Iron Lung (2026)

Impressive that this exists. Frustrating to sit through.

First of all, it’s way too fucking long. For a single-set film like this, it should have been a tight 90 minutes. Instead it drags, super heavy on lore for no reason - feels like it’s trying to expand the world at the expense of telling an interesting story.

The thing is, I do like the lore. A cosmic level extinction event, existential themes in a sci-fi setting - that’s exactly what I fucking love. But it’s not scary, not particularly compelling, and not told in a super interesting way. I think it would have worked if it was a little bigger in scope and a lot shorter in runtime.

Hats off to Markiplier for making this happen though. It’s impressive regardless of my thoughts on the final product.

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