2015 · horror · sci-fi · mystery
Circle
Directed by Mario Miscione, Aaron Hann1h 26m2015
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.
Our read: Circle (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · sci-fi · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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How Circle feels to watch.
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“You want a morality trap where strangers vote on who dies every two minutes.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if death-game stress and ugly group decisions will leave you drained.
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