They’ve been mailed party favours in advance, including tabs of ecstasy they decide to take. Four groups of friends, housebound due to the pandemic, their meet-up in Vegas curtailed, assemble on Zoom in an attempt to recreate the experience. A point it makes with the subtlety of a Rottweiler banging a hammer.ĭecent premise, this. Placing a selection of people from all walks of life in an elevator, the film attempts to say something poignant about racism and how it is fear that drives us apart. Directed by Mostafa Keshvari on just one camera, the trailer was ready by March 8, 2020. This Canadian low-budget offering was in production even before the country went into lockdown. We watched everything brought forth, so you don’t have to.
After all, the renewed success of Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller Contagion in the early days of the pandemic proved there was an audience for frights that intersected with real world events. More recently, the rise of filmmakers like Jordan Peele provide comment on the racial prejudices that linger today.Īnd so it was no surprise that when COVID hit the world 12 months ago, horror filmmakers looked at the pandemonium dominating headlines and thought: ‘Hmmmm’.
The slasher movies of the 1980s tell us much about the moral panic regarding teenage promiscuity that reigned under Regan rule. 1956’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was as much about the West’s fear of communism as it was creatures from outer space. The tattered landscape of America’s Great Depression is seen all through 1931’s Frankenstein. Horror movies have a long, unsettling, even poignant tradition of reflecting societal fears.
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