A young Japanese man trapped in a brightly lit, surreal hallway desperately counts the number of doors, vents, and lockers. He obsessively checks the words written on the poster ads lining the walls, ...

Director Genki Kawamura’s big-screen take on the indie video game hit follows a man who can’t find his way out of a Tokyo subway tunnel. By Jordan Mintzer The press notes for the high-concept, ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Min. (WEAU) - “Exit 8” screened Thursday as part of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. I wasn’t at the screening, but did watch “Exit 8” back in February. I really ...

Video games have gotten better film and TV adaptations these days. Since 2020, we’ve gotten hits like the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, HBO’s The Last of Us, and Netflix’s Arcane. Now, indie film ...

The popular video game The Exit 8, published, in 2023, by the Japanese indie developer Kotake Create, is what aficionados call a “walking simulator,” and what I’d call elegantly minimalist existential ...

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Indie horror movies have been killing it (pun intended) for the past decade with their focus on nerve-shredding dread and pathos out the ass. In the video game space, it’s a similar situation. While ...