Iron Lung is an intense science fiction horror film that plunges viewers into a terrifying cosmic nightmare where stars and habitable worlds have vanished. Humanity struggles for survival on crumbling space stations, desperate for resources in a dark, empty void. When an impossible ocean of blood is discovered on a desolate moon, a convict named Simon is welded into the SM-13, a rusting and windowless submarine, and sent into the crimson depths. Because the porthole is encased in iron, Simon relies on a grainy, high-radiation camera to navigate. As he descends, the isolation causes his sanity to crack, revealing that the ocean is a conscious, predatory presence.

Iron Lung is a claustrophobic masterclass in futility. It doesn’t just show us a monster; it forces us to sit in a tiny metal coffin and watch as a man realises that in a universe where the light has gone out, there is no such thing as a safe return.