The Platform focuses on a collection of prisoners in a stacked prison where the only food available to inmates is the leftovers of those people above them. Of course, this doesn’t bode well for prisoners in the lower levels.

Some starve to death. Some brutally attack their fellow inmates in order to get their hands on the food they so desperately need. And some partake in a little (un)healthy cannibalism.

Essentially, it’s a nightmare – one entirely focused on the worst impulses of human nature to abandon people in the service of your own needs.

Shutter Island

This one wasn’t all that popular with critics, but viewers quickly fell in love with its twisty, turny story (this writer included). Based on Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, Shutter Island sees US marshals Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), who was originally incarcerated for drowning her three children. While he’s there, though, Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place – resulting in the sort of WTF ending that’s guaranteed to get everyone arguing over what they just witnessed.

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