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New Life

Released May 3 1h 25m Horror Mystery & Thriller TRAILER for New Life: Trailer 1 List New Life: Trailer 1 New Life: Trailer 1 2:10 New Life: Teaser Trailer New Life: Teaser Trailer 1:14 View more videos
93% Tomatometer 59 Reviews 71% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. On her tail is Elsa, a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, holes in Elsa's investigation begin to fill with fresh bodies. Soon the pursuit spirals toward its harrowing confrontation between the two women, in search of meaning and redemption, on the razor's edge of catastrophe. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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Breathing New Life to the genre, this excellently acted brooding horror thriller marks a propitious debut for John Rosman.

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Phil Hoad Guardian Amid the dumper-truck of post-Covid lockdown-inspired films, very few take disease and pandemics themselves as their central focus. So John Rosman’s stripped-back but effective debut is a sobering flashback to those incubative early days. Rated: 3/5 May 29, 2024 Full Review Sergio Burstein Los Angeles Times Lovers of hard-core horror with elements of science fiction and allusions to body horror, rejoice. [Full review in Spanish] May 7, 2024 Full Review Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting It’s not just the complexities of its characters that are compelling, but Rosman’s ability to drop narrative bombs that cataclysmically alter the genre and narrative direction. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 10, 2023 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall With slick, visual style, writer-director John Rosman skilfully keeps everything grounded, which makes the bonkers craziness and excellent makeup work that much more effective. Rated: 4/5 Jun 4, 2024 Full Review Terry Sherwood Film Threat New Life entertains with fast-moving shooting action, creepy screaming creatures, ample guts, and moments of profound humanity. Rated: 7/10 May 22, 2024 Full Review Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week While New Life holds few pleasures as it twists and convulses into new genres, it excels at glimpses of terror and jaded job execution. May 22, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Rickey M This movie was so much better than it had any business being. The best advice would be to go into this one with little to no knowledge. Don't read any synopsis, watch a trailer, or read the reviews. Just sit down for under 90 minutes and let them tell this compelling story. Just a well-told, gripping tale. Enjoyed this a lot. Highly recommend! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/13/24 Full Review Kit L This was so close to being a great movie, and is one of those cases where less is more. There should have been no expositions about pharma companies, no tech scenes of computer screens searching conversations and street cameras, no conference calls about ALS, and no gratuitous infected attack scenes to artificially ratchet suspense. If these affectations had been left on the cutting room floor, this would not just have been a good movie; it would have been great. I'm sure the writer/director is well aware of this, but had to pack those components in to get the movie made in the first place. The climax still packs a punch - more so because of the sounds of the wind - as impersonal and amoral as a virus. If the entire movie had stayed true to that theme, it would have been amazing. Sparse. Sharp. Harsh as a blade. No explaining. The audience would have caught up. Still good - but felt like a missed opportunity. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/12/24 Full Review Gabriel W The movie ends in the middle part. After that is just gross makeup and free violence with no story to tell. There is no horror or suspense I this movie. This is a very bad movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/08/24 Full Review Adam M Let me start by saying I don't generally like horror films, at least not in the traditional format, and this film is not your general formatted horror. It blurs the lines of genres likebody horror, thriller, apocalyptic, drama and romance. It's so refreshing to see an original film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/04/24 Full Review Audience Member It's about the time when it left to the other end but it never had completed the start so when they finished it never came back to where it started and then it unfolded into something that never ended. I'm confused by the first 10 minutes. I thought it was intense based on the end going back to the beginning to the middle Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review Neil G I think this movie is really gross, I give it a gross rating lower than the x rated version of Caligula!!! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. On her tail is Elsa, a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, holes in Elsa's investigation begin to fill with fresh bodies. Soon the pursuit spirals toward its harrowing confrontation between the two women, in search of meaning and redemption, on the razor's edge of catastrophe.
Director
John Rosman
Producer
Mike Marchlewski, T. Justin Ross
Screenwriter
John Rosman
Distributor
Brainstorm Media
Production Co
American Storyworks, Great Lakes Vacuum Supplies Unlimited
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 3, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 3, 2024
Runtime
1h 25m
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