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FEEDBACK LOOP

FEEDBACK LOOP
By Bavly Hany

GENRE: Thriller / Suspense, Horror
LOGLINE:
When a successful horror podcast creator becomes trapped inside his own sealed apartment, he discovers his reality has turned into a recursive playback device; every time he falls asleep, the day rewinds, resetting his environment while his physical senses incrementally and permanently erode.


SYNOPSIS:

FEEDBACK LOOP is a relentless, claustrophobic psychological horror thriller centered on Adam (35), the exhausted creator of a hit horror podcast. Following the release of a controversial episode called "The Resonance"—which utilized a fictional binaural audio curse—mass hysteria erupts among his listeners. Under pressure from his manager, Rami, Adam pulls the file, only to receive a glitched, mysterious phone call warning him: "If you sleep, you go back to the beginning... and you die at the end."The threat becomes a terrifying reality when Adam wakes up the next day to find his apartment transformed into a sealed capsule with concrete blocking the exits. He discovers a dusty, vintage cassette tape labeled "Play Me" that explains the rules of his new existence: his apartment is now a playback device. Every night at exactly 3:33 AM, his body forcibly shuts down, and the tape rewinds to the start of the loop.

However, time is running out. With each sleep cycle, the loop inflicts a permanent, agonizing toll on his physical body. As the cycles progress, Adam sequentially loses his sense of taste, his sense of smell, and his ability to speak, forcing him into a silent hell. To break the recursive trap, Adam must decipher the riddles of his own writing and destroy the original master recording before the seventh and final cycle takes his sight—and his life.

Driven to the absolute brink of sanity, Adam's battle against his own creation culminates in a harrowing climax of sensory deprivation, leading to a dark, cynical twist that redefines the true horror of the storyteller’s curse.

Marcos Fizzotti

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