Flashback

Flashback (2021) is a psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Christopher MacBride. Dylan O'Brien plays Frederick Fitzell, a young man whose life looks perfectly fine from the outside — until visions of a missing girl start tearing through his days without warning.

Her name is Cindy, and she vanished back in high school. Fred starts tracking down the people he used to run with — played by Emory Cohen and Kier Gilchrist — because all of them shared the same experimental drug called Mercury. What exactly did they see? What happened to Cindy? The deeper Fred digs into his own memory, the less reliable that memory becomes. Hannah Gross and Maika Monroe anchor two timelines that bleed into each other as the film pulls the rug from under its own chronology.

MacBride built his reputation with The Conspiracy, another film that plays with the line between paranoia and reality. Here he uses fractured editing and shifting visual textures to make the audience feel what Fred feels: that the past is not behind you, it is underneath everything. Watch Flashback (2021) online on iFILM.