Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.
Acting
Aidan Gillen's sleazy desperation is *chefs kiss* unhinged.
Direction
Castañeda wrings 80 minutes of panic from one steel box.
Practical Effects
Real elevator, real heat, real suffering — you feel it.
Director
Rigoberto Castañeda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in an actual non-functioning elevator in Mexico City; cast genuinely couldn't leave for hours. Method claustrophobia.
One of the few Mexican horror films to get a US theatrical release in 2008, riding the 'torture porn' wave without the actual torture porn.
US
