LOS ANGELES, April 8 (UPI) -- The video game Exit 8 is compatible with a single location horror movie. Genki Kawamura's film adaptation, in theaters Friday, mines a movie's worth of frights and twists out of a single hallway.
A Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya) exits his train and answers a call from his ex-girlfriend (Nana Komatsu), who just took a positive pregnancy test. The call cuts out and the Lost Man finds himself wandering an infinite loop of hallway.
He's not alone. A Walking Man (Yamato Kochi) completes a loop every time the hallway resets. When the Lost Man stops him, the Walking Man's overexaggerated grin is creepy.
A child (Naru Asanuma) also appears periodically, but that's it: three characters in a hallway and a woman's voice on the phone.
The Lost Man's exit from the train until he enters the hall is filmed from his point of view, mimicking a player in a video game. Fortunately, the rest of the film takes an objective perspective on the actors, preserving the first-person effect in its single moment.
