I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE EXTRA: Amityville Elevator (2023)

EDITOR’S NOTE: The I Hope You Suffer podcast said that “Since everybody is doing these movie challenges now, we made the only one worth doing.” Bring the pain.

Nick Box claims that this is a re-imagining of his earlier film Elevator to Insanity, which itself was a spoof of elevated horror, and that this makes fun of both that genre and Amityville movies.

A photographer (Gus Capucci) gets on an elevator that he rides for the entire movie.

That’s it.

Sure, sometimes a woman (Bryonny) gets on and gets off, but they never interact. There’s also a ballet dancer who he sees when the doors open and also a lady that screams at him for six minutes. That’s right. Six entire minutes of one scream.

Sometimes, he escapes for a moment, then hears a whole bunch of phrases like “Believe in yourself” before he’s back on the elevator, the woman gets on and off, and we watch him stand there for around forty minutes.

Finally, he gets to the floor he should be on and takes photos of corpses, just in time for a jump scare. Someone else gets in the elevator as the movie comes to a close.

This has a $3000 budget and I have no idea where it went. It’s like with each movie, Nick Box is trying to make the worst Amityville sequel, which is impossible because you can’t go lower than zero, right?

I’m waiting for a good Amityville and this supposedly makes fun of movies that just put that name before another movie and yet, it does the same thing. When I’m dying, I’ll remember this movie and hate that I wasted moments of my life watching it.

You can watch this on YouTube but please don’t.