A woman is taking an elevator to her parking garage. A burly workman joins her, and shortly thereafter a second man enters the elevator, only this guy is covered in blood and in a state of panic. He claims monsters or possibly aliens have invaded the building and they must remain in the elevator to stay alive. Pretty soon, it becomes a battle of wits among the trio. David Hewlett, a familiar face from British and American movies and TV, plays the bloodied man. This short horror film is tense and scary, and a model for no-budget flicks. From the man who brought us CUBE. Warning: this is not a film for the squeamish. I haven't seen this much blood since I worked in a hospital emergency room on Saturday nights.

Before I start I just want to point out that this is my first movie review ever but when I saw this movie I was so stunned so I just had to review this little masterpiece. The movie was made on almost no budget and there was almost no special effects (exept a little blood)and it's only 20 minutes long but still it's an amazing movie. I'm not going to lie and say it's the best movie I have ever seen cause it's not but it's by far the best short movie I have ever seen so far in my entire life even though I always thought short movies was a bad thing this movie absolutely changes that thing. It's about two peoples in an elevator called Ellen and Ben (Vickie Papavs and Bruce McFee) that wants to go to the lowest floor on the building. But when they almost reached there destination a madman covered in blood called Hank (David Hewlett) shouts hold the elevator! He enters the elevator and he pushes the button to the highest floor. Ben says: What the f**k are you doing? Hank says that they gotta get to the highest floor on the building and barricade themselves and that the monster from Alien are killing every one outside the building. And thats basically the plot of this movie. it's very simple but then again it's a short movie and Vincenzo Natali the director of this movie pulled it of pretty good. But the must important part that makes this movie so good is David Hewlett's great acting. 8/10 A MUST SEE!

Two people get into a lift and are met by a madman who claims the monsters from the ALIEN movies are taking over the block . What can two people alone in a lift with a madman do to protect themselves ? It's said if you have a zero budget for a movie you can still write a script featuring three people in a lift . Guess what ? ELEVATED has a zero budget and features three people in a lift . Well maybe that's slightly untrue because a car park and a few walk ons appear in the last scene but this is a pretty good example of what can be done with no budget . The story itself is absolute nonsense and like most horror shorts we the audience are given no explanations whatsoever as to how the events came about but this doesn't really diminish the film itself , after all many short films are made for the simple reason to get the director and writer noticed at film festivalsI saw ELEVATED for the first and only time several years ago when it was broadcast on channel 4 . The fact that I could remember the title and be able to write a review off the top of my head says something about its quality

this is still one of my favorite short films.... it's so weird. you can watch it over and over and it's entertaining every time!! i don't know if was supposed to be funny, but these actors do such a great job of tearing into each other! check out 'cube' as well... done by the same director.