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On his first official day of retirement, Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel) is called back to the precinct when a blood-drenched teenager named AJ (Dylan Sprouse) surrenders with a chilling ultimatum: he has buried Shaw's teenage son alive. Plunged into a living nightmare, Shaw is forced to revisit a trail of grisly homicides as the oxygen in his son's remote grave runs out. In a pulse-pounding race against the clock, Shaw must navigate a precinct on the brink of mutiny and a suspect who thrives on psychological warfare, as his investigation unearths a devastating truth: Shaw wasn't chosen at random.

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Leslie Felperin Guardian 1d
2/5
For all its cack-handedness, there’s some effort here to grapple with issues around institutional and personal guilt and the wrongs done to young people that might turn them into smirking, giggling serial killers. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 16h
A suspenseful, intense and exhilarating crime thriller. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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David Lipper

Director

Josh Duhamel

Detective Shaw

Dylan Sprouse

The Kid

David Lipper

Mayor Richards

Til Schweiger

Capt. Haas

Elena Sanchez

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Synopsis On his first official day of retirement, Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel) is called back to the precinct when a blood-drenched teenager named AJ (Dylan Sprouse) surrenders with a chilling ultimatum: he has buried Shaw's teenage son alive. Plunged into a living nightmare, Shaw is forced to revisit a trail of grisly homicides as the oxygen in his son's remote grave runs out. In a pulse-pounding race against the clock, Shaw must navigate a precinct on the brink of mutiny and a suspect who thrives on psychological warfare, as his investigation unearths a devastating truth: Shaw wasn't chosen at random.
Director
David Lipper
Producer
David Lipper, Robert A. Daly Jr., Ryan Winterstern, Denise Loren, Mark Canton, Dorothy Canton
Screenwriter
Adam G. Levine, David Lipper
Distributor
Inaugural Entertainment
Production Co
Latigo Films
Rating
R (Some Language|Violence/Bloody Images)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 8, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 33m