SXSW 2025 Review: ASH, Flying Lotus Delivers Gory Space Horror

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Riya Ortiz wakes up in a desolate space station. Red warning lights flash, ominous automated messages call out from the station’s computer. Then the bodies. Bodies everywhere. These were friends, co-workers, maybe lovers. Now they are silent, covered in blood, obvious victims of brutal violence, how how? Why? Is the danger still present, or is it passed? As the ship’s life support systems begin to falter, Riya is determined to discover the truth, but will she find it before something lurking in the shadows finds her? This is the setup for musician/filmmaker Flying Lotus’s sophomore feature, Ash, and if it sounds familiar, it should. Following up his scatologically obsessed debut film, Kuso, Flying Lotus returns to the director’s chair – and makes his on camera...

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