The Long Walk

Film • 2025 • Horror, Thriller

The Long Walk

The Long Walk

In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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Cast & Crew

Francis LawrenceDirector
JT MollnerScreenplay
Stephen KingNovel
Cooper HoffmanRaymond Garraty #47
David JonssonPeter McVries #23
Ben WangHank Olson #46
Tut NyuotArthur Baker #6
Charlie PlummerGary Barkovitch #5
Garrett WareingStebbins #38
Jordan GonzalezRichard Harkness #49
Joshua OdjickCollie Parker #48
Mark HamillThe Major
Roman Griffin DavisCurly #7
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Details

Status	Released
Release	September 10, 2025
Origins	United States of America
Genres	Horror Thriller
Tags	authoritarian regime based on novel or book bullying coming of age fatal competition forced march hard life‑or‑death stakes male friendship moral despair oppressive system psychological breakdown psychological horror psychological thriller stephen king suicide survival survival horror teen horror teenage boy youth dystopia

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In Review: 'The Long Walk,' 'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues' The Reveal • thereveal.film
Traumatizing New Stephen King Movie Is Terrifyingly Timely The Daily Beast • thedailybeast.com
Review: 'The Long Walk' is a straight line to one of Stephen King's darkest concepts Los Angeles Times • latimes.com
Review: ‘Long Walk’ is a brutal, and riveting, adaptation of Stephen King novel The Mercury News • mercurynews.com
‘The Long Walk’ Review: They Shoot Slowpokes, Don’t They, in Your Basic Totalitarian Nightmare Ryan Lattanzio • indiewire.com
FilmWeek: ‘The Long Walk,’ ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,’ ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,’ and more! LAist • laist.com
THE LONG WALK Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy • leonardmaltin.com
‘The Long Walk’ Review: A Tightly Wound Dystopian Thriller With an Excellent Cast Siddhant Adlakha • variety.com
In ‘The Long Walk,’ instant death is always a few steps away - The Boston Globe BostonGlobe.com • bostonglobe.com
Review: The Long Walk doesn’t quite keep the pace of Stephen King’s original novel The Globe and Mail • theglobeandmail.com