New Life

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New Life

2024

1h 25m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. On her tail is Elsa, a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, holes in Elsa's investigation begin to fill with fresh bodies. Soon the pursuit spirals toward its harrowing confrontation between the two women, in search of meaning and redemption, on the razor's edge of catastrophe.

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Critics Consensus

Breathing New Life to the genre, this excellently acted brooding horror thriller marks a propitious debut for John Rosman.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

05/29/2024

3/5

Amid the dumper-truck of post-Covid lockdown-inspired films, very few take disease and pandemics themselves as their central focus. So John Rosman’s stripped-back but effective debut is a sobering flashback to those incubative early days.

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

05/07/2024

Lovers of hard-core horror with elements of science fiction and allusions to body horror, rejoice. [Full review in Spanish]

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

08/10/2023

3.5/5

It’s not just the complexities of its characters that are compelling, but Rosman’s ability to drop narrative bombs that cataclysmically alter the genre and narrative direction.

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Steve Morrissey

Radio Times

Mar 23

4/5

The accomplished leads add depth to their archetypal roles as hunter and hunted, making this a most unpredictable tale in which we're never entirely sure who to root for.

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Codie Allen

Geek Vibes Nation

07/18/2025

9/10

New Life revitalizes the zombie genre by infusing it with a profoundly human touch, breathing new life into the archetype and leaving a lasting resonance.

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John Serba

Decider

03/13/2025

In a vacuum, New Life is watchable; properly contextualized, it’s a rock-solid mishmash of thriller and horror elements.

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Aashiq R

@Kakaonkaka Aug 18

I made an account here to specifically give this as low a rating as possible. HOW the heck is this trash movie getting anything above a 1 star is beyond me. The acting is absolutely atrocious, the premise is over played, and the story itself is laughable. Do NOT get fooled by these ratings, this is an absolute waste of time

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Chase G

@Mr_Swayze Aug 18

Good movie, no holes, great concept. The zombie fights were kind of goofy. Got a 30 second scene from where I grew up so that was cool. W movie

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Teresa G

@Texmarie Aug 9

I enjoyed this movie, but I thought the ending was a little lackluster. They did the pacing well, and they didn’t treat the audience like idiots, nor were any of the characters. The extremely rapid progression of the main character’s disability was a little distracting for me because it felt like the movie only took place over the course of a few days. The acting was very well done.

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Kashgar A

@AllFunAndGames Jun 26

Good overall but they needed to move the opening act on a little faster, it would’ve been easy to lose interest at that point.

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Nigel L

@NJSLim Apr 21

Fresh take on the pandemic subgenre horror and an intriguing directorial debut from John Rosman.

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Sphincter M.

@SphincterMagic Apr 4

Kinda made me want to die

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Synopsis

Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. On her tail is Elsa, a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, holes in Elsa's investigation begin to fill with fresh bodies. Soon the pursuit spirals toward its harrowing confrontation between the two women, in search of meaning and redemption, on the razor's edge of catastrophe.

Director: John Rosman
Producer: Mike Marchlewski, T. Justin Ross
Screenwriter: John Rosman
Distributor: Brainstorm Media
Production Co: Great Lakes Vacuum Supplies Unlimited, American Storyworks
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2024
Runtime: 1h 25m

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