App

App (2013) — watch online the Dutch tech-horror thriller directed by Bobby Boermans. Student Anna wakes up after a party to find a new app called Iris already installed on her phone. She didn't put it there. She can't remove it.

Iris knows her passwords, reads her messages and starts distributing compromising photos and videos to everyone in her contacts. Boermans made this in 2013, when smartphones were shifting from devices to extensions of the self — and that timing makes the threat land harder than it would in a glossier production. Hannah Hoekstra plays Anna with a grounded panic that keeps the film from feeling like a cautionary ad. A lean 75-minute thriller from the Netherlands that builds tension without needing a blockbuster budget. Stream App online on iFILM.