ATM
Tags: murder

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with an unknown man drawing and organizing diagrams to the song Silent Night. He picks up his parka coat and leaves.While attending an office Christmas party, David Hargrove (Brian Geraghty) offers to drive his co-worker, Emily Brandt (Alice Eve), home. Reluctantly, he allows his slacker friend Corey Thompson (Josh Peck) to accompany them. On the car ride, Corey asks David to pull up at a 24-hour ATM kiosk. Corey and David enter the ATM to withdraw money, and shortly after, Emily joins them. She tells David the clicker for the car lock isn't working. When the three are about to leave, they turn to see a hooded figure lurking outside who is only known as THE MAN (Mike O'Brian). While Corey suggests they return to the car, Emily and David are reluctant, believing the figure to be a robber. A guy walking his dog, Robert (Robert Huculak), comes into the parking lot walking his dog. The Man walks up to Robert and violently beats him to death like it's nothing. The three watch in horror. They want to call the police, but Corey lost his phone at the party, Davids phone battery is dead, and Emily's phone is in her purse in the car. They try to set off an alarm by banging on the ATM, but nothing happens. While the three are panicking inside, The Man sees them gesturing towards the car. He goes to the car, opens the door, pops the trunk, and removes a few items; a folding lawn chair, a tire iron, and a toolbox. He takes the toolbox and walks around to the back of the kiosk. He cuts off the heat and lights.David decides to reason with The Man. He walks out and attempts to give him an envelope with 500 dollars and other valuables in return for their safety. While giving the money to the hooded figure, he runs back to the car, he grabs Emily's purse, pulls out her phone, and starts dialing 911 when The Man punches through the passenger side window with his gloved hand. He drags David out of the car and is about to kill him when Corey screams from the kiosk. This distracts The Man long enough for David to get up and run back. He drops Emily's phone that has 911 on the screen and just needs the send pressed. He turns back to get it, but The Man is gaining on him and he abandons the phone. David leaps back inside with Emily's purse. The Man stops about ten feet from the door then then walks over and picks up the envelope and Emily's cell phone. He tosses them into Davids trunk. Emily uses her lipstick to write "HELP" on the ATM's window.As the three begin to freeze, a Security Guard (Ernesto Griffith) comes to investigate. He parks his car a few dozen feet from the ATM and gets out. The three yell at him, but he can't hear them over the howling wind. He sees Robert's body and starts to call for help on his radio, but is beaten to death by The Man with the tire iron. The three are left hopeless. Emily starts becoming disoriented from the hypothermia.A few minutes later, a guy with a similar coat to The Man enters the kiosk. Corey and David manage to kill him by strangling him with a pen on a wire. They look outside and see the real Man standing there. They find out the man they killed was named Harold (Glen Thompson) and he stopped in on his way to work. They search him for a phone, but don't find one. Corey grows angry and tired. He takes Harold's coat and runs. He's tripped up by a wire The Man strung across between the car and the pole of an overhead light to create a perimeter. The Man stabs Corey with a screwdriver. He walks back around the kiosk and continues with his project when he spots a fire hose.More hours go by and the temperature continues to fall. David and Emily see that Corey is still alive. They run and grab him. Corey's leg is broken, but they all manage to return to the kiosk before The Man gets to them. Desperate, David tries again to set off an alarm and breaks the ATM camera. While David and Emily attempt to stop Corey's bleeding, The Man pushes David's car up to the door and blocks it from opening. The ATM kiosk begins to fill with cold water through the heating vents. Corey eventually dies of blood loss and hypothermia. David finds a lighter in one of Harold's pockets. He tosses paper into a wastebasket and starts a fire. Emily climbs on David's shoulders and manages to get the flame close enough to the fire alarm to trigger a loud alarm. David slips and Emily falls, smashing her head on a shelf and dies. The security guards car rams into David's car, which crashes through the wall.Angered, David uses Corey's bottle of tequila to create a Molotov Cocktail. He throws it at a hooded man sitting in the lawn chair, only to realize that its the dead Security Guard. The Man has disappeared. The cops come and arrest David. They find five bodies, the bank envelope full of money and valuables in the car trunk, and Emily's phone with 911 on the screen. They review the ATM video tape, but there's no sound and it looks as if David, Corey, and Emily were robbing the ATM and murdering witnesses. The Man is not seen on the footage. (The killer was very clever enough to not approach to within 25 feet of the ATM booth to avoid being seen on the booth's single security camera).In the final scene of the film, the hooded parka figure, his face still unseen, returns to his lair (a locker within a storage facility) where he presumably plans more ATM attacks by showing dozens of maps, blueprints, expert drawings of security camera at ATM booths and surrounding buildings, as well as their ranges and power outlets. It is strongly implied that this unknown and highly intelligent serial killer has been targeting innocent people who happened by ATM booths during late hours to terrorize, and eventually kill, them for months or possibly years now but leaving one survivor to take all the blame for his actions, in which Corey and Emily and all the passerbys that he killed that night were just his latest victims among so many, and David was just his latest fall guy.

