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It Ends Reviews
Before steering things down the road to nowhere, Ullom’s script offers some sparky dialogue between what is an inevitably sketchily drawn but relatable foursome.
The real danger, Ullom suggests, isn't physical but existential - this is not about how to survive life's endless endurance test, but why bother - and his conclusions push towards the profound.
It wonderfully rides this line between opaqueness and lucidity. It doesn't hold your hand or provide much world building, yet the film's motives and themes are clear.
In the same way that Backrooms felt like an intergenerational condemnation, this film feels like an honest attempt to reveal the terror that older folks are too casually dismissing in younger folks.
There’s no attempt to extend or complicate the relatively simple plot. First-time writer-director Alex Ullom presents a straightforward yet mildly compelling narrative with a hint of 'The Twilight Zone' peeping between the lines.
When it's all said and done, the scariest notion at the center of It Ends is life and the fear that you might just get some of it wrong along the way.
Alexander Ullom’s solid debut feature explores the existential dread of a metaphorical road to nowhere.
"the kind of movie that gives you an existential crisis on top of the horror show we’re currently living in 2026"
It Ends will silently pose the questions through James and his friends' harrowing journey. But its up to each audience member to find the meaning themselves.
In terms of the writing, it was remarkably restrained. I really liked that. It is very smart about the human tendency to impute everything.
As opposed to Backrooms, I think this is much more intellectually and emotionally probing, even if it doesn't necessarily reveal all that much about why exactly this is happening.
A fabulously inventive micro-budget horror thriller...An excellent example of a talented filmmaker (debut writer/director Alexander Ullom) squeezing as much as possible from a great idea with very limited production values.
The hamster wheel of adulthood gets ironed out into an endless road with this witty thriller that riffs on both No Exit and Reality Bites. Phinehas Yoon is utterly fantastic.
One of the most profound horror movies of the year.
It Ends has a confident, admirably unfussy approach to its fantastical conceit... Yet I didn’t find these still-immature youths terribly interesting, their company as well as the narrative growing repetitious after a while.
Ullom hasn’t made the horror movie that its marketing might suggest, but he has created something more interesting than most low-budget debuts in the genre.
It Ends creeps up on you, works its way into your bones. It feels for stretches like little is happening, and you’re lulled by its rhythms, the steady drone of tires on infinite asphalt.
It's a terrific premise for characters this age.
At times fascinating as the three passengers discover the rules of this road trip from hell. You won't get many answers, but you will get terrific performances.
They don’t make badges of valor for making it through the day, but if it could, IT ENDS would break off a piece of the crown for everyone who’s made it through.