5/12/2021
Mélanie Laurent plays an amnesiac who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with a countdown on her life in Alexandre Aja s lean Netflix sci-fi survival thriller.
Since the shock and gore of his 2003 breakout
High Tension ushered him into the Splat Pack, Alexandre Aja has taken an entertaining detour with rip-roaring excursions into creature horror, in the self-explanatory
Piranha 3D and the gators-in-a-hurricane disaster movie,
Crawl. The French genre specialist abandons that gleefully schlocky B-movie throwback spirit but not the taut storytelling skills in
Oxygen, a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller driven by Mélanie Laurent s gripping performance. She plays a woman who undergoes unscheduled cryogenic reanimation in a snug unit, with the clock running out on her life as she struggles to figure out who she is and how she got there.