PG-13

Exit 8

Turn back.

2025 • 95 min • Horror · Mystery · Thriller

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Synopsis

A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?

Our family guide

Best from age 14

Movie Knight Score

679 reviews

100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
70 Audience · 677 · 49%

A man is trapped in an endless subway passage, searching for Exit 8. To escape, he must carefully observe his surroundings: turning back at anomalies, or continuing if all seems normal. One mistake sends him to the beginning, making his quest to escape an infinite challenge.

Violence & peril: 2/10
Language: 3/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 1/10
Romance & sensuality: 0/10
Scary moments: 7/10

Heads up

Sustained psychological tension
Repetitive, disorienting environments
Mild jump scares

What it models well

Perseverance
Attention to detail
Problem-solving

Talk about it after

What makes a space feel unsettling?
How do you handle repetitive challenges?
The importance of observing your environment

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Top billed cast

Director: Genki Kawamura • Crew: Genki Kawamura, Kentaro Hirase

Trailers & clips

Director Genki Kawamura Breaks Down THAT Scene & More

Final Trailer [Subtitled]

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Official US Trailer [Subtitled]

Official Trailer [Subtitled]

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
When a rather asthmatic sounding young gent (Kazunari Ninomiya) gets off a subway train, he gets a call from his ex-girfriend telling him that she is in the hospital and that she is pregnant. What is he to do - especially as he has just witnessed a stroppy man on the packed train lose the plot with a mother and her young, screeching, babe-in arms and ignored it?…
CinemaSerf, TMDB Community

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
Exit 8 adapts Kotake Create’s 2023 video game into a psychological loop that traps viewers in the same disorienting corridor as its protagonist, using shifting perspectives and symbolic typography to reflect inner guilt and trauma.…
Alunauwie, TMDB Community