In a future, overcrowded, dystopian society, students with the lowest test scores are culled. Two students discover errors with the test. Action,Drama,Horror "The Thinning" takes place in a future plagued by overcrowding where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test. When two students (Logan Paul and Peyton List) discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy, they must fight the system to expose it and take it down.