FREQUENCIES offers a dystopian alternative world in which free will is unheard of.

Darren Paul Fisher's frightening film explores what it would be like if a person's ability to succeed was not determined by their personality, intellect and opportunities but by their preordained 'frequency'.

Those with a high frequency are blessed with intelligence and good fortune throughout their whole life while those with a low frequency have slow wit and 'bad luck'.

The story also sees 'frequency' used as a measure for how children are treated in school and a means for who can be friends – because people with high and low frequencies physically repel each other.

That is until low frequency Zak (Charlie Rixon) discovers a way to get close to high frequency Marie (Eleanor Wyld).

Claustrophobic and nightmarish, Frequencies feels like it could have been an episode on Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. Coincidentally Eleanor Wyld has previously on one of the show's episodes.

Perhaps it should have been because the main problem with the story is that it feels stretched.

Footage from earlier scenes in the films is recycled again and again.

This is to show an alternative point-of-view as the plot develops but you just get a dull sense of deja vu.

It is also difficult to warm to a lot of the characters and therefore relate to their desire to have free will.

To a certain extent, this is on purpose as Frequencies is meant to have a clinical feel and Eleanor Wyld's character lacks empathy due to her ultra high intelligence.

But you get the sense that director Darren Paul Fisher was swept away by the film's high concept and forgot to give it a heart.