KOTAKE CREATE’s video game Exit 8 is getting a film adaptation from Toho and director Genki Kawamura, and we’ve learned that NEON has picked up the film for release.

“Following its World Premiere at Cannes, Exit 8 will have its North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival,” NEON announced. “Coming soon to theaters.”

Exit 8 is expected in theaters from NEON sometime in 2026.

The walking simulator traps players in an infinite underground loop in a sterile subway passageway, mining psychological scares from liminal spaces. 

Here’s the cryptic synopsis: “You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach The Exit 8. Don’t overlook any anomalies. If you find anomalies, turn back immediately. If you don’t find anomalies, do not turn back.”

Genki Kawamura (Monster, Suzume) writes, produces, and directs Exit 8. Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, and Nana Komatsu will star.

The original video game The Exit 8 is available now for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam. The hit video game has been downloaded over 1.4 million times.

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Ugly things are scorned in The Ugly, a South Korean mystery thriller from Train to Busan writer-director Yeon Sang-ho.

Variety reports that Well Go USA has acquired North American rights to the film, setting a September 26 theatrical release date following its Toronto International Film Festival premiere next month.

Based on Yeon’s 2018 graphic novel Face, the movie stars Park Jeong-min (Decision to Leave) and Kwon Hae-hyo (Peninsula).

It follows Im Yeong-gyu, a master artisan who has been hand-carving beautiful, engraved seals despite having been born blind. One day, his son Dong-hwan receives a call from the police, informing them that Young-hee, their wife and mother, who disappeared 40 years ago, has been found as skeletal remains.

Upon hearing that the mother whose face he’s never known may have been murdered, Dong-hwan begins investigating her death with Su-jin, a producer who has been filming a documentary about Yeong-gyu. Through the memories of those who worked with his mother at a garment factory 40 years ago, Dong-hwan comes face-to-face with the long-hidden truth.

Yeon produces alongside Wow Point, with whom he previously collaborated on “Parasyte: The Grey” and Revelations.

“The Ugly is a gripping mystery thriller that explores the dark undercurrents of family and long-buried secrets,” said Well Go USA President Doris Pfardrescher. “With riveting performances from Park and Kwon and a masterfully layered script from Yeon Sang-ho, the film is a powerful testament to the emotional and narrative depth of global cinema.”

Sang-ho is currently working on his next film, the virus thriller Colony, which is due out next year.

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The Grabber is back from the dead in director Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 this coming Halloween season, and the film’s official “R” rating from the MPA has arrived.

Black Phone 2 is rated “R” for “Strong violent content, gore, teen drug use, and language.”

For the sake of comparison, The Black Phone was rated “R” back in 2022 for “Violence, bloody images, language and some drug use.” So it sounds like Part 2 is increasing the gore!

The horror sequel opens in theaters on October 17 from Blumhouse and Universal.

“Four years ago, 13-year-old Finn killed his abductor and escaped, becoming the sole survivor of The Grabber. But true evil transcends death … and the phone is ringing again.

“Four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke returns to the most sinister role of his career as The Grabber seeks vengeance on Finn (Mason Thames) from beyond the grave by menacing Finn’s younger sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw).

“As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, the headstrong 15-year-old Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.

“Determined to solve the mystery and end the torment for both her and her brother, Gwen persuades Finn to visit the camp during a winter storm. There, she uncovers a shattering intersection between The Grabber and her own family’s history.

“Together, she and Finn must confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.”

Scott Derrickson returns to direct from a script he co-wrote with C. Robert Cargill. Joe Hill, author of the short story on which the 2021 film was based, executive produces.

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The song most often associated with Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects might be “Freebird,” but it’s the music of Terry Reid that serves as the musical voice of the film throughout. Zombie memorably used three of Reid’s songs to great effect in his sequel to House of 1000 Corpses, and in fact it was Reid’s music that was a source of inspiration on 3 from Hell years later.

We’re sad to learn this week that Terry Reid has passed away at the age of 75.

Rob Zombie used Reid’s songs “Brave Awakening,” “To Be Treated Rite,” and “Seed of Memory” in The Devil’s Rejects, all three plucked from Reid’s album Seed of Memory. Released in 1976, it was Reid’s fourth studio album, and Zombie has cited it as one of his personal favorites.

Zombie stated in a video for Google Play several years ago (watch it below), “My favorite album is Terry Reid’s Seed of Memory. Some people remember Terry Reid because there was always the rumor that he was supposed to be the original lead singer of Led Zeppelin back in the day, but he had his own solo career. You think to yourself, ‘Who could possibly replace Robert Plant,’ but when you hear Terry Reid, he’s just as phenomenal of a voice. It’s one of those sad cases where it’s just the most genius record ever made and not that many people know about it.”

Back in 2019 prior to the release of The Devil’s Rejects sequel 3 from Hell, Zombie explained to Bloody Disgusting how Terry Reid’s music helped to resurrect his trio of Firefly maniacs.

Zombie told us at the time, “Whenever I would listen to Terry Reid… there’s a lot of Terry Reid songs in The Devil’s Rejects, off his album Seed of Memory. But there’s a couple of songs that I didn’t use, and every time I would hear them, they sounded like songs that I should use.”

“I would hear the songs and I would so closely link his voice and that album with the characters that I would just start seeing images,” Zombie explained. “I started just coming up with these ideas how they could have survived and what could have happened. It was not like a full story arc or anything, it was just basic moments, and that’s what sort of got the ball rolling.”

Rob Zombie ended up using Terry Reid’s songs “The Frame” and “Faith to Arise” in 3 from Hell, even further linking the musician to Zombie’s career and most enduring film achievement.

You can learn more about Terry Reid – who did indeed turn down offers to join both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple – by reading Variety’s obituary that dives deep into his music career.

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