A Desert

Name: A Desert
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: May 2, 2025
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 64

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Dark Sky Films | Release Date: May 2, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: A photographer's road trip takes a dark turn when he befriends a reckless couple, plunging him into a nightmarish neo-noir spiral of unpredictable horror.

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jun 10, 2024

It’s a nightmare that burrows under one’s skin like a virus (or a curse), and it heralds its creator as a bracing new genre-filmmaking voice. Read full review

Bobby LePire

May 2, 2025

A Desert is a solid neo-noir with excellent visuals, good characterizations, and fantastic acting. Read full review

Empire Jamie Graham

Nov 25, 2025

Dreams and nightmares, innocence and experience, civilisation and nature… an elegiac horror/neo-noir debut that captures a snapshot of America’s lost soul. Director Joshua Erkman is one to watch. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Jun 10, 2024

Along with his co-writer Bossi Baker, Erkman has made a distinctly eerie and sinister debut that succeeds at sneaking into the depths of your subconscious. Read full review

Calum Marsh

May 2, 2025

Lynch is a difficult influence to wield responsibly, yet Erkman keeps it largely under control: A Desert, if at times too ambitious, certainly feels distinct. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Nov 18, 2025

Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut manages to deliver an impressively creepy horror exercise that’s also a bit of a send-up of horror conventions. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

May 2, 2025

Director Joshua Erkman shows promise throughout “A Desert,” his first feature, but his movie’s unyielding scenario, co-written with Bossi Baker, makes it hard to want to hang around while thinly drawn characters vaguely establish the movie’s themes. Read full review

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