The Japanese sci-fi thriller HELLEVATOR (aka THE BOTTLED FOOLS, GUSHA NO BINDUME) was directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Hiroki Yamaguchi. In the future, huge multi-tiered buildings act as the main human dwellings, with massive elevators bringing people from one section to the next. Luchino is a troublemaking girl on her way up to school one morning, as normal denizens of the building join her in the elevator. But she realizes that trouble may be brewing when her unusual psychic power reveals to her that two of the men on the lift are psychotic killers, being transported to another prison level. When the power goes out, the prisoners escape, terrorizing the elevator with no way for the victims to escape. HELLEVATOR presents a paranoid and dystopic view of the future in the context of a claustrophobic horror story. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.