India, April 29 -- Though no bigger than the palm of your hand, a smartphone quietly governs nearly every aspect of our lives. But when it begins to dictate your fate-pulling you into a vortex of the unknown with fatal consequences-you realise you are up against an adversary like no other.

If Wishes Could Kill, Netflix's latest teen horror K-drama, brings this chilling premise to life. However dystopian it may seem, the show taps into a very real unease: screens already dominate our day-to-day existence. So how dangerous could a seemingly harmless wish-granting app really be?

Five students are introduced to "Girigo" by their classmate Hyeon Wook (Lee Hyo Je), who credits the app for helping him ace a maths test. Its mechanism is decepti...