A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Acting
Mélanie Laurent carries 90 minutes alone — sweaty, terrified, magnificent.
Production
Cryo-pod set is a marvel of compact, oppressive production design.
Direction
Aja finally ditches gore for pure psychological suffocation.
Director
Alexandre Aja
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mélanie Laurent filmed most scenes alone in a practical pod rig that actually restricted her movement — method acting by architecture.
Released during peak pandemic lockdowns, it accidentally became the ultimate quarantine metaphor — French existential horror for the isolated masses.
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