Await Further Instructions is a 2018 British science-fiction horror film written by Gavin Williams and directed by Johnny Kevorkian.

The film follows the members of a dysfunctional family who are trapped in their house on Christmas by a mysterious black membrane that begins to send them cryptic instructions through text that appears on their television.

Nick travels to the home of his parents, Tony and Beth, to spend Christmas there and introduce the family to his girlfriend Annji even though he has a strained relationship with them at best.

They receive messages warning them that their food is contaminated and instructing them to cleanse themselves with bleach, as well as take vaccines which are dropped down their chimney.

Tony brings in another television, which names the baby "Ruby" and displays colourful patterns to get her attention before changing to text that says "worship me".

[1] The script was written by Gavin Williams, with director Johnny Kevorkian stating that he chose to direct the film as "it was so different to the usual stuff that comes across [his] desk".

Williams began writing the script after listening to the song "Apartment Story" by The National, taking inspiration from the lyric: "Stay indoors until somebody finds you / Do whatever the TV tells you.

Abrams also disliked the "one-dimensional" characters, "uniformly flat" acting, "dull" cinematography, and the way the film's "half-baked" social critique about the power of television "doesn't have anything intelligible to say".

Matt Donato reviewed it for Dread Central, stating that it "launches into survivalist psychotics that embrace walled-in escalation, always building towards that finale [...] the ride is filled with highs and lows, but damn if Johnny Kevorkian doesn't stick that landing".