Director: Alexis Jacknow
Time is the real antagonist in Clock, a body-horror thriller that turns the pressure women face around motherhood into something genuinely unsettling.
What is Clock about?
Ella is about to turn thirty-eight, financially secure, happily married, and completely uninterested in having children. That last part worries everyone around her, from her father to her own doctor, enough that she enrolls in an experimental fertility clinic promising to reset her biological clock. What starts as a routine, if invasive, program of therapy sessions and hormone treatments begins to warp into something far stranger, as Ella's nights fill with visions she can no longer separate from reality. Alexis Jacknow, directing from his own script, keeps the clinic's motives ambiguous for most of the runtime, letting dread accumulate through clinical white rooms and unnervingly calm staff rather than jump scares. The film uses its 92 minutes efficiently, building outward pressure from family dinners and baby showers before turning inward once Ella checks in for treatment.
Cast & crew
Dianna Agron anchors the film as Ella, playing the character's exhaustion and resentment with a controlled intensity that keeps the horror grounded in something recognizable. Jay Ali and Saul Rubinek round out the cast as the men in her orbit, while Melora Hardin brings a clipped, clinical calm to the fertility program's staff that makes the setting feel more clinical than gothic.
Context & significance
Clock arrived in 2023 as part of a wave of horror films using genre conventions to examine reproductive pressure and bodily autonomy, pairing psychological dread with the specific anxiety of being told your choices are a problem to be fixed. The setting stays contemporary and grounded, with the clinic itself functioning as the film's only real departure from everyday realism.
Where & how to watch
Clock streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles available, so it plays comfortably for Farsi-speaking households without sacrificing the English-language performances for viewers who prefer the original track. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to watch; the site itself is open to browse without logging in.