A brand new Japanese horror masterpiece based on the Japanese video game of the same name that’s set to become an instant cult classic all around the world.
A devilishly entertaining time at the movies… Exit 8 is a cinematic captcha, tasking us with finding the difference between one image and the next to prove our humanity.
Exit 8 2025
Hachiban Deguchi
| Aug 13 |
|
Ask anyone — it’s easy to get lost in the Tokyo subway. Genki Kawamura’s delightful blockbuster provocation Exit 8 understands and exploits these frustrations, transforming these claustrophobic corridors into a site of psychological exploration, personal choice, and national anxieties.
Quite possibly the first video game adaptation to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Exit 8 contains no jump scares. It instead succeeds through a cumulative anxiety, where we could be stuck here forever, and that something genuinely horrific could eventually appear within this cyclical space.
It’s a devilishly entertaining time at the movies, building to an exhilarating finale that centers why The Lost Man, or indeed the viewer, should want to leave this recursive labyrinth. — Blake Simons, IndieWire