9 Horror Movies That Forced You To Answer Impossible Questions
3. Circle - Can You Kill 50 People In Order To Survive?
Getting abducted by aliens really sucks for the most part. There's never any nice little green men waiting to greet you with a cocktail and a futuristic holiday to the stars - instead, they're always stripping you down to your keks and sticking metal probes into your butthole whilst you're not looking, or unzipping your skin like a human duffle bag, or just generally being a menace and wreaking havoc on your mental state before spitting you back out into the world for a SyFy documentary and a life of being Crazy Jim Who Lives In A Shack.
And Circle is no different. Instead of weird extraterrestrial body horror however, Circle utilises a unique concept that doesn't reveal any alien involvement until the very last moment - instead focussing on locking 50 people into a massive empty room and making them choose who will live and die until there's one left. The room houses a whole bunch of different people from all walks of life, with one man managing to fool the room into protecting a pregnant lady only to kill her and specifically her baby to ensure his own freedom.
It's one of those movies that inherently involves you in its narrative, forcing you to consider exactly what you'd do when each 'tiebreaker' situation is thrown up to the crowd. Could you play 50 people off each other to escape?