TIFF 2025: ‘Exit 8’ Is Liminal Videogame Horror at its Best

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We just got that trailer for the film adaption of Mario Galaxy and my brain is rattling around ideas of how this animated cutie will turn that game into a cinematic narrative. I wondered something similar but different when it came to Five Nights at Freddy’s and I was back in the fray when considering how another relatively simple game would be adapted for the screen, Exit 8 .

Writers and director, Genki Kawamura and Kentaro Hirase, made magic out of a simple game premise by not getting too caught up in the potentially infinite loop. For the uninitiated, the game is simple: make your way through the subway exit. If you spot an anomaly, turn around, if you don’t, keep going. Complete this eig

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