Director: Kourtney Roy
A search for a missing cryptozoologist pulls Kryptic into stranger territory than any ordinary case, turning a woman's investigation into a confrontation with her own identity.
What is Kryptic about?
Kryptic opens as a straightforward search: a woman goes looking for a cryptozoologist who vanished while chasing rumors of an unknown creature in the wilderness. The trail she follows, though, keeps bending away from anything a conventional investigation would expect, pulling her through landscapes and encounters that blur the line between the case she's working and questions about who she actually is. Rather than resolving into a tidy answer about the missing researcher, the film uses the search itself as a doorway into something far more personal and disorienting.
Cast & crew
Chloe Pirrie carries the film as the woman drawn into the search, with Jeff Gladstone and Jason Deline appearing in the roles she crosses paths with along the way. Ali Rusu-Tahir, Kamantha Naidoo, Jenna Hill, and Pam Kearns fill out the cast of the small towns and isolated settings her investigation leads her through.
Context & significance
Kryptic is a 2024 Canadian-British co-production directed by Kourtney Roy, blending drama, horror, and thriller elements around its central mystery. Rather than treating the cryptozoology angle as a monster-movie hook, Roy uses the missing-persons premise to build something closer to a psychological journey, with the wilderness setting standing in for the unknown parts of the protagonist's own past that the search keeps forcing to the surface. At 96 minutes, the film keeps its pace deliberately unhurried, favoring mood and disorientation over conventional scares, which places it closer to art-house horror than a straightforward creature feature.
Where & how to watch
Kryptic streams on K-Time with both a Farsi dub and Farsi subtitles available, built for Persian-speaking viewers who want either option. The film's page can be read for free; watching the film itself only requires logging into a K-Time account, on a platform designed with Farsi at its core.