The Endless

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The Endless

2018

1h 51m

Horror

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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91%

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127 Reviews

67%

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2,500+ Ratings

Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't find as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

Critics Consensus

The Endless benefits from its grounded approach to an increasingly bizarre story, elevated by believable performances by filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

03/05/2020

Unfortunately the filmmakers introduce a sci-fi element in the second half that deflates much of the interpersonal tension and shifts the focus from the subtleties of mind control to the vagaries of time and space.

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

12/31/2018

3.5/4

The biggest lesson of The Endless is how we can allow our lives to loop around in one crappy cycle until we cop out.

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Kambole Campbell

One Room With A View

08/25/2018

2/5

Despite an imaginative concept, the narrative feels surprisingly bland, even when the pieces begin to fall into place - and when there's no quick punchline to fall back on, the film suffers.

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Ankit Ojha

Cinema Elite

07/09/2024

4.5/5

In trademark Benson-Moorhead fashion, the film is a genre-fluid experience that boldly chooses not to be bound by horror restrictions, instead allowing its viewers to relate to the emotion that hits home the hardest.

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Alachia Queen

Alachia Queen

05/06/2022

A

This independent film is a unique balance between Lovecraftian world building, the intimacies of family dynamics, and the horrors of the personal limitations.

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

04/14/2021

6/10

I felt like it was very confusing about the whole history behind the boys... but I do feel like there is some great production value in there.

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ben F

@BenFranz 5d

I watched this because of the RT score of 91% disregarding the 3.6/5 score it had on the streaming service. I was so peed off at the end of this piece of garbage movie, i joined RT to submit a review. What a waste of time. Are bots submitting reviews now?

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Justin H

@UntakenUsername Apr 5

Crisp, original supernatural thriller. One of a kind.

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Tyler N

@RT33166214 Apr 4

It was just entertaining enough to keep me watching but I didn’t find it highly engaging or anything like that. The best actor was the little angry guy that didn’t talk a first and then spoke a lot outside of his shed. Some of this story barely added up, but without giving anything away, the way it played out wasn’t really plausible in my opinion. I guess a good job for a low budget but I wouldn’t recommend spending time on it.

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Oscar E.

@oscarpac Apr 2

I don’t know what to think about this movie. It was interesting and then I was lost. And then I started to understand. And then it ends. The characters aren’t really likable. The movie is so long with nothing really happening.

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Sierra M

@Possumqween Mar 30

This is one of my favorite horror films ever.

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Ben S

@RT32152838 Mar 15

From the start this film feels like a perfectly middling undergrad class project with clumsily written exposition and try-hard shot composition (there's one particular pan -> dolly creep that absolutely ruins any immersion). The writing continues to be a bit of an afterthought, embracing worn out cliches like "total jibberish whiteboard formula ending in '?' " and just plain lazy dialogue that is at times excessive, in others entirely too little, often just bizarrely timed (e.g. arguing about who gets to drive to escape the scary monster). Plotwise the time loops were a decent concept, but the brother relationship drama was pretty meh. Noticed that the leads' character names are the same as the actors, which kinda reflects the difficulty in the on-screen relationship (I think they're likely pals from outside, hence difficulty getting into the characters). And, like this review post, this movie was FAR too long. Maybe a fun bad movie to watch high. I won't find out.

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Synopsis

Two brothers receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't find as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

Director: Justin Benson
Producer: David Lawson Jr., Thomas R. Burke, Leal Naim
Distributor: Well Go USA
Production Co: Love & Death Productions (LDP), Snowfort Pictures, Pfaff & Pfaff Productions, Moorhead & Benson
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 6, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 26, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $270.6K
Runtime: 1h 51m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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