It Ends Uses a Simple Story to Ask Big Existential Questions

'It Ends': How a Gen Z Filmmaker Made One of the Year's Best Movies With $150,000 and a Car

A car. Four actors. An endless road. These essential components make up the majority of Gen Z filmmaker Alex Ullom’s debut feature, “It Ends.” The film, which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2025, follows a group of four friends who, fresh out of college and on the precipice of adulthood, find themselves stuck on a purgatorial road that never ends (likewise, they will never starve, need sleep or run out of gas). With a monotonous infini…

Movie Review | Gen Z gets a moody, existential horror in ‘It Ends’

Every generation deserves its own postgrad malaise movie. Not every attempt is going to be The Graduate or Frances Ha but, even when they’re mediocre, they’re also often a pure expression from a young filmmaker about what their contemporaries are feeling at that exact moment.

Is ‘It Ends’ the Next Big Gen-Z Horror Hit?

In a perfect world, Alex Ullom's feature debut — about an infinite road trip to nowhere — would indeed be the beginning of a long, brilliant career.

'It Ends' review: Gen Z's disillusionment is distilled in a mind-snapping road trip thriller

Alexander Ullom's directorial debut is here to mess you up.

It Ends Uses a Simple Story to Ask Big Existential Questions

Movies & TV movie reviews It Ends Uses a Simple Story to Ask Big Existential Questions Another hopeful in the Zoomer horror wave By Reuben Baron | Published on August 21, 2026 Credit: Growing Up Dead Films / Neon Comment 0 Share New Share It Ends Uses a Simple Story to Ask Big Existential Questions” target=”_blank” title=”Pinterest”> Credit: Growing Up Dead Films / Neon It’s tempting to loop Alexander Ullom’s It Ends, about a group of frie…

It Ends Review: An Endless Road Trip That Evolves Into An Existential Nightmare

Alexander Ullom's feature directorial debut, It Ends, is a strong cap to a powerhouse summer for first-time horror filmmakers. Here's our review.