Exit 8, a live-action horror movie adaptation of the anomaly-spotting indie game of the same name, opened at movie theaters in Japan on August 29. Despite enjoying a profitable opening weekend, the ...

Cannes: Kawamura’s delightful blockbuster provocation, hailing from Toho, adapts the virally successful 2023 independent video game in smart and surprising ways. Ask anyone — it’s easy to get lost in ...

Video game adaptations are tough. From the polarizing second season of The Last of Us to the bevy of adaptations preceding it, it's difficult to get it right. The obvious missing element of the player ...

A lost man desperately counts the number of doors and lockers in a nondescript hallway. He obsessively checks the words written on hanging banners, and looks for any kind of visual indication that ...

Genki Kawamura’s “Exit 8” is a thriller unlike any other. Based on the 2023 video game, an unnamed protagonist (Kazunari Ninomiya) gets trapped in an endlessly repeating patch of a subway station ...

At the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Collider's Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to sit down with Japanese filmmaker, producer, and novelist Genki Kawamura (A Hundred Flowers) and actor and singer ...

I’ve long been fascinated by what I call No Exit Horror, a term I’ve coined for a sub-genre rooted in existential dread, where characters are trapped in singular, oppressive spaces they cannot escape.

Reviews from day 1 of TIFF 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Nouvelle Vague, Exit 8, and It Was Just An Accident. Reviews from day 1 of TIFF 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Nouvelle Vague, Exit 8, ...