FAILURE!
2025 | 87min | crime — thriller — drama (one continuous long-take)
It follows a man who is given one hour to choose between
financial ruin or murder to protect his family.
Writer & Director
Alex Kahuam
Starring
Ted Raimi
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Press
featured in 100+ articles
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Ted Raimi thriller “Failure!” snapped up for American distribution at Cannes market by Red Water Entertainment (Exclusive)
5/16/2024
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Mexican bad boy Alex Kahuam, director of Forgiveness who brings us Ted Raimi on top form in Failure!, shot in one single take.
7/13/2023
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UK Genre Event FrightFest Unveils Lineup For 2023 Edition- director Alex Kahuam FAILURE! features a tour-de-force performance from cult superstar Ted Raimi as 56 year-old James caught between a rock and a hard place.
7/13/2023
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Failure!, another single-take shocker from Alex Kahuam (Forgiveness) starring Ted Raimi.
7/13/2023
via Starburst -
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Alex Kahuam’s Ted Raimi Thriller “Failure!” Goes With Alief (Exclusive)
5/23/2023
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Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion To Debut With 7 International Genre Screenings. The legendary festival will celebrate genre diversity with Spanish vampires, invisible Brits and a Ted Raimi thriller.
5/9/2023
via Fangoria
Festivals
Cannes Marche Du Film — Fantastic Pavilion Galas
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)
London FrightFest
Morbido Film Festival
Fantaspoa
Reviews
reviewed by 100+ critics
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Starburst Magazine
★★★★★
“Think a more natural and less showy Tarantino — that’s both engaging and engrossing and deserves a wider audience and shows that the young director has plenty of promise.”
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MovieWeb
“Writer and director Alex Kahuam, as well as cinematographer Ernesto Lomeli, use the one-take aesthetic to perfection, with zero cuts or transitions. A brilliant and mind-blowing achievement indeed, one which will help instantly hook audiences in with its mysterious and undeniably tense atmosphere, which continues throughout.”
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The Hollywood News
★★★★
“A tour-de-force-performance by Ted Raimi combines with some brilliant camera play to make Failure! an absorbing one-take wonder that keeps the viewer guessing.”
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Film News
★★★★
“Writer and director Alex Kahuam manages to keep a very dialogue heavy film fluid through tight control of the action; the camera almost never stops, torquing up the tension every so often to a fairly satisfactory conclusion.”
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Kim Newman (Top British critic)
“Raimi’s worn-down, et tenacious rich guy in mansion, who sheds all sorts of qualms in order to get through the evening is a keeper of a performance. It’s funny.”
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Horror Fuel
“Writer/director Alex Kahuam splendidly crafted a one-take feature.”
Around
the world
FAILURE!
77th Cannes Film Festival
Brazilian Premiere at Fantaspoa film festival
27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), A-list film festival
Latin American Premiere at Morbido Fest
World Premiere at London FrightFest, Cineworld Leicester Square
76th Cannes Film Festival - Fantastic Pavilion
