Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.
Ash (2025) treads familiar sci-fi horror ground — isolated survivor, mysterious deaths, paranoia about who to trust — without bringing much fresh to the subgenre. The plot leans heavily on well-worn tropes of alien infestation and psychological uncertainty, and the narrative execution is muddled rather than genuinely tense. The acting is serviceable with moments of real commitment, and the cinematography captures a cold, desolate atmosphere competently. The ending reportedly leaves audiences baffled in an unsatisfying rather than intriguingly ambiguous way, undermining the tension built earlier. Novelty is low because the premise recycles familiar elements from films like Alien, The Thing, and Event Horizon without a distinctive enough voice or execution to set it apart.