Letterboxd is launching a digital film rental platform, dubbed Letterboxd Video Store, this Wednesday, December 10.
Among its initial offerings will be the genre-bending horror film It Ends, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year and went on to win Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
It follows four recent college grads on a late-night food run who become trapped on an infinite highway with otherworldly terrors lurking beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt escape.
Writer-director Alex Ullom makes his feature debut on the project, which stars Mitchell Cole, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Phinehas Yoon.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of SXSW, “It Ends captures a universal fear, that anxiety-inducing transition into full-blown adulthood where we’re all expected to become responsible contributors to society. It’s a lot of pressure with no clear guide. As such, it runs through every emotion that comes with that journey.”
The Letterboxd Video Store launch films will cost $3.99 to $19.99 to for a 48-hour rental.
Other titles debuting on the service’s “Unreleased Gems” self include Yandy Laurens’ time-loop sci-fi romance Sore: A Wife from the Future, Anurag Kashyap’s neo-noir thriller Kennedy, and Diego Céspedes’ queer drama The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.
Meanwhile, the “Lost & Found” shelf will feature Mike de Leon’s 1981 psychological horror film Kisapmata, Lau Kar-Leung’s 1988 action comedy Tiger on the Beat, Todd Haynes’ 1991 sci-fi horror film Poison, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2017 science fiction film Before We Vanish, and Elia Suleiman’s 2019 comedy-drama It Must Be Heaven.
Letterboxd Rental Store will be available in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, and Cyprus.
Rented titles can be viewed on connected TV devices via Apple TV 4K, Apple AirPlay, and Google Chromecast, as well as on the web and iOS and Android mobile devices.
