Blackout (2007/II)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Rigoberto Castañeda

Writer:

Ed Dougherty (screenplay)

Release Date:

29 May 2008 (Russia)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Hope is not on the way

Plot:

Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare. |

Plot Keywords:

Elevator | Camera Phone | Hit By Car | Student | Trapped In Elevator

Cast

Amber Tamblyn	...	Claudia
Aidan Gillen	...	Karl
Armie Hammer	...	Tommy
Katie Stuart	...	Francesca
Eloisa Bennetts	...	Nikky
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jim Arnold	...	Homeless man
Claudia Bassols	...	Pretty Woman
Peggy Batchelor	...	Allison
Leslie Charles
Kate Jennings Grant	...	Sister-in-law
Erin Guzowski	...	Karl's Wife
Luana Lauverski	...	Nurse
Jane Partridge	...	Chloe
Emma Prescott	...	Nikki Madox
Mabel Rivera	...	Claudia's Grandmother
Fiona Rycroft	...	Nurse
Andrew Tarbet	...	Doctor
Diana Van Proosdy	...	Lana

MPAA:

Rated R for sadistic bloody violence including a rape, nudity and language.

Runtime:

Germany:120 min (European Film Market) | 81 min (PAL DVD version) | USA:85 min (DVD release)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Netherlands:16 | UK:18 (cut) | South Korea:18 | Germany:18 | Chile:18

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Morabito Picture Company

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: On Elizabeth's tombstone it says her last name is "Madox", but when we see her husband Karl in his car there's a closeup of his ID which says his last name is "Maddox".

Movie Connections:

References "The Golden Girls" (1985)

Another poor screenplay...another poor movie...

Lacking a storyline, it must be difficult to develop a movie...Add poor acting to an incredibly poor screenplay and the result is 'Blackout'...The entire storyline of this movie could have (should have) been a single scene within a real movie... I'm not sure what the point to this movie was ...or if it even tried to have one, except perhaps that even semi-ordinary people can be horrible human beings...Three losers get stuck on a rickety old elevator and one is a murderous a-hole, while the other two are simply uncaring jerks...This one's not even worth a watch on TV...Just a poor, long, drawn-out scene that literally 'goes nowhere'...(except down)...Avoid this one...just wait on the next one...it would have to be better than this...