Coherence
James Ward Byrkit · 2013 · Film
This indie film offers a grounded, psychological, and terrifying exploration of the multiverse concept, focusing on the breakdown of personal identity and trust when parallel realities intersect intimately.
What it is
During a dinner party on the night a comet passes overhead, a group of friends discovers that their reality has fractured into multiple parallel versions, forcing them to confront doppelgängers and the terrifying implications for their identities and relationships.
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The film's central premise of multiple, nearly identical versions of people and situations co-existing and interacting, and the psychological horror stemming from this, directly influenced Blake Crouch's 'Dark Matter,' which similarly features a protagonist encountering alternate versions of his life.
The intimate, character-driven exploration of personal identity fracturing across parallel realities and the emotional toll of encountering alternate selves can be seen as a conceptual precursor to the more expansive but similarly character-focused multiverse exploration in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'.