Buzzy Horror Flick “It Ends” Finally Gets Theatrical Release Date

After a long festival run and solid reviews, the existential horror flick It Ends is finally coming to theaters.

Throughout 2025, the debut feature from Alex Ullom played the festival circuit hard, first premiering at SXSW in March. It Ends then continued to play at festivals around the world, including Chicago, Sydney, and Fantasia Fest. And last December it was part of the launch of the Letterboxd Video Store, a new digital storefront for indie cinema. And now, after the incredible year horror has had, Neon will unleash it in theaters to scare up some dough.

The film follows a group of recent grads, headed out for one final night of fun. But the road to get to their destination has lots of metaphorical twists and turns, and will almost certainly turn deadly. The low-budget feature earned plenty of good notices during its many stops and picked up some fans who checked it out on Letterboxd, where it currently has a very respectable 3.4 out of 5.

Fans wanting to get their own taste of the craze won't have to wait long. It Ends arrives in theaters on August 21.

About Kip Mooney

Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.