Further Instructions — Await

The family is told all food in the house is contaminated.

The "festivities" take a dark turn on Christmas morning when the family wakes up to find their house sealed by a mysterious black substance. With no internet or cell service, their only connection to the outside world is a television screen displaying a single, ominous message: . Escalating Commands and Paranoia Await Further Instructions

The 2018 British horror film Await Further Instructions turns a standard, awkward family Christmas into a claustrophobic nightmare of blind obedience and paranoia. Directed by Johnny Kevorkian, the film explores how quickly social order collapses when people are isolated and fed increasingly disturbing commands from a screen. The family is told all food in the house is contaminated

Ominous medical kits, including dirty needles, are delivered through the chimney with orders for self-injection. Themes: Authority and the Screen Await Further Instructions (2018) - Mainlining Christmas Escalating Commands and Paranoia The 2018 British horror

A message warns that one member is infected, leading the family to turn on Annji—the "outsider"—in a Lord of the Flies -style breakdown.

They are ordered to scrub their bodies with bleach.