Blackout

Originally published at Nightfalling. Please leave any comments there.

3 people who don’t know each other – an “older” male doctor (they act like he’s in his 40’s but I bet he’s only in his early 30’s), a female college student, and a “young” man (they give the impression he’s high school age but he’s covered in tats and there’s no way his face is that of a teen) get stuck in an elevator in their abandoned apartment complex over 4th of July weekend. If that isn’t tense enough, 1 of them’s actually a serial killer and said person starts acting pretty twitchy early on. I don’t know if it was supposed to be a big shock which one would be the killer because if so, they did a terrible job keeping it secret.

I couldn’t get into this because it felt unbelievable. They’re in the elevator like 4 hours before they even try to pry open the doors, even longer before 1 of them climbs on top of the elevator and attempts to climb up the shaft, and they proceed to hang out until hour 19 before another attempt is made! And wouldn’t there be some sort of safety access along the side of the elevator, somewhere up by the walls in a modern building? There’s only a shaft. And a super un-safe looking 1 at that.

And the building manager would get sued because there’s no actual emergency call – somewhere around hour 5 or so after the 1 who climbs out falls back in and jars the elevator, a looping auto-voice comes on assuring them techs are aware of the problem and will assist shortly. Apparently the loop goes for a while because it comes back in several hours later as it kinda dies. And the building is HUGE. But they only have 5 families in it – all of which are out of town except the 3 in the elevator.

To many plot holes. It annoyed me.