08-20-2006, 07:51 AM
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Another intense character-driven horror flick from Japan.
For the most part the film takes place in a 8' by 12' elevator. The passengers are residents of a masive underground city. They enter and leave as the elevator makes its way up the 135+ floors, the counter ticking its way up to the top floor, floor 1.
When the elevator stops at the prison level and takes on two convicts being transferred to a different level things get interesting.
I probably wouldn't be giving too much away by saying the convicts manage to get free of their captors and create quite a csene in the previously peaceful elevator.
The passengers include a schoolgirl (naturally), a biologist, a woman with her baby, an oblivious teen and the always courteous female elevator operator.
The sets and devices are all delightfully 'steampunk' and the acting is superb. There is quite a bit of gore and lots of head-scratching moments. Plenty of flashbacks, flash-forwards and mysterious visions allow the film to flesh out the characters and escape the confines of the elevator.
So, if you've been looking for a good blood-drenched elevator movie, check out 'Hellevator' aka 'Gusha no Bindume' aka 'The Bottled Fools'.
Another intense character-driven horror flick from Japan.
For the most part the film takes place in a 8' by 12' elevator. The passengers are residents of a masive underground city. They enter and leave as the elevator makes its way up the 135+ floors, the counter ticking its way up to the top floor, floor 1.
When the elevator stops at the prison level and takes on two convicts being transferred to a different level things get interesting.
I probably wouldn't be giving too much away by saying the convicts manage to get free of their captors and create quite a csene in the previously peaceful elevator.
The passengers include a schoolgirl (naturally), a biologist, a woman with her baby, an oblivious teen and the always courteous female elevator operator.
The sets and devices are all delightfully 'steampunk' and the acting is superb. There is quite a bit of gore and lots of head-scratching moments. Plenty of flashbacks, flash-forwards and mysterious visions allow the film to flesh out the characters and escape the confines of the elevator.
So, if you've been looking for a good blood-drenched elevator movie, check out 'Hellevator' aka 'Gusha no Bindume' aka 'The Bottled Fools'.
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