Waking up with no memory is unsettling enough; waking up underground, alongside four strangers who don't remember either, is the premise driving Cryo. Barrett Burgin directs this 2022 American sci-fi thriller built entirely around the mystery of how its characters got there.
What is Cryo about?
Five scientists come to inside a sealed underground facility, pulled out of cryosleep with no sense of who they are, how long they've been under, or why they were put there in the first place. As they piece together fragments of the space around them — locked doors, unfamiliar equipment, signs of a mission gone wrong — suspicion grows about which of them can be trusted and what the facility was actually built to do. Cryo leans into claustrophobic setting and slow-burn paranoia rather than action, using the characters' shared amnesia to keep both them and the audience working out the truth at the same pace. The film's science-fiction premise stays grounded in a single, contained location, letting tension build from what the characters don't know rather than from spectacle.
About the cast
Jyllian Petrie, Emily Marie Palmer, Mason D. Davis, Curt Doussett, Morgan Gunter, and Michael Flynn play the five scientists and the other figures they encounter inside the facility.
Context & significance
Cryo is an American production that keeps its science-fiction premise tightly contained, favoring a single underground setting over a wider world. That choice puts the mystery and thriller elements front and center, with the sci-fi device of cryosleep functioning mainly as the engine for the characters' memory loss rather than as a backdrop for larger spectacle. It's a small-scale approach that asks the mystery, not the setting, to carry the film, with every locked door and unexplained instrument doubling as a clue for both the characters and the audience.
Watching Cryo on Ktime
K-Time streams Cryo with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers either way to follow the story. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to watch, and the page itself is readable without signing in, with the platform built around a Farsi-first viewing experience.