Film Preview: Ash (2025)

Film Poster

Page Revisions:

(December 22, 2024) Original
(February 16, 2025) New Trailer (#2)
(March 16, 2025) New Poster (#2)

Release Date:

March 21, 2025

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.”

Poster Rating: C+ / C+

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Review: (#1, C+) Not leaning into the title might have been a mistake but this isn’t too outside the connection to the word. The colors are a bit overbearing but at least distinctive from most other designs in release, so it could benefit from that striking nature. It’s obvious it’s science fiction as well, which could bolster its numbers. It’s just an overall dull, surprisingly lifeless design.

(#2, C+) In the context of the film, it might make some sense but it doesn’t feel like the existing trailers establish enough information to allow this design to make sense.

Trailer Rating: C+ / C+

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Review: (#1, C+) Trying to sell a new science fiction film that looks like myriad other such films is a difficult task and nothing here speaks too effectively to the target audience. There are some interesting moments and it might have some merit to the viewer but the mediocre structure of the trailer inhibits much of that.

(#2, C+) There’s still a lot of confusion about what the point of this film. If it’s just cheap sci-fi horror, then it gets its message across. If not, then it doesn’t do much to bolster interest in the film. The premise is given little detail and the similarity to Alien is unfortunate.