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New Life

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New Life

Released May 3, 2024

1h 25m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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500+ Ratings

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

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.

Rated: 3/5

May 29, 2024

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

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

May 7, 2024

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

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.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 10, 2023

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John Serba

Decider

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

Mar 13, 2025

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Noah Berlatsky

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

It’s not a must see. But it’s determination to explore its new skin, with all its wounds, is worth watching if you are interested in zombies, disability, or their ugly, possibly enlightening intersection.

Oct 4, 2024

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

What a Scream Podcast

... isn’t anything wildly invigorating in the pandemic subgenre of horror, character study of a patient zero and the ailing woman tasked to hunt her down does vastly set it apart from its contemporaries.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 3, 2024

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Dick D

I enjoyed everything about this movie from the story, acting, integration of technology, moral and ethical questions, the way characters dealt with major challenges in their life, the cinematography and the soundtrack. I will definitely watch it again to see what I missed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/12/25

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Tim F

The story is to obvious the story telling is to linear and not complex enough for such a short movie. but good pictur

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/10/25

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Kogenta F

--spoilers ahead-- I long for a movie that actually understands how to handle a contagion outbreak. The correct way is not, I repeat not abducting someone and not telling them why they are detained or freaking touching them as they are dying without your hazmat suit on. Which some how didn't matter in the end because why not just let the now infected person continue to mingle around people... if they took it serious it could have been a much better movie, but nope.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/07/25

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Logan D

A fixer (Sonya Walger) obsessed with Like a Rolling Stone is contracted to hunt down an accused murderer. She doesn't inform them she is showing the onset of ALS and they don't inform her of the real reason they want her target. Impressive debut film for Rosman and emotional performances from the two female leads. The film leans more on thriller than horror but far more engaging are the themes of morality, responsibility, and survival. I did find the climax unsatisfactory but all that was prior was stellar.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/10/25

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Craig K

Interesting, complex sci-fi movie. The body horror effects are quite impressive.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/04/25

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Joel P

This has got to be one of the worst movies I've ever come across...Whoever sat through this mess and then went online to give this "movie" 5 stars is either personally connected to this movie or they are ....I can't even think of another reason If someone gave me the option of getting a root canal or watching this movie again it's a no brainer Root Canal!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/25

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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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