CO - If a movie is starkly named ATM, you can be it’s not a whimsical comedy about the quirky characters who withdraw money. It is a high concept thriller set in the familiar everyday location. Stockbroker David (Brian Geraghty) and his two office friends (Josh Peck and Alice Eve) stop at an ATM in an isolated parking lot when a killer appears outside trapping them in the freezing bank. We got a chance to talk with director David Brooks by phone in anticipation of ATM’s theatrical release on April 6, after a month on VOD. Some spoilers follow, but none that aren’t already given away in the trailer.
Arcee "Dr Chris realizes that the current offerings of horror movies in theaters in recent times has been prety lax at best. Some of the movies that were supposed to scare the pants off of us merely caused us to cringe or tweak and didn't deliver on the promised chills and thrills. So Dr Chris has come up with a suitable alternative for our readers who were expecting more from this month leading up to Halloween and have been let down. He has created a quick list of 5 films that are all on DVD and Blu-ray and worth chcking out if you don't like whats in theaters for horror right now."
And this list starts out with My Bloody Valentine 3D... so obviously this is a strong list from someone that knows a lot about scary films.
I'm pretty sure I don't want anything else that Dr. Chris prescribes.
A movie that underachieves at the basic conceptual level; like an awkward psychological torture test that repeatedly demonstrates shaky logic and severe gaps in tension and plausibility.
Full review by Chris Pandolfi.
Sean of The Daily Rotation wrote, "ATM, the latest thriller from the mind of Chris Sparling (the writer of Buried) takes place mostly in an ATM booth late at night. While the concepts may be compared, Sparling does enough in ATM to separate it from Buried, but again the ending relies on the end reveal, and here, it’s severely underdeveloped. I’m sure the script (a Black List script like Buried) is an interesting read, but as a whole film, it fails on more than a few levels."
