Today, the Shudder exclusive The Elevator Game released a new trailer and announced the film will stream on September 15 instead of August 11.
One of the best things about the horror genre is that it can take pretty much any concept and turn it into a movie. Nothing can be done that hasn’t been done before. But sometimes the even the most derivative ideas can be fun if the filmmakers don’t take themselves too seriously.
The Elevator Game is one of those movies. We have seen everything in this movie before; we are familiar with this design, it just uses a different color. Somehow The Elevator Game still looks intriguing and if anything we can use it as filler until what we really want to see is available.
That being said the director of Elevator Game, Rebekah McKendry, has some well-reviewed titles in her catalog already. She is the person behind All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018) and the highly original rest stop glory hole movie Glorious (2022).
Here is what Shudder has to say about the plot:
Based on the online phenomenon of the same name, Elevator Game follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who ingratiates himself into a group of recent high school graduates that run an online web series debunking urban legends. But Ryan has a secret: His sister disappeared months earlier, and he believes they – and a dangerous online challenge called ‘The Elevator Game’ – were responsible. To play the game, you must ride the elevator in a specific sequence, invoking a supernatural creature called ‘The 5th Floor Woman’. In an attempt to gain more information as to the whereabouts of his sister, Ryan persuades the group to play the game once more, and risk unleashing the most fearsome consequences imaginable.
The film will stream on Shudder on September 15th.