Panic Room

Panic Room (2002) is a David Fincher thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Columbia Pictures released this 107-minute siege film written by David Koepp, with Jodie Foster and a then-unknown Kristen Stewart sharing most of the screen.

Freshly divorced Meg Altman moves into a Manhattan brownstone with her daughter Sarah. The previous owner, a paranoid millionaire, had a reinforced safe room built into the house — steel walls, separate ventilation, a bank of security monitors. Three men break in that same first night: Burnham (Forest Whitaker), the cold-blooded Raoul (Dwight Yoakam), and the jumpy Junior (Jared Leto). What they need is locked inside the panic room. Meg and Sarah are also locked inside the panic room. Nobody is getting out easily.

Fincher's camera threads through walls, pipes and keyholes — a visual trick that lets the audience watch both sides of the standoff at once. Made for $48 million, the film grossed over $197 million worldwide. Stream Panic Room (2002) online on iFILM.