Single-Take Thriller ‘Failure!’ Starring Ted Raimi Available Now

Genre favorite Ted Raimi (Evil Dead II, Candyman) must choose between financial ruin or murder in Failure!

Shot in a continuous 87-minute take, the film is available now on Digital from Red Water Entertainment.

Raimi stars as James, a devoted family man and business tycoon facing a dire ultimatum: resolve a crushing bank debt within an hour or risk losing his business. With greedy associates, deceitful friends, and haunting ghosts from his past closing in, James is pushed to the brink, faced with the unthinkable choice between financial ruin or murder.

Writer-director Alex Kahuam is the first Mexican filmmaker to make a feature film without cuts in the US.

Noel Douglas Orput, Merrick McCartha, Melissa Diaz, Daniel Kuhlman, John Paul Medrano, and Spencer Langston round out the cast.

“The scenario was very enticing because there are no cuts; it’s an hour and a half and no cuts,” Raimi told Bloody Disgusting. “And I felt capable of doing such a thing because I got my training in theater first. I started doing theater when I was 16, so from about the age of 16 through about 22, I was doing almost exclusively theater. I started doing films from there. So that was nice knowing that I was capable of that kind of stamina in front of the camera.”

Failure! screened at the 2023 inaugural Fantastic Pavilion Gala, the genre showcase of the Cannes Film Market, and world premiered at Frightfest 2023. It also screened at Morbido Film Fest, Fantaspoa, and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.