The Endless (2017)

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead explore cosmic recurrence in the arid hills of Southern California, where micro-bubbles of trapped time ensnare lost souls in bizarre, eternal loops. The film lingers on the unnerving complacency of these captives, who accept their scripted deaths and restarts as a comforting refuge from ordinary societal failures. By staging repetition as a seductive cosmic trap rather than an overt curse, it brilliantly captures how existential terror can masquerade as peaceful routine.