Review: 'Exit 8' Offers Disquieting Psychological Mystery

Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

A commuter’s entrapment provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based A glitch in the matrix, a rip in existence’s fragile fabric, and suddenly everything we knew about the world is snuffed out … or perhaps revealed to us for the first time. We see its arbitrariness, its cruelty, its vast indifference to the lab rats scurrying around frantically within it, heading for a death they cannot imagine. Genki Kawamura’s psycholog...

By Peter Bradshaw