Review: we all know from watching horror films, that there's at least one moment where the hero knocks the evil killer to the floor then just runs off, allowing him to get back up and chase them down all over again.
And in movies like this, it is often frustrating to watch when you know what is going to happen anyway.While the plot does not have serious errors, the story is an overall unsatisfactory work.
You can really tell that this movie had some good ideas in it but things aren't really thought out well enough and the movie is incredibly flawed, mostly due to its story.These sort of thrillers/horror movies set mostly at one location, are somewhat popular now days and this movie obviously tried to have a go at it as well and ride on the success of the genre.
Everything the ATM "stalker villain" does makes sense, because the 3 captives simply have zero.Watch this flick if you're a fan of "b" movies, or simply bored and want to pick it apart and cringe and a very bad script.
It stars annoying Josh Peck, good looking Brain Geragthy and a different kind of bombshell Alice Eve. ATM is about three co-workers (Eve, Peck and Geragthy) stop off at an ATM late one night and soon find themselves confined to an enclosed area made up of an ATM booth and car park by an unknown hooded killer lurking outside.
It wasn't the best, the acting was good, I enjoyed the plot, it wasn't as predictable as you'd think, the ending could of been done differently but if you enjoy 'edge of your seat' movies and have some free time I'd recommend giving it a watch!
The number of lame decisions and non-decisions by the 3 main characters manage to make most of the dumb ideas in horror/thriller movies you may have seen appear insignificant.
With your time, money and the inevitable headache you will feel the next day after beating your head against a hard surface for having sat through this mess.I've seen a lot of disappointing films but this is one of the very few that made me really, really angry for devoting a couple of hours of my time to watching it.Avoid.Oh, and to the people who are saying "Not as bad as the reviews would lead to to believe": I need to meet your dealer.
The premise is gimmicky no doubt, but Sparling had managed to turn a similar high-concept into a surprisingly tense and thrilling experience the last time round, so it isn't unreasonable to think that he could do the same with this movie.Alas, 'ATM' is not even half as smart as his previous 'Buried', with its three characters behaving so ridiculously that you end up rooting for their demise instead.
All three- David (Brian Geraghty), Emily (Alice Eve) and Corey (Josh Peck)- happen to be colleagues at the same investment bank on their way home from their company's annual Christmas party.
Following some narrative contrivance involving David's faulty card, all three co-workers end up in the ATM booth- trapped inside by said masked figure whom they watch stabbing a passerby to prove to them as well as the audience that he is no Santa Claus.
Sparling offers no clue, choosing instead to divulge a little more of his villain's methodical planning for a next ATM, hinting at the dreaded possibility of a sequel.To his credit, Brooks tries his best to maintain a tense atmosphere throughout, and there are a few effective thrilling moments in the film.
Nonetheless, both Brooks and the cast are let down by the loophole-ridden script that demands its audience throw all semblance of logic out the window.Like its confined setting, such a premise requires tight plotting- and given that Sparling knew as much in 'Buried', the flaws in 'ATM' could only be due to sloppiness.
How else would you explain why none of his characters thought to park their car right outside the ATM, instead of 100m away in the freezing cold weather?www.moviexclusive.com.
Some of the little intricacies/subplots of the first 90 minutes are absolutely squandered.Glad this was a 4rth redbox rental at only $1.13, or I would be upset.You'd be better off trying these first(low-budget horror of the last 5 years that are better than ATM): Frozen, The Collector, Some Guy Who Kills People, Eden Lake, Pontypool, Troll Hunter, Hatchet, Hatchet 2, Timber Falls, Behind the Mask, Marytrs, Tucker n Dale Vs. Evil, Trick Or Treat('07), or The House of The DevilNot that all those are great, but they're definitely better than this..
acting: very good, the people involved in this movie really made me believe they were scared out of their minds and desperately trying to find a way out of the situation.
4. the maniac: and last but not least, he did a good job, I liked his performance, only thing that was rather disappointing is the end, where...well...better if you check it out for yourself.So, now, dunno why all the hate, I for one am a HUGE horror fan, so I would hate to see this little gem of suspense and horror being left out of one's collection, trust me and the other guy, this movie kicks ass!
If you didn't know bad things were going to happen to these two (and a third friend), you probably wouldn't last past the first 15 minutes.But they end up at the ATM, and the film proper begins.
It has the usual horror movie head-scratchers -- nobody has a working cell phone, there is no emergency phone in the ATM, the killer can do things no human should be able to do, wild coincidences occur -- but what's good is that the three of them act like real people would act.
well, real.But the film drags a little -- it's pretty much a one-trick pony, and the director has a serious misstep by making the leads have a "romantic flirt" moment in the middle of the carnage which seems hopelessly and desperately out of place (luckily, it is very short-lived).But I liked the ending -- no silly twists or "big shocking surprises," just a real, legitimate ending to the movie that was definitely a little unexpected and works.So a mixed bag, but more good than bad, and worth checking out..
