Director: Sam Macaroni
Three strangers get trapped between floors in Blackout, a 2024 horror-tinged thriller that turns a stalled elevator into a pressure cooker of paranoia and violence.
What is Blackout about?
The setup starts small: a broken elevator, three passengers who have never met, and a delay that should resolve itself within minutes. Instead, the confinement drags on, tempers fray, and buried secrets among the trio start surfacing in ways none of them expected. Director Sam Macaroni builds the 85-minute runtime almost entirely inside that single confined space, using the trapped setting to escalate suspicion into something far more dangerous before the doors finally open again.
Cast & crew
Josh Duhamel and Abbie Cornish lead the small ensemble as two of the stranded passengers, with Omar Chaparro, Nick Nolte, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Bárbara de Regil, Robert Dobson and Pedro López filling out the surrounding cast caught up in the incident. The tight roster suits the single-location premise, letting each performer register as a distinct suspect rather than getting lost in a crowd.
Context & significance
Blackout is a compact 2024 genre entry that leans on claustrophobia rather than large sets or effects, joining a lineage of thrillers that trap a handful of characters together and let pressure do the storytelling. Its IMDb score of 5.0 places it among the more divisive releases of the year, with viewers split on how far a single confined premise can stretch across a full feature. The film relies almost entirely on its cast's chemistry and the mounting sense of being watched to keep the middle stretch tense, rather than on jump scares or elaborate effects work. Persian dubbing is available for the film, though it does not currently carry Persian subtitles.
Where & how to watch
Blackout streams on K-Time with a free account login, dubbed into Persian for audiences who prefer to watch in their own language, all inside a Farsi-friendly interface built for the Iranian diaspora.