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Letterboxd Video Store’s Launch Lineup Includes One of 2025’s Best — and Hardest to Find — Horror Movies
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Letterboxd Video Store’s Launch Lineup Includes One of 2025’s Best — and Hardest to Find — Horror Movies
This will probably be your first (and maybe only) chance to see one of the best horror movies of 2025.
By Matthew Byrd
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Published on December 10, 2025
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The new Letterboxd Video Store launched today, and its launch lineup includes one of the best horror movies of 2025 that you almost certainly haven’t seen.
I know, I know. Another place online to rent videos? Is that what the world needs right now? That’s certainly debatable, though the Letterboxd Video Store has a few things going for it. Most notably, it’s run by Letterboxd (the website that we’re all trying to get people to talk to us about in real life), which means it’s curated by some of the finest film nerds on the internet. Part of that curation process involves the inclusion of special “shelves”: two, regularly rotating collections of movies largely intended to spotlight underseen films and even films that are otherwise unavailable (or difficult to find) elsewhere.
For instance, the first two Letterboxd Video Store shelves are “Lost and Found” and “Unreleased Gems.” The former features movies that aren’t otherwise available in the regions the Letterboxd Video Store is releasing them, and the latter highlights what are referred to as “underseen underdogs with stellar community ratings.” The movies featured in both include Sore: A Wife From The Future (a romantic twist on the time loop concept from Indonesia), Poison (director Todd Haynes’ shocking sci-fi horror anthology), and Before We Vanish (a subversive take on the alien invasion genre).
To be honest, I can’t vouch for every film in the early Letterboxd Video Store collection, nor can I say you should spend the $3.99 to $19.99 (!) it costs to rent them. However, there is one movie that I must highlight simply because this may be your first and best chance to see it: Director Alex Ullom’s 2025 horror movie It Ends.
It Ends follows a group of friends who get together for what may be the last time before they part ways and enter (relative) adulthood. At one point, they decide to go on a brief road trip to get some food. The trip proves to be anything but brief, though, as they find themselves stuck on what seems to be an infinitely repeating road in the woods. Trapped and seemingly surrounded by forces they can hear just off in the distance, they try to keep it together as they inevitably argue over what (if anything) they can do about their surreal situation.
It Ends is one of the rare pieces of Gen-Z horror media that seems to both speak directly to that generation while tying their anxieties into the worries of previous young adults and the broader supernatural story at play. In other words, it does an incredible job of operating as a clever and unnerving horror film while subtly giving you a lot to chew on in terms of its characters who are quite literally stuck in life and unsure if the road ahead will offer any relief.
It Ends premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest festival, but hasn’t really been made available anywhere else. For that matter, there’s no indication it will be made available anywhere else outside of the Letterboxd Video Store. So, if anything in the above description piqued your interest, and you have the time, money, and desire required to give this new platform a shot, I’d certainly recommend checking it out. [end-mark]
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