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“It Ends” Hits 95% Rotten Tomatoes, Tops Horror 2026

8/21/2026

Summary

Ullom Delivers Horror

U.S. audiences watch It Ends, a low-budget horror film directed by Alexander Ullom.
The story follows four friends trapped on an endless forest road.
Characters find they never need gas, food, or sleep.
It Ends earned a 95% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, tying for 2026’s top horror rating.
The Hollywood Reporter praises Ullom’s directorial craft for delivering a high-concept threat that defies easy explanation.

Summary

Ullom Battles Depression

Director Alexander Ullom disclosed battling dissociative depression while creating It Ends.
The film depicts Day, a recent graphic-design graduate’s suicide attempt and Fisher’s panic attacks.
James obsessively solves an endless road puzzle reflecting dread of a predetermined six-figure future.
Veteran Tyler ends his relationship after a trivial pumpkin-patch outing showing reluctance toward intimacy.
Ullom frames GPS guidance as a metaphor for millennials’ loss of agency in a digitized economy.

History

Historical Context

When Warner Bros. released The Matrix on March 31 1999, the Wachowski-directed sci-fi action film earned about $463 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards. Its bullet-time visuals, cyber-punk narrative and red-pill symbolism reshaped Hollywood action and sparked a wave of high-concept indie projects that examine technology-driven dread. The pattern continues, as 2026 horror releases reference Matrix’s digital-reality motif to explore modern tech anxieties.

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Ullom Delivers Horror

U.S. audiences watch It Ends, a low-budget horror film directed by Alexander Ullom.
The story follows four friends trapped on an endless forest road.
Characters find they never need gas, food, or sleep.
It Ends earned a 95% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, tying for 2026’s top horror rating.
The Hollywood Reporter praises Ullom’s directorial craft for delivering a high-concept threat that defies easy explanation.

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