20 Best Netflix Original Horror Movies - Ranked

If non-English genre films rarely catch on with the mainstream, Spanish sci-fi horror The Platform became a viral sensation earlier this year, coincidentally released just as major quarters of the world were encouraged to shelter-in-place.

And the premise is, frankly, fantastic: a man (Iván Massagué) wakes up in a tower-like prison, where a platform stocked with food travels from the top of the tower to the bottom, ensuring those on the bottom are only able to consume whatever those above have left for them.

It gets no points for subtlety in the allegorical stakes, but as a canny genre effort it's undeniably effective, both in terms of its surprisingly sharp production values and the performances of the central cast.

As a precise, potent statement on the darker side of human nature, The Platform is both deliriously entertaining and unavoidably grim.