Completed - ENGLISH - Thriller
A tense, found footage thriller. Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb… But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.
Year of production : 2012 Director(s) : Matthew THOMPSON Writer(s) : Scott BOLGER, Kent MURRAY, Matthew THOMPSON Cast : Jennifer MORRISON Producer(s) : Christine ALDERSON
Three traumatised veterans – two men and a woman - freshly back from the middle east, enter an express elevator in a high-tech military building. Half way up, an explosion rocks the building, the elevator grinds to a halt. Their cell phones won’t connect, radio stations are down – something big has happened. A dirty bomb has hit Washington, radiation levels will be fatal in thirty minutes and the building is being evacuated. There is no-one to get them out, their only option is to open a hatch and climb onto the roof where there is a control panel that will send the car down to ground level. Tension is high in the elevator. One of the soldiers has history with the female soldier and confrontation is imminent. When they finally get onto the roof, the control panel is broken. They are stuck. We then reveal they are being watched from a control room. No bomb has gone off. Everything that has happened to them has been triggered by the two people watching them. They are stepping through a series of stressful ‘events’ and monitoring their physical responses. This is a secret trial for a new drug developed to treat post traumatic stress disorder. As the trial continues, there is a black out in the elevator and the controllers hear screams and a violent struggle. One of the soldiers attacks the girl. The other intervenes to protect her. When the lights come back on the man who intervened is lying in a pool of blood, dead. Now the girl is alone with a murderer. She gets onto the roof where she is safe – for now. Panic in the control room. One of the controllers wants to abort but the other doesn’t. They consult their superiors. The General gets rid of the panicking controller and tells the one that remains that what has happened threatens the whole drug development and must be dealt with. He tells him he must add one more ‘event’ to the trial – Event 15. This event is to release the elevator brakes, killing the occupants. If he does this, the drug will go live, helping thousands of traumatised veterans. As the controller struggles with his dilemma, the girl attempts a dangerous escape by climbing the cable, the murderer close behind. By the time the controller releases the brakes, the female soldier has escaped while the murderer falls to his death. She finds out about the drug trial and we see her secretly downloading the footage from the elevator cameras. We finally realise everything we have seen was edited from the material on her hard drive.
Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM
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