Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:48 this Thursday (GMT):

Hey, neat! They're making a movie based on "Exit 8".

"Exit 8", if you don't remember, was an Indie game that released
several years ago. It was extremely short (and has since been emulated
by other games), with a simple mechanic of going into a hallway and if
you see any anomalies, backing out (if no anomalies, continue forward
to the next hallway). Repeat 8 times and you make it to the exit.
While this description sounds tedious and uninteresting, the
atmosphere of the game (think spooky back-rooms) and the inventiveness
of some of the anomalies made it an enjoyable experience. My biggest
problem with the game was its price; it was $5USD for a game that
could literally be finished in ten minutes (and you could see
everything the game had to offer in about 30 minutes intensive play).

Still, the concept was neat and the surreal setting was great. It's
not entirely clear, though, how the film producers will extend such a
short game into a full length movie (I've read that some of the
'anomalies' the protagonist encounters will be people who mislead him,
and he doesn't know about the supernatural aspect of the corridors
from the start. Still, it all seems fairly thin). Nonetheless, I'm
interested to see how they manage.

The film is being produced by Toho Pictures (probably better known for
its Godzilla flicks) and will only have limited released in Japan (no surprise, as its a Japanese game set in a Japanese metro). Hopefully
it will be made available with translated subtitles for us stupid
gaijin. I'll be sure to pick it up if that's the case.

Sounds interesting, but I don't have much hope it will be very good.
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 00:14 this Sunday (GMT):

On Thu, 08 May 2025 13:48:27 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, neat! They're making a movie based on "Exit 8".

There's now a trailer for the movie. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoeWQjn0wF8

It looks... well, I don't want to outright say 'not good', because I
think it may have its moments. The problem is that it's a movie based
on a game that can literally be finished in three or four minutes, and
you can tell that they've stretched the material incredibly trying to
get some drama out of it. I think the core idea is actually good
fodder for a film, but you can't simply retell the game; you have to
add to it, and unfortunately the film-makers seemed to be afraid to
stray too far (or, you know, at all) from the source material. The
trailer has a few moments where you can feel the weirdness factor
seeping through, but even for the 90 second trailer it's already
stretched thin. There's only so much you can stare at that guy's
gawping face and not start to find it tiresome.

Disappointing, but not entirely surprising. I still recommend the
game, though... if you can get /really/ cheap (or better yet, free).
It's a neat concept very well executed, but for the amount of game you
get even the current price of $4USD is waaaay too much.

If it was a short film (and was subtitled in English), I'd absolutely
watch it.
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