The Village

The Village (2004) is M. Night Shyamalan's mystery thriller you can watch online on iFILM. The isolated settlement of Covington Woods in 19th-century Pennsylvania lives by one rule: no one steps past the tree line. Out there roam Those We Don't Speak Of.

Peace holds as long as the villagers keep the truce and avoid the color the creatures hate. Blind Ivy Walker loves Lucius Hunt, and that love pushes him to do the unthinkable, cross into the forbidden woods for help. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody and William Hurt play people who chose seclusion to escape the violence of the outside world. The toll turns out steeper than anyone expected.

Shyamalan builds the dread from secrecy and fear rather than monsters, then drops a turn that recasts the whole story. Sigourney Weaver and Brendan Gleeson round out the cast. Stream The Village (2004) online on iFILM.