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Ash



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 1h 35m
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Plot Summary: A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Arthouse sci-fi horror! Style galore, well-integrated FX work, plenty of gore, and the fractured plot of an unreliable narrator. Good times!


Outside Reviews:

Zachary Lee
3 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

"Ash" may not reinvent the sci-fi horror genre, but Flying Lotus knows when to subvert tropes and when to lean into them. When it's all executed with as controlled a precision as we see here, it's nothing less than thrilling. It's a B-movie operating at the highest levels of craftsmanship, intrigue, and performance. Sometimes it's just fun to watch someone know and deliver exactly what they want to give you, and do so with flying colors—bisexual lighting and all.


Jacob Oller
Grade: C - Originality turns to Ash in gory, trippy collage of sci-fi influences

Flying Lotus, whatever his shortcomings as a director, certainly has taste. Even in the musician-filmmaker's first feature, the Adult Swim-like anthology Kuso, he attracted an army of talent ranging from Silent Hill's Akira Yamaoka to Salad Fingers' David Firth. His second film, the slight sci-fi horror Ash, continues to court the late-night crowd, but with its influences, not its collaborators. Draping a Dead Space skin over a straightforward Alien riff with a heavy side of The Thing—a team on a nebulous space mission navigates cramped hallways, wears cable-coated spacesuits, performs self-surgery, and wields readily available flamethrowers—Ash is at least brazen in its ode to the genre media Flying Lotus so obviously appreciates.