{"id":509,"date":"2026-04-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=509"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:00:00","slug":"the-exit-8-movie-is-even-better-if-you-play-the-game-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"The Exit 8 movie is even better if you play the game first"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A still image from the film Exit 8.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Neon\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/EXIT8_Still2_Courtesy-of-NEON.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There&#8217;s an intriguing new video game adaptation to watch in theaters &#8211; and no, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/904033\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&#8217;s not that one<\/a>. <em>Exit 8<\/em>, based on the game of the same name, hits the big screen on April 10th, and it&#8217;s part of a burgeoning trend of horror movies directly inspired by indie games and liminal scares on YouTube. (See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/874500\/iron-lung-theater-box-office-markiplier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the surprise success of <em>Iron Lung<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/903988\/youtube-style-horror-continues-to-infiltrate-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the upcoming <em>Backrooms<\/em> feature<\/a>.) It&#8217;s also the rare adaptation where I&#8217;d highly recommend playing the game <em>before<\/em> seeing the movie. Doing so makes the surreal experience of the film into something even stranger, and the good news is playing the game is a very easy thing to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The game is a curious project to \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/908944\/exit-8-movie-versus-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an intriguing new video game adaptation to watch in theaters &#8211; and no, it&#8217;s not that one. Exit 8,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}