“Are you lost?” Neon has debuted their own official US language trailer for the Japanese film Exit 8, a time loop horror thriller from filmmaker Genki Kawamura. This film is legit! It premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Midnight section last year and at tons of other genre fests as well (view the first trailer). A man gets lost in an underground passage for the metro. He follows the “guide” through the tunnel, but one after another, strange things happen to him. Is this space real? Or an illusion? Will the man ever be able to escape? This is based on a video game (play on Steam) and replicates the experience quite accurately. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape the infinite corridor? The film stars Kazunari Ninomiya and Yamato Kochi. I saw this in Sitges and it’s fantastic – an exceptionally clever take on the trapped in a time loop concept that goes places you will not be expecting. Catch it in US theaters this April. // Continue Reading ›
