Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch turns fans into ‘serial killers’ and stops them sleeping with ‘stressful’ choose your own adventure format
Fans are struggling to deal with their new-found power of deciding where the story goes
BLACK Mirror fans have been turned into 'serial killers' and they've not been able to sleep thanks to new instalment Bandersnatch.
Viewers say they have been left stressed out and left wide awake by the Netflix show's ground breaking choose your own adventure format.
The interactivity means you can choose the direction of the story, and some people aren't quite sure how to deal with their new-found control.
One wrote on Twitter: "When i told liv to choose 'chop up the body' and explained why she knew in that moment that i’m a serial killer #Bandersnatch".
Another said: "I had to kill my dad a solid 10 times and Colin ... twice... before I finally got the “true” #Bandersnatch ending. This could be a serial killer litmus test #blackmirror".
A third wrote: "Me at 2am trying to keep going back for the bunny but the passwords keep changing #Bandersnatch".
A fourth said: "This new black mirror movie really got me choosing between cereal brands at 3am LMAO #bandersnatch".
The official synopsis for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch reads: “In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a sprawling fantasy novel into a video game and soon faces a mind-mangling challenge. Welcome back."
Bandersnatch, which at an hour and 30 minutes IS the longest Black Mirror ever produced, launched on Netflix on December 28 - giving anyone lucky enough to be off work plenty of time to watch it.
But as the show has a choose-your-own-adventure format, and it's claimed five hours of footage was filmed all together, fans can be watching it for hours, depending on which choices they make - and how many times they go back and re-do the storyline.
This summer, parts of Croydon were transformed into 1980s-style shopfronts for the movie, including a WHSmith shop full of music and books from the time.
Locals could have been forgiven for thinking they'd slipped into a time-warp as brands including a retro-looking Pizza Hut and Wimpy begun appearing in the South London suburb.
Older residents were also delighted to see a Soleil travel agent and a branch of defunct fashion chain Chelsea Girl, which was eventually merged to become River Island.
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