After premiering to much buzz at last year’s SXSW, director Alex Ullom’s new film It Ends is finally coming to theaters. After acquiring the film late last year, NEON announced that the new summer horror film is coming to theaters this August, putting it alongside films like The End of Oak Street, Insidious: Out of the Further, and more.
Written and directed by Ullom, It Ends stars Akira Jackson, Phinehas Yoon, Mitchell Cole, and Noah Toth as four college kids caught in a road trip nightmare. The film’s synopsis is as follows:
Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.
The new addition joins a stacked summer lineup for NEON, whose list of upcoming films includes the queer horror Leviticus hitting theaters tomorrow, as well as the Japanese sci-fi drama Sheep in the Box and Nicholas Winding Refn’s new film Her Private Hell, starring Sophie Thatcher.
But while the only other release NEON has planned for August is Kristen Stewart’s stoner comedy The Wrong Girls, It Ends will have plenty of competition when it comes to fellow theatrical releases that month. August begins with Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, followed by David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street and Insidious: Out of the Further, the latter of which will be directly competing with It Ends on the same opening weekend.
And that’s not counting the other non-horror films coming out in late summer — though I don’t think anyone has to worry about Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie stealing It Ends’ audiences, thank goodness. Support independent cinema!
It Ends hits theaters on August 21.
