She Dies Tomorrow is what happens when fear, depression and anxiety goes viral. Elliptically narrated with little definitive answers and more introspection, actor Amy Seimetz's latest outing as a director is dotted with experimental flourishes and mines its thrills from an existential plague, using an unsettling idea — a disease where the afflicted believe they'll die by the next day morning — as a crutch to build a trippy house of mirrors that reflects and passes on the inhabitants' worst fears to others in a chain reaction that puts mortality front and centre. Eerie and hallucinatory in equal measure, Seimetz's narrative choice to withhold any kind of exposition makes for a tragicomic and unnerving experience, even as the erratic jumps back and forth in time and space add to a feeling of helplessness, disarray and doom. If ideological contagion could be devastating, this is it.
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