It Ends (Drama)

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Director: Alex Ullom
Producer: Keith Calder,Carrie Carusone,Jess Wu Calder,Evan Barber
Screenwriter: Alexander Ullom
Cinematographer: Evan Draper,Jazleana Jones
Composer: Matthew Robert Cooper
Editor: Alexander Ullom
Production Designer: Carrie Carusone
Key Cast: Akira Jackson,Mitchell Cole,Phinehas Yoon,Noah Toth

Four friends on a late-night drive find themselves trapped on an endless road to nowhere.

Recent college graduates Tyler, James, Fisher and Day head out for a bite to eat on one of their last nights together before life inevitably sends them off in different directions. But after missing a turn and circling back only to find a dead end that isn’t marked on Google Maps, the friends realise that they’re stuck on an infinite highway…and that something terrifying is lurking in the dense, dark forest on either side of them. Are they in purgatory? Is it a shared hallucination, or a portal to another dimension?

Using this deceptively simple premise as a jumping-off point for unexpected detours into philosophically knotty places, It Ends is a gen Z movie through and through – deeply unnerving, and speaking directly to a generation whose uncertain future can feel more frightening than any monster.

“It’s Jean-Paul Sartre with a gen Z spin, a hangout horror movie rife with existential anxieties that cinema and television have been wrestling with since their inception.” – Variety