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\nAlexander Ullom is dog-tired.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reason why the 28-year-old filmmaker looks \u201clike a fuckin\u2019 mess,\u201d as he puts it, is because he wrapped principal photography on his sophomore movie, \u201c4 x 4: The Event\u201d \u2014 which he describes as \u201cballs-to-the-wall gore and violence\u201d \u2014 two days ago, jetted to Los Angeles and was parachuted into a press day for his debut feature, \u201cIt Ends.\u201d And what a stunning debut it is.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt Ends,\u201d out in theaters Aug. 21, follows three recent college graduates \u2014 James (Phinehas Yoon), Day (Akira Jackson) and Fisher (Noah Toth) \u2014 who reunite with their buddy Tyler (Mitchell Cole), a military man, and embark on a late-night drive in his Jeep in search of grub. When the road is suddenly blocked by a copse of trees, the group believes they may have taken a wrong turn, prompting Tyler to exit the vehicle and investigate, thereby attracting a ferocious mob of people who attack the car, mangling Fisher\u2019s arm in the process. The quartet manages to escape by the skin of their teeth only to realize that they may be, in true Talking Heads fashion, on a road to nowhere. Have they entered another realm? Or are they dead and this is some cruel form of purgatory? Ullom, exhibiting directorial prowess far beyond his years, keeps audiences on the edge of their seat as these youngsters barrel down a seemingly endless road.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Ullom\u2019s film\u2019s journey to theaters was a labyrinthine one as well. After receiving critical raves following its SXSW premiere in March of 2025, the film failed to attract any distributors and was, according to Ullom, \u201cdead in the water.\u201d He was ready to throw in the towel and upload it to YouTube when a chance encounter with filmmaker and movie influencer Nicolas Curcio led to him discussing it online, which was seen by the CEO of Letterboxd, who swooped in and agreed to showcase it as one of the first releases in their Letterboxd Video Store for undistributed movies, which then<\/em> caught the eye of Neon, who picked it up and were so impressed by Ullom and his first feature, which was shot for only $80,000, that they also agreed to distribute his next film, \u201c4 x 4: The Event,\u201d billed as \u201c\u2018Battle Royale\u2019 meets \u2018Saw\u2019 meets \u2018Climax.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo promote \u201cIt Ends,\u201d Neon has hatched an Endless Screening challenge where four-person teams compete in a 36-hour marathon screening of the film at NYC\u2019s Metro Private Cinema \u2014 so about 25 consecutive showings of the movie \u2014 to be the \u201cLast Person Standing.\u201d The rules dictate that \u201ceach group member will receive 25 cents for every minute they remain in the competition, up to $540 a person,\u201d and \u201cif every member of the group makes it through the entire 36-hour marathon, each wins an additional $500.\u201d Participants also get \u201ca $250 theater credit toward concessions during the marathon (excluding alcohol)\u201d and there are \u201cdesignated breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUllom spoke with Variety<\/em> about his promising first film, the new crop of young horror filmmakers he\u2019s now a part of, including Curry Barker (\u201cObsession\u201d) and Kane Parsons (\u201cBackrooms\u201d), and much more.<\/p>\n

\nHow are you doing?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tFirst press day, so, you know, I\u2019m getting used to it! I\u2019m drinking water.<\/p>\n

\nWas \u201cIt Ends\u201d inspired by the pandemic?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI think it came from two different places. I was 21 years old when I started writing it [in late 2019], and I was articulating things from a much more physiological place and my own rough transition to adulthood mental health-wise. I was really going through it at the time and thinking, \u201cIs this the rest of adulthood?\u201d But as I got older, I realized there are more downtrodden effects from structural issues \u2014 the fact that the tentpoles of normal adult structure had disappeared and it\u2019s not going to be buying a house, the nuclear family or religion, all these things that used to be the destination for a young person. I was feeling aimless and lost and felt, \u201cThis might just be what the rest of it is like.\u201d Luckily, it was not. Also, I was in a lot of the \u201cBackrooms\u201d threads very early on. I wish I had a less pretentious reason for, \u201cWhy an endless road and why a car?\u201d but it just popped in [my head] one day, and the theme came from what I was going through.<\/p>\n

\nThe film reminded me a lot of that oner from \u201cChildren of Men\u201d where the car is driving through the woods and then gets bombarded by people in every direction. Were you at least subconsciously inspired by that?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tSubconsciously like I didn\u2019t fully rip it off? I love that scene and love that movie!<\/p>\n

\nCritics have pointed to Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s play \u201cNo Exit\u201d as an inspiration, but was that actually<\/em> an inspiration for you?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tWhich is totally fine! I didn\u2019t even know what that was at the time, but I\u2019m more than grateful that anyone is comparing it to anything. I was essentially ready to upload the film on YouTube.<\/p>\n

