The Killing Jar

The Killing Jar (2010) is a single-room crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. One isolated roadside diner, late at night, seven strangers eating in silence — and a man with a shotgun who locks the doors and turns them all into hostages.

From there it's a tense waiting game between four walls. Michael Madsen plays the captor with stares and long pauses instead of speeches, with Harold Perrineau and Lew Temple among the trapped and Danny Trejo turning up along the way. The longer the night drags on and the bodies pile up, the clearer it becomes: one of the terrified hostages is far more dangerous than the gunman. Writer-director Mark Young keeps the whole thing in one location and wrings the dread out of dialogue, glances and who's lying to whom — no chases, no explosions. Good pick if you like confined thrillers where nobody's story holds up. Stream The Killing Jar (2010) online on iFILM.