Director: Mark Fischbach
Cast: Mark Fischbach, Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock, Elle LaMont
Iron Lung is a 2026 American science-fiction horror film directed by Mark Fischbach, set in a bleak post-apocalyptic future where a lone convict pilots a submarine through a blood-red ocean on a desolate moon, hunting for answers that civilization can no longer provide.
What is Iron Lung about?
Following an extinction-level occurrence known as The Quiet Rapture, the Earth as humanity knew it is gone. A convicted man finds himself aboard a cramped submersible vessel — the Iron Lung — navigating a vast, crimson sea that covers the surface of a barren moon. His mission: locate stars and planets that have inexplicably vanished from the sky. Claustrophobic corridors, eerie silence, and the ever-present weight of an empty universe press down on him as he inches closer to a truth that may be more terrifying than the void outside his hull. The film builds its dread slowly, using isolation and cosmic scale to unsettling effect.
Cast & crew
Writer-director Mark Fischbach, known to millions online as Markiplier, makes an ambitious feature debut, pulling double duty as the film's lead performer. He is joined by Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker — a beloved voice actor recognized across gaming — Elsie Lovelock, Elle LaMont, Mick Lauer, Dave Pettitt, and Holt Boggs, forming a cast that bridges internet culture and professional performance.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Iron Lung carries particular resonance in its themes of displacement, survival in an indifferent cosmos, and the search for what has been lost — feelings many Iranians abroad know intimately. The film is available with a full Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, making it fully accessible to Farsi speakers of all generations without any language barrier. Horror-sci-fi hybrids that dwell on existential dread rather than cheap scares have a loyal audience among diaspora viewers who grew up with both Hollywood genre cinema and Persian storytelling traditions.
Where & how to watch
Iron Lung is available on K-Time with a full Persian dub and Persian subtitles. You can watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone with no VPN needed and no geo-blocking. Start watching today and cancel anytime.