A group of ambitious young tech executives is sent to a luxury desert mansion for a company team-building retreat. Their CEO has something different in mind. What begins as an awkward weekend of forced bonding rituals turns into a blood-soaked fight for survival when the executives realize they are trapped in a sadistic game with no HR department to appeal to. A horror dark comedy about corporate culture, survival, and the particular terror of a performance review that ends with someone dead.
Corporate Retreat is a 2026 American horror dark comedy written and directed by Aaron Fisher, co-written with Kerri Lee Romeo. The film follows a group of young tech executives whose luxury team-building retreat at a remote desert mansion descends into a deadly survival scenario orchestrated by their unhinged leader. Odeya Rush leads the ensemble as the film's central protagonist. The cast includes Alan Ruck, Rosanna Arquette, Sasha Lane, Ashton Sanders, Benjamin Norris, Elias Kacavas, Tyler Alvarez, Zión Moreno, Lilly Krug, and Kirby Johnson. The film is produced by Uri Singer and distributed by Western Film Services. Principal photography took place in June 2025 following a pre-production announcement in March of that year.The film premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival on April 5, 2026, with Fisher and most of the cast in attendance. It was released in the United States in over 500 theaters nationwide on May 22, 2026, distributed by Western Film Services. The film runs 89 minutes. Core themes include workplace culture, survival, power, class, and corporate satire. The film is for audiences drawn to horror, dark comedies, and workplace satire with a violent edge.
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Uri Singer of Passage Pictures — the company behind White Noise — described the film's tone as a fusion of the culinary satire The Menu and the brutal survival horror of Saw, calling it an exploration of the "cold-blooded hierarchy of power."
Lilly Krug was originally announced as the lead in March 2025, but by May 2025 Odeya Rush had taken over the central role of Ginger Hayes, with Krug no longer listed among the main ensemble when principal photography began.
The project was revealed to be in pre-production in March 2025, added cast members through April and May, and began principal photography in June 2025 — an unusually fast turnaround for an ensemble studio thriller.
With a lean 1-hour-29-minute runtime, the film is set to premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival on April 5, 2026, before its U.S. theatrical release on May 22, 2026.