Carriers

Carriers (2009) — watch online on iFILM, a post-apocalyptic thriller directed by brothers Alex and David Pastor. A lethal virus has gutted civilization, and four survivors are driving through the empty American West with a plan: keep moving, follow the rules, reach a beach in the Gulf of Mexico where they spent summers as kids. Chris Pine and Piper Perabo lead the group; Lou Taylor Pucci and Emily VanCamp complete it.

The rules are specific. Don't touch the infected. Don't slow down. Don't get sentimental. The rules start collapsing when they meet a man stranded on the road with his sick daughter — Christopher Meloni and a very young Kiernan Shipka — and the film quietly shifts from survival thriller into something harder to categorize.

Carriers slipped through theaters in 2009 largely unnoticed, but it found its audience later. This is not a monster movie. The violence is mostly offscreen; the damage is between the four people in the car. Stream Carriers (2009) online on iFILM.