Terry's Calendar
2026 · 10m · USA
Directed by Chris Connor
Genres: dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A neurotic guy buys a 'Life Visualization' calendar off TikTok and spirals when each replacement arrives shorter than the last, convinced the thing knows when he'll die. Self-improvement curdles into a feverish mortality panic.
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Self-help slop weaponized into a death-clock — that's the only kind of wellness content I'm interested in. The conventional version of this story is a quirky comedy; this one apparently sweats through its shirt, and that's worth my time.
TikTok-bought self-help merch as memento mori, with the calendar shrinking like a horror prop dressed in wellness branding — that's a Safdie-Kaufman crossover concept and Connor's jumpy-comedy register is the right vehicle.
TikTok-bought "Life Visualization" calendar shrinking page-by-page like a horror prop dressed in wellness branding is a specific 2026 dread image — consumerist mortality panic with a Nathan-Fielder spine. Strong concept rendering.
Reviews
nails the feeling of uncontrollable panic
unsettling synth score, tumbling momentum, and feverous performance