Jitters
Jitters
‘Jitters’ – from Miracle Media
Fast paced, crazily plotted and constantly unnerving, George Willcox and Mark Zammit’s ‘Jitters’ takes the traditional story of the computer game that may actually be real and injects it with a dangerous cocktail of personal knowledge and manipulation of its victim-players.
Fabrizio Santino plays Collymore, a troubled detective with a broken relationship behind him who is called upon to investigate what appears to be a routine case, the murder of a young woman. The deeper he looks into the case, the more dreadful it becomes, taking him from one seedy flat and one poor, mistreated woman to another. The grimy London setting does little to keep us grounded in reality as our detective tries to make sense of the case and his own shattered life.
A welcome break at the local computer game arcade with his young daughter proves his first encounter with the darker side of the internet as he stumbles across a zip drive leading him into the game world of Jitters (Daniel Jordan), a malevolent clown who intuitively takes all of a player’s secret fears and insecurities and taunts him with them, using whispering menace and crazed threats. Showing knowledge of unpublished details of the murder investigation and of Detective Collymore’s own life, the grotesque clown is always one step ahead, laying traps at every turn in his deadly, apparently unsolvable game.
‘Jitters’ may be treading familiar ground, but it evokes the contrasting settings of Collymore’s tough, everyday reality and Jitters’ horrifying nether world well, leaving the viewer with repeated shudders and a distinct feeling that other, more barbarous dimensions may exist, perhaps within our grasp.
Scenester
21st February 2026
Jitters trailer: https://youtu.be/wByrNek3PXQ
Credit: Jitters is on UK digital 16 March and US on 17 March from Miracle Media
