The Long Walk
About The Long Walk
In a dystopian 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.
The Long Walk is a 2025 horror science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence. The film is filed under male friendship, teenage boy, psychological horror, and survival horror.
Cooper Hoffman appears as Raymond Garraty #47, David Jonsson as Peter McVries #23, Garrett Wareing as Billy Stebbins #38, and Ben Wang as Hank Olson #46. At 108 minutes long, it arrived in September 2025.
The screenplay is by JT Mollner. It was produced by about:blank, Lionsgate, and Media Capital Technologies. The film began as a novel. It streams on HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, and Starz Apple TV channel in the United States.
Close, Where the Crawdads Sing, and Walkabout make useful companions to The Long Walk, all filed under bullying and coming of age. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 2,119 votes and it carries a R rating.