The Price We Pay

The Price We Pay (2023) is a crime-horror film directed by Ryûhei Kitamura — watch online on iFILM. A pawn shop robbery comes apart fast. Two of the robbers — one wounded — grab a civilian hostage and head to a remote farmhouse to wait out the police.

The farmhouse is not empty. The genre shifts: Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff's criminal energy gives way to something rawer when the property's actual occupants make themselves known. Gigi Zumbado plays Grace, the hostage, who stops being passive long before the credits roll. Tyler Sanders rounds out the group.

Kitamura directed Versus and The Midnight Meat Train — he has a track record of pulling uncomfortable, hard-edged genre work from tight budgets. The final act here is no exception. Stream The Price We Pay (2023) online on iFILM.