It Ends Uses a Simple Story to Ask Big Existential Questions
Four childhood friends are forced to keep driving as strangers rush from the woods, turning a post-college road trip into a 87-minute horror film.
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'It Ends': How a Gen Z Filmmaker Made One of the Year's Best Movies With $150,000 and a Car
A car. Four actors. An endless road. These essential components make up the majority of Gen Z filmmaker Alex Ullom’s debut feature, “It Ends.” The film, which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2025, follows a group of four friends who, fresh out of college and on the precipice of adulthood, find themselves stuck on a purgatorial road that never ends (likewise, they will never starve, need sleep or run out of gas). With a monotonous infini…
Movie Review | Gen Z gets a moody, existential horror in ‘It Ends’
Every generation deserves its own postgrad malaise movie. Not every attempt is going to be The Graduate or Frances Ha but, even when they’re mediocre, they’re also often a pure expression from a young filmmaker about what their contemporaries are feeling at that exact moment.
Review: IT ENDS is a Universal Nightmare That Is Ultimately Whatever You Want It to Be
Existential horror might not be new, but doing it well is a challenge that not a lot of filmmakers accomplish. Though It Ends’ director and writer Alex Ullom isn’t the first to do so, there’s an impressiveness to the level of success he has in using the film’s ambiguity to appeal to a broad audience. The character archetypes Ullom chooses to play with only broadens that universal appeal. It Ends follows four key players: Tyler (Mitchell Cole), …
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