Director: Michael Winnick
Waking up injured in a hospital that seems to have been emptied out overnight, Sam finds that leaving might be far harder than surviving whatever put him there in the first place, in this 2023 horror-thriller Disquiet.
What is Disquiet about?
Sam is driving when a violent crash leaves him badly hurt, and the next thing he knows he is coming to inside a hospital that looks abandoned. The halls are dim, the equipment is outdated, and there is no staff to be found beyond a handful of unsettling presences that seem less interested in treating him than in keeping him inside. Every attempt to find an exit or make sense of his surroundings runs into new obstacles, and the building itself starts to feel less like a place of recovery and more like a trap built specifically around him. As Sam pieces together fragments of what happened before the crash, the film keeps shifting the ground under him, blurring the line between the physical injuries he suffered and something far less explainable working against him. Disquiet leans into claustrophobic corridors and long stretches of near-silence to keep the pressure on its lead character and its audience alike.
Cast & crew
Jonathan Rhys Meyers carries the film as Sam, spending much of the runtime isolated and reacting to a location that keeps turning against him, which puts real weight on his performance to sustain tension. Rachelle Goulding and Elyse Levesque appear as figures inside the hospital whose intentions stay deliberately unclear, while Lochlyn Munro and Garry Chalk round out a supporting cast built around the film's slow-burn dread rather than large ensemble scenes.
Context & significance
Director Michael Winnick shot Disquiet as a single-location thriller, using the confined hospital setting to build tension gradually rather than relying on jump scares alone. At 85 minutes, the film's compact runtime matches its stripped-down premise, keeping the focus tightly on Sam's attempts to understand where he is and why he cannot leave.
Where & how to watch
Disquiet streams on K-Time with a free account login, presented with Persian dubbing and subtitles so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow Sam's ordeal in their own language, joining K-Time's wider horror and thriller selection for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.