\nWas that before it premiered at SXSW or after?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tAfter. We were fully dead in the water and this whole generational-shift thing that\u2019s happening right now was not <\/em>happening yet. We were still in the early days in this weird transitional period where nothing was selling out of festivals. We had no famous people and a tone shift \u2014 the \u201cLinklater made a horror movie\u201d that I\u2019ve always pitched it as. I had a meeting on the Universal lot where they were like, \u201cNice movie but we\u2019re obviously not fuckin\u2019 buying it,\u201d and on the way out they were having a press event for \u201cJurassic World Rebirth.\u201d There was a fence between me and all these famous movie influencers and I thought, \u201cIf I could just get them the movie!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI called my manager and asked, \u201cIf I get kicked off the Universal lot is that for your whole career?\u201d And he said, \u201cWhatever the fuck you\u2019re about to do just don\u2019t tell me.\u201d I hopped the fence and security swarmed me, but I said I was an influencer and they brought me into the party, gave me free \u201cJurassic\u201d merch, and I was able to talk to Nick Curcio and be like, \u201cThank you for telling the kids about movies, I have this movie\u2026\u201d and he went, \u201cWhere is it? What happened? You got good reviews out of SXSW.\u201d And I said, \u201cWe got nothing.\u201d He posted about it and there was this outpouring of love from the online horror community. The Letterboxd CEO saw that and offered us a Letterboxd Video Store spot.<\/p>\n

\nIt holds the distinction of being one of the first films to ever be released on Letterboxd Video Store.<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tAnd maybe one of the first films to go to streaming, get pirated first and then go to theaters? We\u2019ll see how that affects things!<\/p>\n

\nYou went through your own \u201cIt Ends\u201d-style journey getting this movie into theaters. How did it feel when Neon finally picked it up?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tThe road has still not ended because here I am talking about it! It was awesome when they came on. Letterboxd lined up perfectly with it making sense in Neon\u2019s slate, so I\u2019m very grateful to anyone watching this movie at all because it makes no sense to me.<\/p>\n

\nDid Neon sign you to a multi-picture deal? Because your next film, \u201c4 x 4: The Event\u201d is also being distributed by Neon.<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tNo, they took a shot on \u201cIt Ends\u201d and that meant a lot to me. I had a bunch of crazy contractual stuff where I wanted Mitchell Cole, who plays Tyler in \u201cIt Ends,\u201d to be in it and I wanted to edit it, so it kind of just happened.<\/p>\n

\nAs a part-Asian guy like yourself, I appreciated that the Asian guy wasn\u2019t offed early on because that happens all too often. I\u2019m reminded of Alex Garland\u2019s \u201cCivil War,\u201d where you see the two Asian guys hanging out of the car acting like idiots as it swerves through the woods and then two seconds later, they\u2019re being mowed down by Jesse Plemons. \u00a0<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tOh, let\u2019s go! I didn\u2019t want to ask. I wasn\u2019t doing it for any sort of agenda or anything, but I wanted to have an Asian kid. He\u2019s me. He\u2019s the more attractive version of me and my self-insert, and it\u2019s nice that he\u2019s not having to talk about his diaspora or anything and it\u2019s just him being in the movie. And he fuckin\u2019 lasts, and maybe that\u2019s more of a model-minority thing but he was definitely built for capitalism. He was locked in to begin with.<\/p>\n

\nHow many days was \u201cIt Ends\u201d shot in and where did you shoot it?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tPrincipal photography was 28 days but we re-shot huge swaths of the movie two times and a lot of it was in Florida where I grew up. The parks that we shot in have asked us to stop referencing them in press because kids were apparently going there and drag racing on the endless road, which is cool, but yeah, in Florida, basically.<\/p>\n

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\nKids: Don\u2019t drag race on the endless road. I read that \u201cIt Ends\u201d was made for around $50,000. Is that accurate?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m allowed to talk about it or not \u2014 maybe I should ask Neon\u2026 Here\u2019s what I\u2019ll say: Our full production budget was $80,000 after all three rounds of filming, and that\u2019s before post-production. It was originally $30,000, and then we re-shot and it was $50,000 and then more.<\/p>\n

\nThe four young actors in \u201cIt Ends\u201d are excellent. Where did you find them?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tThe only<\/em> reason that this movie works is because of the cast. Every single one of them is so specifically talented it\u2019s incredible. I posted on Instagram and said, \u201cWho wants to be in a movie?\u201d An open casting call. Noah [Toth] I had auditioned for one of my student films and Mitch [Cole] was literally an HVAC repair guy in the panhandle of Florida, and they all punched up my dialogue, made it way better than what was written and I got very lucky to find all four of them.<\/p>\n

\nDid you use only one Jeep for filming?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tWe had one Jeep for production and then one shell of a Jeep that we cut in half to film on a stage. And that one Jeep got fuckin\u2019 gnarly. Props to the actors for sitting in that thing for so long! Florida summertime shooting is crazy. That\u2019s when the equipment was available, but dude\u2026 it was hot.<\/p>\n

\nAre you in LA now?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI\u2019m in LA and in my own place, which is awesome.<\/p>\n

