Circle

Circle (2015) is a sci-fi thriller and locked-room mystery you can watch online on iFILM. Fifty strangers wake in a dark chamber with no memory of arriving and nowhere to run.

Each person stands on a marked tile. Step off, and a device in the middle of the room kills you on the spot. Once every two minutes it fires again, and the group soon cracks the rule behind it: the victim is chosen by their own votes. So the strangers start bargaining over who dies next, weighing a child against an old man, the sick against the healthy, an outsider against one of their own. The cast includes Julie Benz, Carter Jenkins and Michael Nardelli.

Directors Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione shot almost the entire film on a single set, with no score and barely any movement, leaving everything to faces and words. Eighty-six minutes of a cold thought experiment about who a crowd sacrifices first. Stream Circle (2015) online on iFILM.