Far too unknown sci-fi horror on Netflix kills every 2 minutes – so you question your morals

Have you ever heard of Der Kreis (Circle)? I didn’t until recently. I stumbled across the 2015 film by accident on Netflix, and its genre falls somewhere between horror, sci-fi, and gritty social study. It became one surprisingly exciting trip into human abysses.

Sci-fi horror on Netflix: The circle puts the moral gun on your chest

Unusually for a sci-fi film, Netflix’s The Circle takes place in one place most of the time: 50 people wake up in a dark room. They stand in two rows, arranged in a circle, on fixed markers. At its center is a black sphere of unknown, possibly extraterrestrial nature. And this bullet brings death. When someone leaves their mark or two minutes have elapsed again, a lightning strike randomly kills a person. Those present are evident caught in a human experiment.

But as it turns out, the prisoners of The Circle have a Say-right who’s next dies. All abductees have one vote and can steer the election to someone else by majority vote – in order to survive at least for the next two minutes.

With this trick, Netflix’s sci-fi horror film opens its moral abyss before us. Because different ethnic groups and age groups are represented among the 50 participants. It doesn’t take long for all the ugly human facets of selfishness, racism, prejudice and “natural selection” of the elderly and the sick to surface. Do pregnant women have a greater right to live? What happens to mother and child when only one person left in the end can? Fronts form among those present, who choose the next victim more and more purposefully.

And we always ask ourselves as Netflix viewers: what would we do

Netflix’s sci-fi film The Circle exposes the horrors of human nature

Mario Miscione and Aaron Hann’s Circle is a concept horror film that will be enjoyed mostly by those who like their films to delve into moral and sometimes bitter dilemmas embark Because just as quickly as favorites stand out among the sci-fi prisoners, they can gamble away their sympathy bonus (and their lives) again. A few faces like Julie Benz’s (Dexter) might look familiar, but that’s no guarantee of survival.

As a dystopian human study, The Circle is reminiscent of The Hunger Games as well as the Squid Game and combines this principle with that deadly chamber play of works like Cube or Escape Room. The Netflix film focuses even more on the decision to survive: Would we give up our lives for a stranger? And what if this stranger was a young girl?

The answers that this, fortunately for us, only theoretical thought experiment at Netflix provides will not be revealed at this point. But as a dark suspense trip, Der Kreis is not only worthwhile for sci-fi and horror fans.

Podcast: Why The Blacklist is so popular – and the ending will still disappoint

The Blacklist with James Spader is a phenomenon. Amidst the prestige series Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, the crime series kicks off on September 23, 2013 with a compelling prelude. That was the beginning of an impressive success story.

Season 10 is currently on and it will be the last. In the podcast we ask ourselves two questions that have been on our mind for a long time: Why is The Blacklist so popular? And is a satisfying ending even possible?

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