There, she meets four other stranded travelers-Ash ( Danny Ramirez), Lars ( David Rysdahl), Ed ( Dennis Haysbert), and Sandi ( Dale Dickey). As he’s traveling through the treacherous Utah mountains, she hits a blizzard, forcing her off the road and into a rest stop to wait it out. She flees the rehab facility she’s in-a detail that adds to her vulnerability and sense of overall panic-to try and drive to get to her mother, despite the protestations of her sister. A woman named Darby Thorne ( Havana Rose Liu) gets a call that her mother is in the hospital.

It has the kind of beautifully simple set-up that this fan of Hitchcock and Christie loves. If you’re a fan of those ‘00s standalone thrillers, check out 'No Exit' before it gets crushed in the next wave of streaming content.ĭamien Power directs this adaptation of a thriller novel of the same name by Taylor Adams. 'No Exit' is imperfect and struggles to get going, but it's a grisly piece of work that earns your suspension of disbelief. It reminded me a great deal of 2003’s “ Identity,” another single-setting thriller with a modest budget that made $90 million in a very different era, or the films that typically starred Angelina Jolie or Ashley Judd based on books that everyone read on a beach a few years earlier. Gone are the days when one could stumble into something like “No Exit” on a rainy day without really knowing what it’s about, startled by its twists and turns. So Fox changing their mind after the Disney merger and pushing this to their streaming service makes sense.

The market has pushed this kind of thriller out, moving them to streamers like Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. It’s got a low budget and only a couple familiar faces. See our wiki for past AMAs.It’s interesting that “No Exit,” premiering today on Hulu, was once scheduled for a theatrical release by Fox because it feels like the kind of thing that doesn’t play in multiplexes anymore. If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale.

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