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No One Gets Out Alive (film)

2021 film directed by Santiago Menghini

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ108743546 ↗
Source-derived summary

No One Gets Out Alive is a 2021 British supernatural horror film directed by Santiago Menghini (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jon Croker and Fernanda Coppel, loosely based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill. It stars Cristina Rodlo and Marc Menchaca and was released on 29 September 2021 by Netflix.

Plot

Ambar, an undocumented immigrant, moves from Mexico to Cleveland, Ohio, after her mother dies. She supports herself with an under the table job and her savings. In search of a place to stay, she finds a dilapidated boarding house run by Red, who requires the first month's rent up front. After she moves in, strange things start happening to her there and elsewhere. One night she sees a man banging his head against the door, whom she later learns is Red's mentally ill brother, Becker. Some rooms in the house are filled with strange artifacts, including depictions of ritual sacrifice. Ambar begins to see ghostly figures around the house.

In search of a better job, she gives a co-worker the remainder of her savings to obtain a fake ID that proclaims her a U.S. citizen, but the co-worker steals the money and disappears.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “No One Gets Out Alive (film)” as 2021 film directed by Santiago Menghini. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021. The account is most persuasive where Gets, Alive and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 film directed by Santiago Menghini. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108743546. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “No One Gets Out Alive (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.