The Steam Experiment

The Steam Experiment (2009) is a lean American thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Philippe Martinez traps six strangers — a footballer, a former actress, a nurse, a waitress, a restaurateur and a writer — inside a steam room. The man holding them hostage: a scientist who threatens to crank up the heat unless a local newspaper runs his global-warming exposé.

Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, and Armand Assante lead a cast making the most of tight quarters and rising temperatures. It's a bottle-movie premise executed without pretense — the claustrophobia does most of the work. Stream The Steam Experiment (2009) online on iFILM.