Hello Stranger Interactive Film
Running time: 105 mins
Genre: Horror-Thriller
Release Date: 10/04/2025
Genesis Cinema is the exclusive venue for the interactive film 'Hello Stranger', as an official side event of London Games Festival 2025. The UK premiere screening will be at 7pm on Thursday 10th April with some cast members attending.
This screening will also launch the Interactive Film Club at Genesis Cinema
This innovation in the cinema experience has thrilled audiences at film festivals in France and the UK. It showcases the convergence of film and video games with the audience participating in how the story unfolds.
Synopsis: Cam conducts his entire life from his electronically automated smart-home. Work, shopping, entertainment and most notably: socialising. Cam interacts with strangers on the platform Hello Stranger: a randomised video chatting application.
Eventually, he encounters a masked stranger with an altered voice. Unnerved, Cam leaves the call only to find the stranger has hacked his smart-home and locked him in. The Stranger tells Cam that he must win three rounds of games or it is ‘game over’. Viewers must make decisions and play the 3 games for Cam to survive but one wrong choice could lead to a grisly end.
Check out the trailer here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sPyKUsuwfU&t=1s
How it works: For Interactive Cinema screenings, audiences will make decisions by voting as a group using glowsticks.
Cast: Geroge Blagden, Danny Griffin, Christina Wolfe, Laura Whitmore, Kulvinder Ghir, Yasmin Finney, Derek Jacobi.
Writer-Director: Paul Raschid (‘The Gallery’, ‘The Complex’, ‘White Chamber’)
Full film/game (incl. 10 endings) releasing in May 2025. Wishlist now on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2876360/Hello_Stranger/).
