Netflix’s new horror No One Gets Out Alive recently arrived on the streaming service, but just how violent and scary is the movie, and does it feature many jump scares? Based on the 2014 novel by The Ritual author Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive is the latest psychological horror from Netflix. Directed by Santiano Menghini, No One Gets Out Alive tells the tale of Ambar, an illegal immigrant who takes up residence in a rundown boarding house and soon lives to regret her desperate choice.

Initially, the house seems to be haunted but soon the plot thickens and, like recent horror hit Malignant, No One Gets Out Alive turns out to be an entirely different, stranger sort of horror than the movie first seems to be. However, one thing that No One Gets Out Alive does have in common with most of Netflix’s horror output is a serious amount of gore—eventually. The slow burn horror takes its time getting into gear, and the opening acts are relatively reserved.

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However, once Ambar realizes what is really going on inside the seemingly haunted house, the gore is ramped up massively. The third act of No One Gets Out Alive features a slew of corpses, at least two gory onscreen deaths (one drawn-out and one instant), two more offscreen deaths, and plenty of implied carnage. Like Netflix’s recent Fear Street, it’s a gory and violent horror that pulls no punches when it comes to gruesome violence. However, No One Gets Out Alive also features a handful of jump scares, although they are mostly mercifully free from the irritating musical stings that tend to accompany suddens shocks in horror movies.

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Unlike a lot of recent horror hits, the trippy dream sequences and sudden jump scares of No One Gets Out Alive are justified within the movie’s narrative and the ending offers a reasonable explanation for the heroine’s hallucinations. That said, there are a plethora of moments wherein a spooky face appears out of the darkness or pops up behind the heroine, so any horror fans who are tired of James Wan-style jump scares may want to steer clear. While No One Gets Out Alive takes care to ground its horror imagery in a plot that adds up, there is still a preponderance of ghostly apparitions appearing out of nowhere in this outing.

Like a lot of recent horrors, No One Gets Out Alive mixes social commentary in with its terror and features a pretty sharp metaphorical exploration of immigrant exploitation. The movie’s violence and jump scares ensure it should satisfy horror fans looking for simple scares, but the sadder side of No One Gets Out Alive’s unsparing depiction of immigrant hardship is more likely to stay with viewers than its gory shocks. Like 2021’s Candyman remake, No One Gets Out Alive manages to marry social satire with horror without skimping on either, crafting a gory, scary story that is well worth a watch for anyone able to put up with a few silly jump scares.

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