FilmSci-Fi Horror Psychological Survival

Hellevator: The Bottled Fools2004

Name: Hellevator: The Bottled Fools
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological, Survival, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2004-02-28
Rating: 6.1

Directed by Hiroki Yamaguchi

6.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.9TMDB 5.5

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Year

2004

Runtime

96 min

The premise

Luchino's routine morning elevator ride up from her subterranean home on level 138 to her school many stories above turns horrific when the elevator operator is ordered to pick up two passengers from floor 99, the maximum security level. What starts as psychological manipulation soon turns wholly physical as both the cruel convicts and Luchino's own dysfunctional past are unleashed. And then every passenger must fight for his or her survival.

Horror Vault's take

In a grim underground dystopia, a teenage girl's mundane elevator commute becomes a waking nightmare when two dangerous convicts are forced aboard. The sealed metal car transforms into a pressure cooker of psychological torment and brutal violence, with no exit and no easy allies. Japanese cult filmmaker Hiroki Yamaguchi crafts a relentlessly claustrophobic descent that digs as deep into its protagonist's fractured psyche as it does into cyberpunk worldbuilding.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Psychological Torment, Depictions Of Trauma