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Stars: Zack Gold, Jason Tobias, Bennett Viso, Bob Turton, Jake Crumbine, James C. Burns, Cooper Harris, George Ketsios, Michael Mercurio, Rachel Clentworth | Written by Thomas Jakobsen, Justin S. Monroe | Directed by Thomas Jakobsen

Michael has been trying to shake his heroin addiction. He has promised his pregnant girlfriend, to whom he is about to marry, that he is clean but that is not quite the truth. His friends stage a fake kidnapping as a prank for his bachelor party and Michael is hooded up and hauled off into the woods. But without his fix Michaels withdrawals start to kick in. After one of his friends is found dead the rest of the group start to feel increasingly scared and tormented and are thrown into a desperate game of survival as the mysterious killer rages on.

So, The Unraveling. Another “kids go to the woods, kids get killed” film. Right? That...

Elevator

Stars: Christopher Backus, Anita Briem, John Getz, Shirley Knight, Michael Mercurio, Devin Ratray, Joey Slotnick, Tehmina Sunny, Waleed Zuaiter | Written by Marc Rosenberg | Directed by Stig Svendsen

Nine people trapped in a lift facing death? Is this M. Knight Shyamalan’s Devil? Nope this is Elevator. A low-budget genre flick that does more with its limited resources than Devil ever did. A slow-burning, tense thriller that both knows, and plays with, genre conventions, the film sees nine people – Henry Barton (whose cocktail party they are all attending), his precocious granddaughter, two office executives, a glamorous TV news presenter, a pregnant woman, a nervous pensioner, the evening’s comic entertainer and a bodyguard – trapped in a lift after Barton’s granddaughter presses the emergency stop button as a practical joke on the claustrophobic, and obnoxious, comedian. Only one of the nine has a grudge against the Barton and his investment...

Elevator based thrills ensue in Stig Svendsen's 'Elevator' (of course!) when a group of strangers trapped in a lift try to uncover which one of them is concealing a bomb. Director Svendsen shoots from a script penned by 'December Boys' scribe Marc Rosenberg and Inception Media Group is releasing it onto DVD from 21 August in the Us. The thriller stars Christopher Backus ('Among Friends'), John Getz ('The Social Network'), Shirley Knight, Michael Mercurio, Amanda Pace, Rachel Pace, Devin Ratray, Joey Slotnick, Tehmina Sunny and Waleed Zuaiter along with Icelandic hottie Anita Briem -below ('Journey to the Center of the Earth', 'Dylan Dog: Dead of Night'). Check out the plot and DVD artwork below. The flick arrives on DVD here in the UK from 3 September....

Wall Street party-goers are trapped on an elevator - 1 has a bomb. They will do Anything to survive. Elevator is the latest film from award-winning writer/producer Marc Rosenberg and director Stig Svendsen. Starring John Getz, Shirley Knight, Joey Slotnick, Christopher Backus, Waleed Zuaiter, Devin Ratray, Anita Briem, Tehmina Sunny, Rachel and Amanda Pace and Michael Mercurio. With issues of racism, greed, war, politics and infidelity conver…...

Photo by Alain Betrancourt

We recently visited the set of Elevator, an independent film that takes place on, you guessed it, an elevator. During a party for the Barton Investment Company, nine people end up trapped in the elevator of a Manhattan hi-rise and discover someone has a bomb. The result is a story of racial tension, financial scandal, scorned lovers, and revenge.

The key here is that the action occurs Entirely on an elevator. With the exception of one brief establishing scene at the start of the film, the nine-member cast spends 90 minutes confined to a small metal box as the drama unfolds around them.

It is written and produced by Marc Rosenberg, a Texas native transplanted to Australia, who is back in the States making his first U.S. film with Norwegian director Stig Svendson. Tor Arne Øvrebø, Svendson's line producer on many projects prior to Elevator, is...