\nDid you get that with the money from \u201cIt Ends\u201d selling to Neon?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tNo, it was the next movie. But for the last two-and-a-half years I lived in a walk-in closet \u2014 a one-bedroom apartment in LA \u2014 with two crew members and one cast member. We were all struggling while we were making this thing.<\/p>\n

\nI\u2019ve gotta ask you about this 36-hour marathon screening challenge of \u201cIt Ends\u201d in NYC, which will be around 25 consecutive showings of the movie. Was this your idea or what? And what do you think about it?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tIt was a Neon idea. I think that I would hate any fuckin\u2019 movie that I would watch 25 times. I think the prize money probably could have been higher for that level of psychological torment, but studios love doing that. \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d had a [treadmill] screening. I hope there\u2019s a bathroom in there that people can go to. Are they allowed to sleep? I would just sleep. Look, whatever\u2019s going to get people in the theaters, I will advocate for. It\u2019s still absurd to me that this is playing in a theater!<\/p>\n

\nAre they dead the whole time or have entered some other realm?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tCome on, man! I can\u2019t tell you that. But I know exactly how it is and how it works.<\/p>\n

\nI had to ask! So you\u2019re 28 now?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI am actually old. I\u2019m 28 now. Isn\u2019t that crazy?<\/p>\n

\nTwenty-eight is not old! You\u2019re only old compared to Kane Parsons.<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tKane\u2019s a good friend of mine and every time I speak to him, I\u2019m like, \u201cHoly fuck, I\u2019m old!\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWhen did you start making films?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI had always done it and never really saw it as a career path \u2014 I actually still don\u2019t \u2014 but it was probably something horrible with my action figures. I found my appreciation for it in high school when I made these obnoxious morning-show videos where I was doing sketches that would screen after the morning announcements. I had an \u201cEnder\u2019s Game\u201d version of film school where I would screen a morning-show video and either be met with love and admiration by my peers or walk out and get relentlessly bullied for the rest of the day. So, if I wanted to throw a video up, I had to lock in.<\/p>\n

\nHow did you gain the confidence to tackle your first feature?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI think I was just a delusional kid that never thought he couldn\u2019t do that because he saw \u201cSlacker\u201d and said, \u201cWell, I just need four faces.\u201d That\u2019s probably why I had to reshoot it two times because I probably should have been a little less<\/em> confident!<\/p>\n

\nYour next film, \u201c4 x 4: An Event\u201d just got announced and it\u2019s described as, \u201c\u2018Battle Royale\u2019 meets \u2018Saw\u2019 meets \u2018Climax.\u2019\u201d The logline Neon gave reads it \u201cfollows eight contestants as they enter an illegal sensory-assault livestream where they must kill or be killed using only what they can order online.\u201d Can you tell me anything more about that?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tIf \u201cIt Ends\u201d is dealing with minimalism and ennui then this film is the complete opposite where it\u2019s balls-to-the-wall gore and violence and a visual stimuli overload to the point where there might need to be a disclaimer in the theater for the level of visual intensity I want to go for. I want to emulate what internet psychosis feels like, so it\u2019s very different. And I\u2019m making it using every filmmaking lesson I learned on \u201cIt Ends.\u201d The reason I look like a fuckin\u2019 mess is because we wrapped two days ago and I just flew in to LA. I\u2019ll now be in a black box editing it for the next three months, but I love the editing process. And the production on \u201c4 x 4\u201d was a lot easier on me where I didn\u2019t have to wrap the grip truck and got to focus a lot more and I got to go crazy with the camera. It\u2019ll be fun.<\/p>\n

\nDo you have a project you want to tackle after \u201c4 x 4?\u201d<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tI have studio ambitions and I believe the theatrical experience is the last religious experience of my generation and I love theaters and will always make movies for that, but right now I want to get a DV cam and two actors and do some shit on the street or something small. Larger-scale production is more about prepping and execution, and I would like one where there isn\u2019t a time limit. Maybe YouTube is the place for that. But I have massivefilms that I want to make as well.<\/p>\n

\nLike what?<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s something that I\u2019d like to actually do\u2026 I would love to do a \u201cDeer Hunter\u201d in space with a certain specific franchise \u2014 not \u201cStar Wars.\u201d Essentially, Space Vietnam. I have very specific things that I want to speak to my generation about and the thing I really love watching is young people talking onscreen. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\nAnd now there\u2019s a whole crop of young filmmakers coming up in horror with people like you, Curry Barker and Kane Parsons.<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s weird because \u201cIt Ends\u201d wasn\u2019t made for a marketplace whereas with \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms,\u201d Curry and Kane honed their craft for years on YouTube. Curry\u2019s first movie, \u201cMilk & Serial,\u201d is more comparable to what \u201cIt Ends\u201d is for me in that it\u2019s something I scrapped along with for six years. To speak to the larger movement that\u2019s happening right now, yeah, I would love another New Hollywood movement. The model that has worked for a long time doesn\u2019t work anymore and there are certain sensibilities and cultural tastes that you can\u2019t manufacture without letting the kids play. It would be really fucking awesome if this trend continues.<\/p>\n

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