Run(2025)

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for some strong violent content/bloody images, sexual references and language
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller

Release Date: Aug 29, 2025 | Wide

Melissa has just walked out on her own wedding. Her friends drag her to a cabin in the woods for a reset. Then Jenny turns up dead in the trees, and the news announces a full-scale alien invasion across the country. With no help coming and no way out, the group is left to survive on its own. A sci-fi survival thriller about friendship, fear, and what women do when they have no one left to call.

Releases

Original Release | Aug 29, 2025

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Director & Top Cast

Chris Stokes
Director

Douglas Russell
Mick

Summaries

Plot Summary

Run is a 2025 American sci-fi thriller directed and co-written by Chris Stokes, with additional screenplay credit to Marques Houston. The film follows Melissa (Annie Ilonzeh), who walks out on her fiancé Andre (Marques Houston) at the altar and is convinced by her friends to decompress at a remote cabin. When one of the group is found mutilated in the surrounding woods, and a nationwide alien attack is announced, the women are left stranded and must fight to survive without outside assistance. The cast also includes Drew Sidora, Erica Mena, Erica Pinkett, Ken Lawson, Claudia Jordan, and Obba Babatunde. The film was produced by Footage Films and directed by Stokes, who also served as cinematographer. It was released in limited US theaters on August 29, 2025, distributed by Footage Films, with a PG-13 rating. The film runs 95 minutes. Core themes include friendship, survival, self-reliance, and crisis. The film is for audiences drawn to low-budget sci-fi survival thrillers.

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From streaming to theaters: The film marked a major career leap for Footage Films, a Black-owned studio that built its name producing over 23 #1 Tubi Originals before taking this project to a theatrical release.