Await Further Instructions Apr 2026

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 story follows Nick and his girlfriend Annji as they travel to Nick's childhood home for the holidays. Tension is high from the start due to Nick’s strained relationship with his father, Tony, and the overt racism Annji faces from Nick's sister and grandfather. The family is told all food in the house is contaminated

They are ordered to scrub their bodies with bleach. Escalating Commands and Paranoia The story follows Nick

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.

As the film progresses, the messages on the TV become increasingly authoritarian and bizarre: