Time Lapse

Time Lapse (2014) — watch online this sci-fi thriller on iFILM. Director Bradley King built a tight, low-budget puzzle around one question: what happens when three people can see exactly what they'll be doing tomorrow?

Finn is a struggling painter working as an apartment manager, going nowhere fast. His girlfriend Callie writes — or tries to. Their friend Jasper bets on dog races and keeps losing. When their reclusive scientist neighbor stops answering his door, they break in and find a bulky camera aimed straight at their living room window. The photograph it has already taken shows their apartment — 24 hours from now. The three start using it: Jasper picks winners, Finn paints whatever the machine has already captured. Then one of the photos shows something none of them want to make happen. And yet they're in it.

Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, and George Finn carry almost every scene. John Rhys-Davies appears as a third party with his own interest in the machine. The film works as a thriller precisely because it treats the premise seriously — the future doesn't set you free, it locks you in. Stream Time Lapse (2014) online on iFILM.