This October, CineBrividi returns to Centro Pecci Cinema with horror classics, new discoveries and filmmaker Q&As. The programme includes Alex Ullom’s It Ends, a nightmare on an endless highway where horror meets the anxieties of a generation.
A group of friends out late at night looking for food finds themselves trapped on an endless highway, with otherworldly horrors lurking all around. Forced to stay inside their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt an escape.
The film will also screen as part of the Halloween marathon on 31 October.
On Saturday 31 October, CineBrividi celebrates Halloween with a film marathon at Centro Pecci Cinema, from the afternoon until late into the night. The programme begins at 4:30 pm with the endless highway of It Ends, followed at 6:30 pm by the music and irreverence of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. At 9:00 pm, Na Hong-jin’s Hope receives its Italian premiere, while at 11:55 pm, Wes Craven’s Scream rounds off the night by playing with the rules of horror cinema. All films are screened in their original language with Italian subtitles.
"Let’s all make a note of this name: Alexander Ullom. A 27-year-old American of mixed heritage (Caucasian, Jamaican, and Asian), with the now-standard background of amateur filmmaking—first at home, then online—Ullom made his debut with a horror film titled It Ends. It toured the festival circuit before enjoying a brief streaming run on Letterboxd, followed by a theatrical release in the US courtesy of NEON, starting August 21st. American critics have gone wild for it, and for once, they are absolutely right: It Ends is a film of almost Carpenter-esque minimalism. While shifting from horror into other genres, it delivers a precise, sharp, and—for once—refreshingly un-self-indulgent and un-self-pitying portrait of the existential anxiety that seems to define Gen Z—and, by now, perhaps not just them." (Federico Gironi)
