH ISLAND delivers all three at once: the addictive fantasy of a Love Island-style dating show, the escalating danger of a survival horror movie, and the chemistry of a broad ensemble comedy. The 180 is the hook: people cast to perform romance must stop performing and become a real team if they want to survive.

Reality craze×Horror heat×Comedy comeback
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A glossy tropical reality-show villa and heart-shaped pool divided from a fortified jungle settlement built around a crashed airplane

Two systems. The same appetite.

The world

The show

Cupid Cove

Seventeen days into its season. Twelve arrived; nine remain — the show has been eating them the polite way, one elimination at a time. Its grammar (chyrons, confessionals, a plummy British narrator, "And we're CLEAR!") is the movie's grammar — until the attack kills the show and its grammar survives only in the survivors' heads.

The tribe

The island fights back

Native to the island and merciless toward outsiders. When the reality crew arrives with glaring lights, flying cameras, and amplified voices, the tribe believes demons have crossed the reef. Their attacks are not random. They are a coordinated extermination meant to protect their people and ensure no invader survives.

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Meet the cast

The characters

Choose a character to open their file.
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“The same island.
But now it has been fucked by television.”