NEON has u/nveiled the trailer for It Ends, the acclaimed horror thriller from writer/director Alex Ullom, ahead of the film’s theatrical release on August 21st. Check it out in the embed above!
After premiering at SXSW last year and later winning Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival, It Ends is now preparing to introduce a wider audience to its unsettling story of survival, repetition, and the horror of being trapped in a nightmare that won’t end.
What is It Ends about?
Ullom’s story has the following synopsis:
“Some wrong turns last forever. A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Cramped together inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it.”
While It Ends features the kind of terrifying imagery and survival elements horror fans expect, Ullom has explained that the film is less about the immediate scares and more about how people adapt when horror becomes part of everyday life.
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 It Ends?
The cast includes:
- 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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