The Endless - Movie Reviews (2024)

In trademark Benson-Moorhead fashion, the film is a genre-fluid experience that boldly chooses not to be bound by horror restrictions, instead allowing its viewers to relate to the emotion that hits home the hardest.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

This independent film is a unique balance between Lovecraftian world building, the intimacies of family dynamics, and the horrors of the personal limitations.

Full Review | Original Score: A | May 6, 2022

I felt like it was very confusing about the whole history behind the boys... but I do feel like there is some great production value in there.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 14, 2021

...the thin premise is, at 111 minutes, consistently stretched to its breaking point.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2021

Two brothers pay a visit to the "UFO death cult" they left ten years earlier, and have their eyes opened in ways they could not have expected. Starring and directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, The Endless screams cult potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The Endless doesn't scream at the top of its lungs. Instead, it leaves you asking, "Did I just see what I thought I saw?"

Full Review | Jul 24, 2020

A puzzle to unravel, a maze to solve, it presents a smart, satisfying mind-bender of a sci-fi/horror hybrid.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2020

The Endless is disturbing at times, comforting, darkly funny and even confounding, and that's all part of the ride to which you commit.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2020

The Endless is a film that takes its time to get to the point, but makes sense the more it advances while also adding layers to its story.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2020

Unfortunately the filmmakers introduce a sci-fi element in the second half that deflates much of the interpersonal tension and shifts the focus from the subtleties of mind control to the vagaries of time and space.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2020

Moorhead and Benson's plot gets bogged down in overly mannered explanations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 9, 2019

The Endless delves into this unknown and seemingly unexplainable phenomenon and successfully allows the audience to wrap their head around something repetitiously terrifying.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2019

The Endless ends up going more "Twilight Zone" than Heaven's Gate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2019

A bold attempt to tell a familiar tale in a new way, however a loose hold on tone and execution mar what could have been a cult favourite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2019

The story works as an allegory for how people get stuck in and then, if they're lucky, escape the repetitive, often abusive cycles in their lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2019

The Endless will haunt you, even if it doesn't try to frighten you outright.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2019

... an enjoyable ride with effectively creepy imagery, innovative scares, and intriguing mystery.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2019

This is a low-fi, buttoned-down, and intensely creepy film that will linger on your mind for months to come.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2019

... its turnarounds were more like dumbly existential and painfully dragging than anything else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2019

The biggest lesson of The Endless is how we can allow our lives to loop around in one crappy cycle until we cop out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 31, 2018