The Platform

The Platform (El hoyo, 2019) is a Spanish sci-fi thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia traps you inside a vertical prison where a feast descends floor by floor.

Goreng wakes up on level 48 with no memory of how he got there. The rule is brutally simple: a platform loaded with food drops from the top, and each level eats whatever the people above left behind. Gorge yourself and dozens below you starve. Every month the cells reshuffle, so today's comfortable diner becomes tomorrow's man trapped in the pit. Iván Massagué plays the prisoner who tries to convince his neighbors to ration the food. Almost nobody listens.

Gaztelu-Urrutia builds a parable about class and greed inside one claustrophobic concrete shaft. The film won the People's Choice Midnight Madness award at Toronto and became a runaway hit on Netflix, with an ending people still argue about. Stream The Platform (2019) online on iFILM.