MOVIE NEWS – The Japanese horror film Exit 8 premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and will be released in Hungarian cinemas on February 12. The Hungarian-language trailer has now been released.

The horror film Exit 8, written, directed, and produced by Japanese author and filmmaker Genki Kawamura, premiered in the Midnight Screenings section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on the video game of the same title.

A man finds himself trapped in an endless, eerily white subway passage. His task is to locate Exit 8. The rules are simple: he must not ignore anything unusual. If he notices any anomaly in the underpass, he must immediately turn back. If nothing seems different, he must continue walking until he reaches Exit 8. But a single moment of inattention is enough to send him back to the beginning of the tunnel. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this endless corridor?

Exit 8 is based on the 2023 Japanese adventure game of the same name, in which players walk through a subway corridor while searching for signs and anomalies in order to reach the exit. Developed over nine months on a low budget, the game was inspired by the concept of so-called liminal spaces, evoking the surreal feeling of an empty underpass.

The game received positive reviews, with praise directed at its psycho-horror elements and realistic environment. Given this foundation, adapting it into a horror film that remains faithful to the original game was a natural step.

A writer for Screen Daily compared the film to an infinite purgatory. According to a Variety critic, comparisons to the cult classic Cube are unavoidable, but Exit 8 is “simpler, cleaner, and less concerned with logically grounding its premise. Instead, the trick lies in replacing a subjective perspective with […] an added psychological layer. In the film, the protagonist’s situation is defined by a turning point in his life, or rather, by the constant turning points of Exit 8.”

Exit 8 will be released in Hungarian cinemas on February 12, 2026, distributed by ADS Service.

Source: ADS Film