Devil Page #2

Synopsis: In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case. Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them. Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly.
Director(s): John Erick Dowdle
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
PG-13
Year:
2010
80 min
$33,583,175
Website
4,293 Views


Get off me!

Sorry.

What's wrong

with you, man?

When I was younger, my

brother locked me in a trunk

for six hours.

I have trouble

with tight spaces.

Oh, great.

Come on.

Can we get out

through that?

What are you gonna do?

Shimmy up the cables?

You'll be a lot safer

in here.

Anybody know where the

bathroom is in this thing?

Did it work?

Nope, they're still stuck.

Let me go check the

mains in the basement.

All right, thanks a lot. Wow.

What's going on?

You know that

window on 35?

Yeah.

Looks like somebody might

have jumped through it.

Today?

Yeah.

This morning.

Thanks for

bearing with us, people.

We should get you back

on line in a few minutes.

It's been minutes.

How long is it

going to take?

When we get out of here,

you're gonna need a good rest.

"Mattress Mania"?

That's us. Everybody's had their

mattress too long. Am I right?

You didn't follow that advice

about flipping it every few months

and now you've

worn a groove into it,

and you think,

"Well, I'm used to it.

"So, hey. But I do

miss the way it felt

"when it came

fresh out of that bag. "

Look at those shoes, they've

been through the mill.

They're saying, "Someone deserves

a better place to lie down. "

Are you

insulting my shoes?

The point is, a new mattress will

cost a lot less than you think.

You don't have to be

as well-off as this one.

I'm not that well-off.

What makes me good

at selling mattresses

is I can look

at a person's clothes

and know exactly how much

they can afford to spend.

And you, lady,

you're no Super Sleeper.

Oh, my God. They keep playing

this song over and over and over.

Can't they just

turn the music off?

Did you just

touch my ass?

What?

You wish, sweetheart.

I don't know who you think you

are, but keep your hands off me.

Whatever.

Oh!

They must be working

on the lights again.

Hey, Dwight.

Dwight.

I'm here.

I'm heading into the pit.

They just lost power in

number six again. Is that you?

No, you can't do that

from here, D.L.

Huh.

That's strange.

I'm looking at

elevator six right now.

I can't see

anything wrong with it.

The lights keep shorting out.

The passengers are getting scared.

See if this helps.

Come on, come on.

Oh, God.

Come on, come on.

Anything?

No. No change.

The only other thing

I can think to do

would be going back up

to the roof, climbing down

and resetting

the car manually.

Yeah, yeah. Good. Do that, do

that. Call me when you get there.

All right.

Hey.

What?

All right.

Get out of here.

Off you go. Off you go. There you go.

Oh!

Sh*t!

"Inspected by G. Carson. "

What was that?

What?

I thought I heard...

Ah!

Sh*t.

Are you all right?

I'm just...

I think someone pulled

my blouse. I'm... I'm...

You're bleeding.

Here. Here. Stand up.

Let me help you.

I think I got cut.

What's going on

in there?

I don't know.

They're just scared.

I think

that lady got hurt.

Did she?

Yeah, see that?

What in the world?

Oh, my God.

What's he saying?

I can't tell

what he's saying.

I can't tell what

you're trying to say.

Turn off the...

Turn off the music!

Maybe they don't

like the music.

The music's still on?

Yeah.

Turn it off. It's

probably driving them nuts.

Okay. How?

There's a kill switch

right behind the...

Right under the key box.

Thank you!

What happened to her?

It feels like

something bit me.

Wait, wait. Does anybody

have anything sharp on them

that might have cut her,

she might have cut herself on? No.

Why you got

blood on you, man?

She fell into me.

So you cut her?

What? No. No, something

must have happened to her

and then she fell into me.

She probably

did it to herself!

Come on!

Bit her own back?

You think this is a bite?

No, nobody got bit.

What else could

have done that?

I'll tell you.

I don't know.

A serrated blade

could have.

You wouldn't happen

to have a knife with

a serrated blade

on you, would you?

No.

Okay. You mind if we

search your pockets?

Yes, I do mind.

You mind if we search yours?

Go right ahead.

Maybe she has

a serrated blade on her!

Are you seriously suggesting

that I would do this to myself?

I don't know.

Give me another reason

to kick your ass.

Please, bro,

take it easy, okay?

Bro?

I'm not your bro.

Can you turn

towards the camera

and show us what

happened to you, please?

Oh, my God.

Whoa!

Okay, we gotta

call the police.

We have a possible 240

at 333 Locust Street.

gotta be right around...

...here.

Strange.

right outside. Put me on it.

Copy that, 602.

That's convenient.

I don't make the calls,

they just come for me.

Go.

Markowitz!

Hey, how's

your girlfriend?

Shut up.

What are you doing?

I thought I saw something.

What do you mean?

Like what?

Something.

Okay.

You see it?

Yeah, yeah.

Look, that's just...

That's just

grain in the image.

That's, you know...

It's a mistake.

It's like when people see

Jesus in a pancake or something.

No. No. No.

Ramirez. Ramirez, you're

freaking me out. Come on.

Hey, hey.

Hey, listen to me.

We need to convey calm. These

people are relying on us, okay?

So stop this sh*t

right now.

Come on.

Come on!

I don't even know

why we're trying this.

We're in the express shaft.

There's not gonna be another

opening till the 23rd floor.

Maybe we're close.

Could this elevator fall?

I doubt it.

Because we gotta be 20 floors

up, just dangling over nothing.

Can we stop talking

about this, please?

One more time.

On three. One...

Oh, no, no, no.

Stay away from me, man.

I can help. I want to

get out of here, too.

Why don't you sit your creepy

ass down in the corner over there?

We can all

keep an eye on you.

Are you ready? On three.

One, two...

Three.

I'm just over here.

And why do you think

this might be an assault?

She seemed to be having words

with one of the other passengers

just before it happened,

and now it looks like they're

all keeping an eye on him.

Which guy?

That guy, right there.

Do we have communication?

Yeah, we have

an open line here.

You can talk,

but we can't hear.

Hello, everyone. This is

Detective Bowden, Philadelphia P.D.

We're working hard to get you out

of there. Shouldn't be much longer.

Please just remain calm.

How soon till we get in?

Engineer's

working on it now.

Usually, we get these

things going pretty quick.

This engineer work for you

guys or the elevator company?

Works for us.

Okay.

Call the elevator company

and have them

send someone, okay?

And have the Fire Department

send some guys.

You got it.

At least one of your staff is aboard.

Oh, yeah, the guard there,

he's a temp, actually.

Ben something. I don't know.

He started yesterday.

Okay. Call the temp agency and

get all the info they have on him.

And the others?

We don't have names

for the others.

What?

He should see the face.

No.

What face?

No. Nothing.

I saw a face.

Look, there's no face.

Tell him about the face.

No. Look, Ramirez is kind of

religious. Just ignore him. Trust me.

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