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The Trigger Effect (1996) is a tense drama-thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Screenwriter David Koepp steps behind the camera for the first time, and his setup is small: the power dies across one suburban neighborhood and never comes back.
No phones, no radio, no lights. Matt and Annie (Kyle MacLachlan and Elisabeth Shue) can't fill a prescription for their sick child, the pharmacy posts armed guards, and the neighbor across the street is suddenly someone to fear. When old friend Joe (Dermot Mulroney) turns up, the buried tension between the three of them surfaces fast. A single stolen gun is all it takes to change everyone's math.
Koepp keeps it claustrophobic. This is about what fear does to ordinary, decent people once the rules go dark, not about any grand collapse. The blackout is just a frayed wire and a few sleepless nights. Stream The Trigger Effect (1996) online on iFILM.
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