Thrills

A flickering city, neon arteries pulsing beneath rain-slick asphalt, hosts a carnival of dread when a clandestine cabal calling itself “The Thrill-Seekers” kidnaps random citizens at dusk, forcing them through a gauntlet of clock-timed torments—razor-lit labyrinths, blindfolded rooftop leaps, gas-chamber parlors—while wagering fortunes on who will implode first from panic. At the eye of this hurricane stands Mara Vale, a part-time stunt driver and full-time cynic whose brother vanished into the game; she barters her fear for information, slipping through trapdoors, speakeasies, and shuttered cinemas where each screen projects a private ultimatum. Pursued by both a sadistic ringmaster in porcelain mask and a corrupt police task-force eager to erase embarrassing loose ends, Mara stitches together a fragile coalition: a card-shark war vet with shrapnel-trembled hands, a pickpocket kid who speaks only in film titles, and the ghost of a murdered magician whispering clues through antique radio static. Their trajectory corkscrews from moonlit piers to subterranean rollercoasters rigged with dynamite, culminating in a condemned amusement park where the final level demands not mere survival but a public confession of the one terror each contestant swore never to utter. When the ferris wheel becomes a gallows and every bulb bursts into black, Mara discovers the only exit is to invert the game—turning voyeuristic bloodlust back upon its architects in a spectacle equal parts Grand Guignol and existential striptease.