The Buildout

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The Buildout

2024,

1h 10m,

Drama/

Horror

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In THE BUILDOUT, a friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert.

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Kat Hughes

The Hollywood News

Aug 5, 2025

3/5

A classic example of slow burn cinema done right, The Buildout feels like a spiritual cousin to the works of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

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Stephanie Malone

Morbidly Beautiful

Aug 5, 2025

4/5

This is a film about searching: searching for self, purpose, belonging, and forgiveness. It's about a quest that is daunting, even terrifying, but universally human—brought to life by two exquisite performances.

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Lee Zumpe

Tampa Bay Newspapers

Mar 16, 2025

For his feature film debut, Younus has constructed a captivating ideation that is beguilingly resplendent but ultimately insufficient. Its fragmentary, oblique structure leaves too much territory sadly unexplored.

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Kyle Logan

ScreenAnarchy

Mar 14, 2025

The Buildout isn’t a found footage horror movie about a spooky mystery in the desert, it’s a meditative movie about friendship, grief, self-narratives, and the colliding of all three.

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Q.V. Hough

Vague Visages

Feb 26, 2025

“With a brisk running time of approximately 64 minutes, ‘The Buildout’ showcases a storyteller in harmony with a specific cinematic vision about life, death, trauma and healing through friendship.”

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Ally Ham

The Review Geek

Feb 25, 2025

5/10

Although there are some beautiful shots and the vision is certainly there, the direction lacks the creativity needed to elevate this feature debut to higher emotional peaks.

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Synopsis

In THE BUILDOUT, a friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert.

Director: Zeshaan Younus
Producer: Zeshaan Younus, Trevor Dillon, Sailor Larocque
Screenwriter: Zeshaan Younus, Zeshaan Younus
Distributor: Ethos Releasing
Production Co: something metal LLC
Genre: Drama, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 25, 2025
Runtime: 1h 10m

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