Rotten
Circling wildly within the film's main set -- a stalled elevator car -- or hurtling up and down an empty shaft, Mr. Fujimoto's camera is as giddy as a tween at a Justin Bieber concert.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Devil
Bad things happen for a reason.
2010 · 1h 20m · PG-13
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
John Erick Dowdle
Overview
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Director and cast
- John Erick Dowdle Director
- Chris Messina as Detective Bowden
- Jacob Vargas as Ramirez
- Bojana Novaković as Young Woman
- Logan Marshall-Green as Mechanic
- Bokeem Woodbine as Guard
- Matt Craven as Lustig
- Joshua Peace as Detective Markowitz
- Caroline Dhavernas as Elsa Nahai
- Zoie Palmer as Cheryl
- Vincent Laresca as Henry
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There's an old belief in TV series production circles that if you're doing a stuck-in-an-elevator episode before Season 4, it's a telltale sign you've run fresh out of ideas.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
A Night Gallery reject worth experiencing only to gape at a "spirituality" that falls somewhere between Dostoyevsky and Jack Chick, and to laugh that such daring feats of narrative illogic were undertaken with a straight face.
Nick Pinkerton, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
This is the sort of cut-rate cinematic Cheez Whiz that gives religious horror movies a bad name. Still, at least it's not The Last Airbender.
Drew Toal, Time Out New York
Fresh
The great cinematographer Tak Fujimoto has the time of his life on this low-budget horror feature, playing with dolly shots, abrupt zooms, and negative space inside the widescreen frame, and the fun is infectious.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
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