The Snap
What would you do with the power of life and death?
Psychological thriller · Noir · Anthology · Adults · 60 pages per episode
A crow with a violet triangle on its chest. A viral meme that says looking it in the eye gives you the power to kill with a snap of your fingers. It’s obviously not true. Until it is. And then the real question begins.
Genre
Noir / Thriller
Format
Anthology series
Language
English
Status
IN development
The Snap,. Ele Studios, 2026. AI-illustrated
The premise
There is a crow. It has a violet triangle on its chest. A meme has been circulating for weeks claiming that if you look it in the eye, you gain the power to kill anyone you can see with a single snap of your fingers. The power lasts exactly seven days. Then the crow moves on.
People tried it as a joke. As a social media challenge. As the kind of thing you do to prove it’s not real.
It is real.
The real horror is not having the power. It’s losing it — and having to live with what you did while you had it.
The Snap is an anthology series. Each episode follows a different person who receives the power — a nurse, a bullied teenager, a detective, an old woman with a grudge list, a lawyer, a judge. Same power. Completely different choices. Completely different consequences. The crow connects them all, moving through cities and lives like a current that keeps finding new conductors.
The series asks one question and refuses to answer it cleanly: if you had the power of life and death, with no risk of being caught, what would you actually do?
The Mechanics
The Crow
The vector
A crow with a violet triangle on its chest. It transmits the power through direct eye contact. Nobody knows why it chooses who it chooses. It is present in historical cultures as a symbol of death and transformation. In The Snap it is neither good nor evil. It is a mechanism.
The Power
Seven days
One snap of the fingers, plus intent, equals death by cardiac arrest. The victim must be directly visible — no screens, no photographs, no video. No physical contact required. No forensic evidence. No way to prove it happened. After seven days it disappears, completely and without warning.
The Aftermath
The real horror
When the power ends, the consequences begin. Depression. Obsession with getting it back. Paranoia that someone else now has it — and a reason to use it. The psychological devastation of having controlled life and death and now being ordinary again. Most characters are more broken after seven days than before.
The Meme
The accelerant
A viral legend that spread as a joke. The power of collective belief as catalyst. The story doesn’t explain whether the meme created the phenomenon or the phenomenon created the meme. The ambiguity is deliberate. What matters is that people started looking for the crow — and finding it.
Visual Style
The Snap lives in the space between the ordinary and the impossible. Visually, it commits entirely to the ordinary — and uses one single colour to mark where the impossible has entered.