Patient Zero

Patient Zero (2018) is a British-American thriller-horror directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, available to watch online on iFILM. The outbreak has already won. Most of humanity has turned, and the survivors are running out of time underground.

Morgan — played by Matt Smith — has an unusual edge: he can understand and speak the infected's mutated language. His wife is one of them. The mission is to locate the very first carrier, the theoretical patient zero, whose blood might unlock a cure. Natalie Dormer plays the virologist working alongside him, while Stanley Tucci brings a cold, scheming intelligence to an infected general who remembers exactly who he used to be. Their exchanges are where the film earns its tension.

Ruzowitzky directed The Counterfeiters, the Austrian film that took the foreign-language Oscar — here he's working in genre territory, but he keeps the focus on what people say and choose under impossible pressure. Stream Patient Zero (2018) online on iFILM.