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9 January 2019, 11:11
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has a terrifying family photo easter egg...
Black Mirror made its long-awaited return to our screens at the end of last month. Netflix released a one off interactive Black Mirror film called Bandersnatch on December 28th and fans adored it. Bandersnatch stars Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) and Will Poulter (The Maze Runner) in the slightly disturbing choose your own adventure programme. Technology is scary.
Bandersnatch tells the tale of Stefan Butler (Fionn) as he adapts a choose your own adventure novel into a video game and, like the game, you get to choose how Stefan's story unfolds. However, it gets dark really quick and involves everything from murder to missing people. Unsurprisingly viewers became obsessed and tried to find out all the possible endings but there was one that everyone missed.
Netflix took to Twitter yesterday to tease that even diehard fans of the film had probably missed something huge in the Black Mirror movie. They wrote: "think you've seen everything there is to see in bandersnatch?" and then added a major hint as to how you could see more. "try picking up the family photo, ~twice~". Fans were immediately shook. How could we miss an easter egg like that?
And the surprise Black Mirror easter egg does not disappoint. If you pick up the family photo twice, just like Netflix suggests, something drastic does happen. Stefan gets stabbed by surprise in his bedroom by none other than Jerome F. Davies (JFD - the murderous man who wrote the initial Bandersnatch novel that Stefan's book is based on. Shocking right?
— Bod (@BodDamnIt) January 8, 2019
I had the sound on loudly and I jumped A MILLLEEE
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) January 8, 2019
Scared me SO much I didn’t see it coming at all ahahaha
— ginny (@ginnydarke) January 8, 2019
omg thanks for that. now I'm terrified.
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) January 8, 2019
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME https://t.co/1QqGQk4biW
— 乇乂ㄒ尺卂 ㄒ卄丨匚匚 (@HuwPxrdoe) January 8, 2019
I'm never going to finish watching this am I? #bandersnatch #Netflixcontrolsme https://t.co/gkfgoqsqNZ
— Lisa Franklin (@LisaFrankers) January 8, 2019
We really are never going to finish watching this.