A team-building weekend meant to smooth over office politics turns into a fight for survival in Corporate Retreat, an 89-minute horror comedy that mixes dark laughs with a genuinely vengeful antagonist.
What is Corporate Retreat about?
A group of young executives sets off for what's billed as a luxury team-building trip, the kind of corporate ritual designed to build trust and shake loose a little competitive energy. Instead, the retreat curdles fast: their retreat leader turns out to be nursing a grudge, and the group finds itself hunted across the same grounds meant for trust falls and icebreakers. The film plays its horror straight even as it leans hard into dark comedy, using the absurdity of corporate-speak and forced bonding exercises as a backdrop for genuine dread. Shocking twists keep reshuffling who's in danger and who might be complicit, and the survival-horror pacing never lets the humor undercut the stakes for long. Odeya Rush and Sasha Lane lead an ensemble that also includes Elias Kacavas, Ashton Sanders, Zión Moreno, Benjamin Norris, Tyler Alvarez, and Kirby Johnson, under the direction of Aaron Fisher.
About the cast
Odeya Rush and Sasha Lane top the cast as two of the executives caught in the retreat's collapse, with Elias Kacavas, Ashton Sanders, Zión Moreno, and Benjamin Norris filling out the rest of the trapped office group. Tyler Alvarez and Kirby Johnson round out the ensemble. Aaron Fisher directs, balancing the film's comic and horror registers across a cast built for both.
Context & significance
Corporate Retreat sits in a growing lane of horror comedy that uses the modern workplace as its setting, swapping the isolated cabin of classic slasher films for a corporate wellness retreat and getting its scares from the gap between polished team-building language and real violence. It's a United States production with an 89-minute runtime built for a tight, escalating pace rather than a sprawling ensemble body count.
Watching Corporate Retreat on Ktime
Corporate Retreat is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can watch it either way. A free K-Time account login is all that's required to stream; the film's page itself can be browsed without signing in. K-Time is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora, with the catalog organized and searchable entirely in Persian.