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The original was posted on /r/horror by /u/GladiusAcutus on 2025-10-25 11:07:45+00:00.

The Long Walk (2025) was pretty decent. I watched it for the first time last night and it felt like a classic Stephen King movie. The characters were actually interesting and there was a ton of good dialog. I put this movie in the “game horror” genre, like Escape Room, The Belko Experiment, Cube, etc. The characters looked timeless as well. I didn’t feel like the director was like “ok, you all are gen z, act like gen z !”, they acted like normal young men, almost instiguishable from millenial or gen x men.

I’ve heard this movie did bad at the box office, unfortunately movies like these don’t do well in theaters, but can form cult classic fans (Donnie Darko comes to mind). I give this movie an 8/10. If you all like Stephen King movies then this is right up your alley, I like dystopian game horror man, can’t get enough of those movies.

EDIT: There is also one thing I didn’t get. In the beginning of the movie, one of the dudes said that every man volunteers for the Long Walk, but since it’s a lottery, the likelihood of getting picked is low. Seriously though, I didn’t understand why any of these 50 kids would join the Long Walk knowing that they would have a 1/50 chance of living. I don’t understand how when these kids won the lottery, why did they just not show up to save themselves ? 1/50 is really low odds man. Why did they join the Long Walk knowing that you are most likely to die ?