The Number 23

The Number 23 (2007) is Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Walter Sparrow rounds up stray dogs and lives a quiet life. Then his wife hands him an old book for his birthday.

The novel is called The Number 23, and the deeper Walter reads, the more convinced he becomes that it was written about him. The narrator's life mirrors his own down to chilling details. Behind it all sits a single figure: 23. It hides in birth dates, addresses and license plates, and adds up out of any numbers once you start counting. Walter stops sleeping, suspects the people closest to him, and slides into an obsession that threatens to drag his wife Agatha and their son down with him. Jim Carrey drops the comedy here for something frayed and dangerous.

Schumacher builds the film like a maze with a false floor, where a harmless coincidence turns out to mask an old crime. Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman and Danny Huston round out the cast. It's a movie for anyone who loves a twist that flips the whole story over. Stream The Number 23 (2007) online on iFILM.