The Latest Breaking News from Exit 8

Backrooms and Exit 8 make the perfect double feature for videogame-adjacent horror movies

Quiet. Tense. Creepy. And not overstuffed with lore or exposition.

PC Gamer · May 29

‘Opening the hidden door within us’: how Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory

Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tunnels. He explains how this makes viewers and players face their worst fears

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24

Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

A commuter’s entrapment in an Escher-esque subway station provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22

Video game adaptation Exit 8 is more than just a horror movie about liminal space – it's an examination of fear at the most intimate level

Big Screen Spotlight | Director Genki Kawamura talks "pulling out our biggest fears" in the new horror thriller

Total Film · Apr 10

How An Eerie New Thriller Revolutionizes The Video Game Movie

Director Genki Kawamura speaks about how his adaptation of the video game 'Exit 8' "blurs the line between video games and movies."

Inverse · Apr 10

Shigeru Miyamoto gave Exit 8's director some advice 10 years ago that completely changed the approach to his indie horror adaptation

He didn't want to make a direct adaptation of the game

Total Film · Apr 10

Exit 8 and horror indie game movie adaptations like Iron Lung and Five Nights at Freddy's only work when directors understand what made them viral

Opinion | Indie horror games are having their movie moment, and I hope it lasts

Total Film · Apr 9

A new version of The Exit 8 releases on Roblox to celebrate the upcoming film's premiere

Be on the lookout for new anomalies.

PC Gamer · Apr 8

Exit 8 director took inspiration from The Shining for the upcoming horror movie's unique sound design: "I think [it] gets under our skin and kind of like mentally corners us"

Exclusive: Genki Kawamura talks the unique sound design of Exit 8

Total Film · Apr 7

Exit 8 director wants to reinvent video game adaptations and blur the "borders between the movie and game mediums"

Exclusive: Genki Kawamura talks blending mediums in Exit 8

Total Film · Apr 7