Road horror film It Ends is out now in theatres and brings alive the terrifying experience of four friends on a late night drive. 
New college graduates James (Phinehas Yoon), Tyler (Mitchell Cole), Fisher (Noah Toth) and Day (Akira Jackson) embark on an adventure that spirals out of control when they turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by cosmic forces beyond their understanding. 
Any time they pause, they have only 90 seconds before hordes of screaming people swarm and attack them.
In an interview, director Alex Ullom talked about his inspiration for the film and what led him to tackle the themes of fear of eternity.
“I think for people my age, our relationship with infiniteness and liminality stems from the fact that we don’t really have a destination to ‘arrive at’ anymore,” the 27-year-old said.
“There’s a movement away from any sort of interconnected moral system in our generation that there might have been in the past. The tent poles of structure that used to hold up society, whether it was having a family or buying a house, all of those structures have kind of dissolved, and in their place is kind of nothing,” he added.
It Ends marks the creative talent’s debut project, which he stared working on five years ago. After filming its first version in 2022, he brought a rough cut to some early investors and asked for the cash to reshoot most of the movie.
The film had a festival premiere at the South by Southwest Festival last year and later became available as a digital rental for a limited time on the newly introduced Letterboxd Video Store service.
It was then acquired by independent film production and distribution company Neon, resulting in a US-wide theatrical release.
The critically praised film scored 92 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.