Nerve

Nerve (2016) is a crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco. High-school senior Vee is tired of watching life happen to everyone else, so she signs up for an online dare game where strangers set the challenges and pay out for nerve.

The first stunts feel harmless. A kiss, a quick dash, money landing in her account while the crowd cheers her on. Then she teams up with Ian, a mysterious player the viewers adore, and the audience demands they go all in together. Each round pays more and asks more. By the time Vee wants out, she learns there is no quitting — a hidden collective of Watchers runs the whole thing, and the players are just pawns.

Directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost shoot it in restless neon, chasing the leads across a sleepless New York where every like tightens the noose. Underneath the rush sits a sharp warning about life lived for an audience. Stream Nerve (2016) online on iFILM.