Elevator Game is a film whose story is based on an internet creepypasta legend that originated in Japan and South Korea.
The legend states that if you use an elevator to travel to a series of floors, in a specific order...upon reaching the fifth floor...a mysterious woman will enter.
You can neither look at, nor speak to this woman...less she pull you into her realm.
After reaching the fifth floor...you hit the button for the first floor...and if you go up...towards the tenth floor...upon reaching said floor...you open a portal to her realm.
One much like our own, though where there is no electricity...and a red cross can be seen in the sky.
Hence it being called "The Red World" in the film.
To get back...you must go to the same elevator, and repeat the process...though...upon heading toward the tenth floor, you must interrupt the process by hitting a button for a floor between the one you are on, and the tenth floor.
This should, in theory, return you to your own dimension.
If the process is interrupted by someone else entering the elevator, prior to reaching the tenth floor...you must immediately return to the first floor...and not look back.
Such are the rules of The Elevator Game.
For the most part, the film remains true to these rules.
However they take some artistic liberties of their own.
By having the "Fifth Floor Woman" rip you apart if you break the rules, for example.
Going into this, I fully expected it to be stupid.
And it is.
But I actually kind of enjoyed it.
It's definitely the type of horror that is tailored towards adolescents, and the youtube generation.
I think, ideally, it would have worked better as a short film.
But, for what it is...it actually kind of works.
Which is substantially more than I expected from it.
So colour me pleasantly surprised.
4 out of 10.
