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COLLAPSE

COLAPSO

By Joel PÉREZ IRIZARRY

JOEL PEREZ IRIZARRY (INDEPENDENT) - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2025

A sudden blackout traps a group of strangers in a shopping mall parking garage. As hours turn into days, tensions rise and survival instincts take over, forcing each of them to confront who they really are—and what they’re willing to do to make it out.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Countries
- PUERTO RICO, USA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Joel PÉREZ IRIZARRY
- Synopsis
- Jorge, a weary schoolteacher recently returned home, hopes to reconnect with his eight-year-old daughter Vanessa during a simple back-to-school shopping trip. They head to a luxury mall—an unlikely setting for their modest means, but Jorge wants the day to feel special. As heavy rain begins to fall and the mall winds down for the evening, Jorge and Vanessa descend into the parking garage to leave. Moments later, the gates close behind them—and don’t reopen.
  
  At first, it seems like a minor mistake. Then, they discover they are not alone. Other shoppers and employees are also trapped: a wealthy couple, a pair of college students, an elderly couple with medical needs, a deeply religious custodian, and others. Cell signals vanish. The lights flicker, then fail. Outside, nothing. No signs of life, no rescue, no explanation. What began as a normal day becomes an indefinite state of lockdown.
  
  As hours stretch into days, the group must adapt to the confined, windowless underworld of the garage. Power struggles arise. Food and fuel run low. Class tensions flare. Some form alliances; others hoard resources. A discovery—a corpse hidden behind storage crates—shatters the group's fragile trust and sends paranoia spiraling. Who can be trusted? Was the death an accident, or is someone hiding more than fear?
  
  The confined setting becomes a mirror for the world outside, exposing latent prejudices, economic divides, and personal regrets. Jorge struggles to shield his daughter not only from danger but from his own past mistakes. Meanwhile, others wrestle with whether to help each other—or to survive at any cost.
  
  Colapso is a taut, character-driven thriller about what happens when the systems we take for granted—electricity, law, order, even civility—disappear. It uses a single location to explore complex social dynamics, touching on themes of fatherhood, inequality, and collective trauma. As the group confronts the possibility that help may never come, they are forced to ask: what do we owe to one another when the world collapses?
  
  Blending psychological tension with social commentary, Colapso evokes the claustrophobia of The Mist and the social satire of The Platform, while rooting itself in the emotional core of a father trying to rebuild a broken bond. It’s a post-pandemic allegory with global relevance, built from a hyperlocal lens, where the fear is not of monsters or plague—but of each other.