A hospital after dark, a brother who cannot walk, a dying stranger who knows too much: Mike Mendez's 2024 horror-thriller The Devil's Trap keeps its fright inside four walls and one long night shift.
What is The Devil’s Trap about?
Abigail spends her nights at the bedside of her brother Billy, left paraplegic and badly shaken by trauma. His sleep is worse than his waking hours; the nightmares drag him back to a childhood home ruled by a drunk, violent father. In the next bed lies Mr. Cohen, an old man close to death who talks about the siblings' past with an intimacy neither of them can account for. As the ward thins out after visiting hours, something else begins to move through the corridors, and patients and staff alike sense it long before anyone sees it. Three threads run side by side through the film: a family's buried history, a stranger's unsettling knowledge, and a presence that may not be human at all. They converge over a single night, and Abigail has to decide what she is willing to believe in order to keep her brother alive until morning.
About the cast
Bruce Dern plays Mr. Cohen, with Sofia Nistratova as Abigail and Nick Davi as Billy, the brother whose nightmares drive the story. Michael Paré, Richard Grieco, Antoni Corone, Cortney Palm and Elissa Dowling fill out the hospital's patients and staff. Mike Mendez directs.
Context & significance
Hospital corridors are a well-worn setting for horror, and The Devil's Trap uses the familiar ingredients deliberately: empty wards at night, flickering fluorescent light, a patient who cannot run, and the sense that the building itself is watching. What sets this American production apart is how much of its dread comes from memory rather than monsters. Billy's recurring visions of his father give the supernatural threat a domestic root, and Mr. Cohen's impossible knowledge turns an ordinary roommate into the most unnerving figure on the ward. At a tight eighty-five minutes, the film belongs to the compact, single-location strand of the genre rather than the sprawling franchise kind, and it arrives on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles.
Watching The Devil’s Trap on Ktime
The Devil's Trap is available on K-Time with a free account login. Viewers can pick the Persian dub or keep the original English audio with Farsi subtitles, and the K-Time interface is fully available in Farsi.