I know it’s an odd thing to say but I’m starting to appreciate what filmmakers do with their end credits sequences. Now, it’s always interesting when the latest comedy shows the blooper reel during the end credits. But also when filmmakers do something artistic with the end credits instead of scrolling white text on a black background (like what was done with Exit 8) shows that the filmmakers were paying attention to the overall movie watching experience. To those people who might not watch that many foreign movies, you really should take the opportunity to watch foreign movie adaptations of comic books or video games because they a completely different tone to anything delivered by Marvel or DC and when it comes to movie video game adaptations western directors are yet to deliver a decent movie.

I went into this completely unfamiliar with Genki Kawamura’s work as a director, though it should be noted Exit 8 is the second feature length movie that he’s directed. Personally I think I’m starting to enjoy psychological horror movies more then the garden variety slasher movies. Does anyone have any suggestions of good psychological horror movies (apart from Exit 8) please tell me about them. I enjoyed Kazunari Ninomiya’s performance (I had previously seen him in the Giants movies and the live action Assassination Classroom movie) Apparently Naru Asanuma who played the boy was in his first film role. Considering that the was adapted from a video game I was a little disappointed that the movie switched from a first person perspective after it’s opening sequence. Exit 8 clocks in at around 90 minutes (possibly the perfect length for most movies) however, I can see that might not be everyone’s cup of tea, because the corridor scenes do come of as being a little repetitive in places. That being said I did catch myself being so engrossed in the world of the movie that I caught myself playing along and checking everything off in the search for anomalies.