NEON has announced that they’re giving writer/director Alex Ullom’s acclaimed horror thriller It Ends a theatrical release on August 21st, and they have made that announcement by unveiling a short video that can be found at the bottom of this article. As our friends at Bloody Disgusting note, It Ends premiered at SXSW last year and later won Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival – and in two months, a wider audience is going to have the chance to see the film.
What is It Ends about?
Ullom’s story has the following synopsis: Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.
Ullom told Bloody Disgusting, “This was always a movie that was more about how we live with horror than about the actual horror. I make this joke too much, but I always wanted to see the family in Hereditary give a postgame interview and just be like, ‘Yeah, that was terrifying. That was absolutely terrifying.’ Then, they all die, obviously, but like they go about their lives. The movie is constantly recontextualizing the things that happen in it, so when they find the first car, it’s very scary. Then, later in the movie, they find cars all the time. It’s nothing. It was always in the design for the characters to slowly try to live with everything they just went through, which I think is also very relevant to the time we live in, where there’s just crazy stuff happening every day, and you just kind of f*cking exist with it.“
Who stars in the film?
Here’s the cast line-up:
- Akira Jackson (Urban Flesh Eaters) as Day
- Phinehas Yoon (One True Loves) as James
- Mitchell Cole (Against the Spread) as Tyler
- Noah Toth (Hollywood Casting Confessions) as Fisher
It Ends was produced by Carry Carusone, Evan Barber, Jess Calder, and Keith Calder.
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