FAILURE!

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Bruce Campbell Heaps Praise on FAILURE!

2/5/2025
via Starburst
Ted Raimi thriller “Failure!” snapped up for American distribution at Cannes market by Red Water Entertainment (Exclusive)

5/16/2024
via Variety
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
via Bloody Disgusting
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
via Deadline
Failure!, another single-take shocker from Alex Kahuam (Forgiveness) starring Ted Raimi.

7/13/2023
via Starburst
Alex Kahuam’s Ted Raimi Thriller “Failure!” Goes With Alief (Exclusive)

5/23/2023
via Variety
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

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Reviews
reviewed by 100+ critics

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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Horror Fuel

“Writer/director Alex Kahuam splendidly crafted a one-take feature.”