CORPORATE RETREAT

(director/writer: Aaron Fisher; screenwriter: Kerry Lee Romeo; cinematographer: Josh Fisher; editor: Claudia Castello; music: Anna Drubich; cast: Kirbie Johnson (Billie Hoffman), Ashton Sanders (Carl Thomas), Tyler Alvarez (Omar Rodriguez), Ellen Tolland (Aubrey Johnson), Allan Ruck (Arthur Scott), Eden Amira (Martha), Rosanna Arquette (Deborah O’Hara), Benjamin Norris (Devin Hill), Sasha Lane (Lola Price), Odeya Rush (Ginger Hayes), Zion Moreno (Amber Garcia), Elias Kacavas (Cliff St. Clair), Omar Sharif Jr. (Ken, the actor is Omar’s grandson); Runtime: 89; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Uri Singer; Western Film Service; 2026)

“Absurd horror dark-comedy.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
 
Aaron Fisher (“Inside the Rain”) directs and co-writes this absurd horror dark-comedy with Kerry Lee Romeo. It’s filled with gratuitous violence, corporate heads all inconceivably in their 20s, and has an inane story that failed to hold my attention.


Top management at Immaculate Pond Technologies has organized a luxury spa retreat for its workers. Lola (Sasha Lane) and Amber (Zion Moreno) act as guides. At the spa, the workers-Billie (Kirbie Johnson), Carl (Ashton Sanders), Aubrey (Ellen Tolland), Deborah (Rosanna Arquette), Cliff (Elias Kacavas) and his girlfriend Ginger (Odeya Rush)- are held hostage by the guides and Arthur Scott (Alan Ruck), the unhinged founder and ex-CEO of Immaculate Pond, who is now a demonic spiritual cult leader seeking revenge for being given the boot by those now in charge of the company.

You see the throat of a colleague slit, the cutting open of a corpse to remove the heart, and the removal of one’s own eyeball with a spoon.

It’s a mindless and unpleasant film that has little intrinsic value, but those not squeamish who can sit through the gore might find certain things about it amusing.

It played at the Brussel’s International Fantastic Film Festival.

REVIEWED ON 5/23/2026  GRADE: C-
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