Elevator Game

2023

Action / Horror / Thriller

20
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.2/10 10 3885 3.9K

Plot summary

Socially awkward teenager Ryan discovers that the night his sister disappeared, she had played 'The Elevator Game' — a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules found online. Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
September 14, 2023 at 08:32 PM

Top cast

Madison MacIsaac as Izzy Simpson
Megan Best as Becki
Verity Marks as Chloe Young
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English 2.0
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1 hr 34 min
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1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ramobmw-46855 5 / 10

Acting sucks but scary scenes are pretty good

The acting is like others say cringe and trying to be comedic at times but the horror scenes are pretty good I must say... if you do a sequel get better actors. Or writers... I literally had to fast forward sone parts just to get to the good stuff, the kill scenes are good, the scene in the restaurant/bar was a joke.. a manager at the front managing 3 tables ? and more salt shakers then I've ever seen in my life in one place. The Sheldon character doesn't fit in the movie. It's not a comedy it's a horror movie or so it should be. The storyline scenes take too long and can put you to sleep.. 5/10.

Reviewed by tekumichan 5 / 10

Promising but with inconsistencies galore

I decided to watch this movie being certain that it'll allute to the Elisa Lam case (if you don't know the case I reccommend learning about it. It's sad and tragic) which many scare-seekers thought she played that exact Elevator Game. To my surprise the movie isn't about that. But also isn't about... anything else.

That's the main problem. The movie doesn't know what it wants to be and has so many inconsistencies that it's hard to decifer. At the same time it has a lot of creative and nice touches. So I'll go through with them chronologically.

  • The movie starts way too slow. The first "scary" thing happened along the 30-40 minute mark.


+ They are using real-life apps (like TikTok or YouTube) instead of making fake ones for no reason.

  • We have a token group. A dumb jock, a stupid blonde, a token nerd, a token beliver in ghosts, a token good girl and a sorta-main-protagonist.


+ The design of the monster FROM A FAR is great. Suddenly in all this chaos I saw TekeTeke-esc, japanese monster-like creature. It was uncanny, it was weird and it was perfect. The movement, the sound. *chef's kiss*

  • The design of the monster FROM A CLOSE UP is terrible. Then we get the close up. The makeup on the creature looks cheap and isn't anything creative nor scary. Makes me wonder why did they even bother with the close-ups.


+ (AND IT'S A BIG PLUS) Characters act like real-life people. If someone has no real proof of the monster - they won't react as we expect them to in stereotypical horror way. If characters saw the monster they will - correctly so - overly freak out as we would upon seeing an out of this world thing.

  • No matter what I said above, the characters don't TALK like real-life people. They act correct, but the dialogue is stiff and is really a hit or miss.


  • The monster attacks are inconsistent. We don't know what to expect from the ghost but not in a good way. Does she teleport? She must, 'cause she's seen attacking different people far away from each other. Does she muliply? She must, 'cause we've seen her attack multiple people at the same time. What are her powers? Everything? It must be, 'cause sometimes she's invisible. Sometimes she attacks like a Mind Flier (from Stranger Things) would. Sometimes she can stand away from you to hurt you. Sometimes she has to phisically touch you to do any harm. Beacuse of that she seems overpowered.


+ movie is self aware. Which is nice and they don't cross the mockery line at any point. Nice touch of realness.

  • people die at weird timing. Why did the ghost take sweet sweet time trying to get to some of them, only to find and murder the rest almost immediately? I don't know. It was confusing at best, and a little distracting at worst.


  • The backstory of the ghost comes a little too late and a little too out of nowhere. There is no time for the new information of such relevance to really sink in.


  • The movie doesn't know if it wants to be gory. Some deaths are very PG, off screen. Some have bowels ripped from the stomach. After few deaths the first gory death really took me out and not in a good way. I was surprised and confused. Agaon - not in a good way.


  • The actions of the last two surving protagonists are so out of
character. The girl knew not to open the eyes - she said it herself yet she did it. The guy knew to immediately go back and finish the game yet he stuttered and slacked off. Did the monster made them act weird? We'll never know because as I mentioned before - we don't know what the ghost can and cannot do.

+ The movie end the same way it started. With an unknowing idiot who tries to play the Elevator Game. You could argue the last one being more stupid, because at this point several people "dissapeard" in this place so... natural selection I guess. I like how it says that people will never change. That they will always go out of their way to chase clout and risk themselves which - again - is a realistic part of the movie.

I can appreciate the effort and some of the details. The biggest problem for me tho, is the pacing. The movie starts too slowly, making you lose interes in the story and fates of the characters. Some flaws can't be fixed but I feel that with a few editing decisions we'd have a much better, remade movie that could maybe even reach a 7 in rating.

Reviewed by korkysyard 4 / 10

The Embarrassing Game.

What a shower of crap. Just sat through this childish supposed to be, wanna be, horror film and hate myself for doing so.

It's like an episode Goosebumps,only with worse acting and less scares.

With a very low budget and very dislikeable characters,you just end up disliking everything about it.

I sometimes wonder why these films are even made because who in their right minds would enjoy making or watching stuff like this?

So anyway they've taken a game I'm sure everyone's heard about and actually had a chance to make something that could have been at least watchable. However they failed badly, buy just making a teen type cringefest.

If I were you I'd avoid this like the plague.

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