Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

foutainoflife Much better than I expected it to be. There are a few movies about being trapped in an elevator and this is one that managed to keep me interested. Glad I watched it.

Claudio Carvalho Three strangers are trapped inside an elevator in an empty apartment building during a blackout. The asthmatic Claudia (Amber Tamblyn) is traumatized with the accident with her beloved grandmother due to a moment of distraction. Karl (Aidan Gillen) is a widow doctor that loves his daughter. Tommy (Armie Hammer) is a young man that has just accidentally killed the violent father of his girlfriend Francesca (Katie Stuart) while protecting her and is planning to runaway to Paris with her. The tension of group escalates to a nightmare when one of the strangers shows that is a psychopath and sadistic serial-killer. "Blackout" is an effective low-budget thriller with a tense and scary story. The plot is uncomfortable despite most of the story happening in one location with flashbacks of the lives of the three characters. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Blackout – Prisioneiros do Medo" ("Blackout – Prisoners of the Fear")

liamhorne-961-700606 there are some good things about this film like the flash backs which build really help you get to know the characters and also help to break up the film as unlike Phone booth I don't believe this film would have worked as just being set in the same confined space for over an hour. The tension is also well acted. Lastly but possibly not as important is the theme tune at the beginning which I loved and thought worked really well with the images on the opening titles. Now for the bad points the amount of time that they were stuck in the lift was a little unrealistic and ending also seemed a little bit rushed. Overall though a good film and an OK way to pass some spare time you might have.

Rathko 'Blackout' is one of those obscure little multinational affairs that can either be jaw-droppingly bad or a rare unearthed gem - happily, it's the latter. Three characters are trapped overnight in a stalled elevator, bickering and bitching as they try and find a way out while thinking back to the sequence of events that led them there. These 'Lost'-style flashbacks eventually reveal that one of their number is a vicious sociopath. It's clear that Mexican director Castaneda is influenced more by the character driven horror of the sixties and seventies than by vapid eighties slashers, but his interest in people shouldn't be mistaken for squeamishness when it comes to ugly sexual violence - it's been a long time since I wanted to see a bad guy get what he deserves as much as I did watching 'Blackout'. Castaneda uses more than a few moves from the David Fincher play-book, with the camera squeezing through keyholes and cracks and plummeting down elevator shafts, and the whole thing is beautifully photographed, belying what was in truth a meager budget of only $4 million. A great psychological thriller from a director who deserves success.