I never thought I’d see a video game adaptation playing the film festival circuit, but there’s a first time for anything, in this instance being TIFF 2025 film Exit 8, based on the indie horror title ...

Genki Kawamura's "Exit 8," an inventive reimagining of an enjoyable puzzle videogame, makes a surprisingly successful ...

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 ...

Based on a video game that should be impossible to adapt, Genki Kawamura turns in a nerve-shredding, claustrophobic horror-thriller in the form of Exit 8. The Cannes Midnight selection—which is now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neon has acquired North American rights to Japanese thriller Exit 8, which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the midnight section. Based on the hit video game, the film will make ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...