Iron Lung (2026)

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Title: Iron Lung (2026)

Tagline: This is not an expedition… it’s an execution.

Genre: Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery

Director: Mark Fischbach

Cast: Mark Fischbach, Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock, Elle LaMont, Mick Lauer, Dave Pettitt, Holt Boggs, Isaac McKee, Roman Parsons Crow, River Van Coleman Crow, Townes Blaine Crow, Asher Wagh, Kazuki Jalal, Alanah Pearce, Seán McLoughlin, David Szymanski, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Rahul Kohli, Ethan Nestor, Valkyrae, Mika Midgett

Release: 2026-01-30

Runtime: 127

Plot: The stars are gone. The planets have disappeared. Only individuals aboard space stations or starships were left to give the end a name -- The Quiet Rapture. After decades of decay and crumbling infrastructure, the Consolidation of Iron has made a discovery on a barren moon designated AT-5. An ocean of blood. Hoping to discover desperately needed resources they immediately launch an expedition. A submarine is crafted and a convict is welded inside. Due to the pressure and depth of the ocean the forward viewport has been encased in metal. If successful, they will earn their freedom. If not, another will follow. This will be the 13th expedition.

 
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Saw this tonight. Markiplier has never been on my radar. Insane that the guy has 38 million Youtube subscribers and I have basically never heard of him.

Iron Lung is a small Art House type of feature. Budget shows it was made for about $3m and considering the tiny budget, it's a pretty good movie. The whole movie takes place inside a submarine and Mark is basically the only actor on screen for 98% of the time. It is atmospheric, it's claustrophobic, and it's pretty good sci-fi horror.

It will be a love it or hate it type of experience for a lot of people. Even though I have never played Iron Lung, I would say it did the video-movie genre of movies proud.
 
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Fight said:
Insane that the guy has 38 million Youtube subscribers and I have basically never heard of him.
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Yeah, it's kind of shocking how Balkanized the internet has become, such as this year when I asked myself who the hell is ishowspeed and why is he covering an NFL game on Youtube only to find out he has more subscribers than the population of most countries in Europe, or wondering why there's Mr Beast branded crap in stores only to find out he has more subscribers than the population of the US and Canada.

In my case I had never heard of Markiplier or Jacksepticeye outside of Ninja Sex Party cameos until my niece was watching reaction videos, saw they had tens of millions of subscribers, and realized "Ah, that's why the Hollywood model is fucked, and is rapidly breaking down to a handful of utterly formulaic tentpoles and low budget dice tosses."

That said, just because they have internet fans doesn't mean they'll follow them to other media, or that they can make anything of value themselves. I considered what I saw of Markiplier's Amazon show The Edge of Sleep to be the most amateurish production I've seen outside of stuff on Best of the Worst. (The glaring competency exception being the goth girl, who already is a series regular on a broadcast medical show, so good on her.) I can't help but notice that even your review couches it in terms of its budget, and it'll be interesting to see if this or any other Youtuber production has any legs beyond their first weeks.
 
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Iron Lung's premise is interesting to me, but it isn't the sort of game I'd really want to play, so I'll keep an eye out on this.
 
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Wife and kids saw this, first half is kind of boring but the last half is decent. Son who really liked the game enjoyed the movie a lot more than the Son who didn’t enjoy the game as much. Wife said it was okay and worth seeing on cheap Tuesday.
Snacks are overpriced.
 
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Friend is a Markpilier simp and pushed hard to watch this. I stood my ground that anything he does is C level after checking out his TV series he had.

Sounds like it was exactly what I expected.
 
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Watched this the other day. It's very strange, but hard to understand what the hell is going on. Great atmosphere.
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What's great about it? It's like a guy sitting in his moms basement and she keeps yelling for him to come up for dinner and he keeps doing dumb shit instead of coming up.
 
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It's obviously not your type of film. Move on.
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This might actually be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. A guy sitting in a closet talking to a baby monitor for 2 hours.

The monster is some still frame pixilated deviant art on a black and white jpg picture frame.

Utterly retarded.

The whole time I was watching this I was thinking damn, maybe Battlefield Earth and Blair Witch weren't so bad after all.
 
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