It's like they tried to improvise some events leading up to the fact that they are going to be trapped in an ATM, hoping that this will help us to get the know the characters, but as they are pretty much average stereotype males and females, I think that this was redundant.
As far as the plot is concerned, a lot of the reviewers complained about the plausibility of it and the decisions that have been made by prisoners of the ATM, you have to remember that this is a movie and something has to drive it forward, and everything can be easily explained with enough thinking.David, Corey and Emily are three coworkers having a good time at their company's party.
Once they enter it, their carefree night will turn into a fight for their lives, as a crazed murder places the chair in front of the ATM room and decides that no one is leaving it, alive...Check out my review site Rabbit-Reviews.com for movies that are worth watching, Rabbit out....
And when the three stop at an ATM booth, a serial killer sees the chance to strike.When I rented this at Redbox, the disc had the option of watching the theatrical version or Director's Cut, I choose the latter and noted that it was a bit shorter than the regular version (haven't seen both versions, I wager that it was to tighten up the film but I don't know)Be that as it may, I found the film to be tense enough, even if ridiculous.
I allowed my suspension of disbelief to run rampant and enjoyed the movie in return (up to a point) however the main characters simply would not doing dumb things which was a bit grating..
I was screaming out a lot of things before they even did them, but I feel like it would not be a bad movie to watch with kids or a date.
its funny how one mans poison is another mans pleasure, the first review of this film was terrible thats the guy from Brazil who thought the killer was going to drown them out, if you had listened carefully he was trying to freeze them out, yes i thought some of it could have been thought out better but i also thought it was a nail-biting and well acted film (apart from the friend who could have done with a course at acting school) besides that i enjoyed it very much, compared to a lot of dribble we have out there now its very watchable and atmospheric, i didn't really get the end part but a worthwhile effort all the same :)).
LOL!) has got to be one of the most contrived horror thrillers I have ever seen in my life.Travelling home from an office party, co-workers David Hargrove (Brian Geraghty), Emily Brandt (Alice Eve) and Corey Thompson (Josh Peck) stop off at an isolated ATM in the middle of an empty car park, only to be trapped in the glass booth when they are threatened by a violent stranger.
Having unconvincingly explained away the absence of working cellphones and given a pathetic reason for the trio parking the car so far away from the booth, writer Chris Sparling proceeds to have his characters act like complete morons for the next few hours, taking stupid risks, failing to apply logic to their situation, and in the film's most ridiculous scene, even killing a complete stranger in the mistaken belief that he is their attacker.Towards the end of the film, I was actually cheering the killer on, hoping that he would get to his victims and put an end to this garbage as soon as possible..
Yes, there are times where the situation does feel hokey but often more than not, I felt like I was trapped in this ATM with his characters which added to the suspense.
However, he is cold and calculative to the very end where you really feel the cruelness and awfulness of his actions.This is a flawed movie with a pretty basic plot and characters.
Just imagine a phone booth that is wider and is able to house two ATM machines and three people.Though Corey needs the money and goes in by himself in the beginning, the other two follow him in to see what is taking so long.
These questions can pretty much all be answered, with the exception of number three, with "there would be no movie." It's clear that Chris Sparling, the writer of another claustrophobic thriller, Buried, desperately wanted to make the premise and the idea work, but logic has to sort of take part in a late arrival so the film can work and last eighty-one minutes.
The film, also, ends about ten minutes shorter than it states, so stay put during the credits so you can watch more scenes of attempted backstory and try to decipher what the film wants to say.ATM has a fine script, a well utilized atmosphere, likable characters, but a questionable plot, hokey backstory, and a mild sense of logic.
So the concept of the movie is that 3 people visit an ATM (a US ATM thats more like a small shop rather than a hole in the wall) late at night - I must admit to feeling that I was headed towards another cliché horror/thriller when the 3 decide to go via the ATM thats miles away from civilisation but ATM was a not too shabby movie which did make me think about what I would do if in a similar situation but more importantly how would others I am with react.
He holds them hostage for the remainder of the film, dispatching anyone who might come to their aid and implying he will do it to them if they try to escape.Overall, while this wasn't a "classic," I think this was decently executed, had reasonably good suspense, and was worth the rental.
So, by staying out of the field of view, he would not have any eye witnesses, just like in the first murder, in the beginning of the movie.There is no video of the two cars being driven into the front of the booth, because as we saw, the video feed stopped recording when David went crazy and started beating up the machine with the trash can.The ending was quite nice.
That is the most basic thing ever, if someone is going kill you get away from them everyone in the world knows that except these moron retard characters and the moron retard producer and director, I must emphasize and reiterate that the people involved in this movie must all have low IQ and be blind.
I like Josh Peck from Drake and Josh, he was funny at the start of the movie, his acting was okay but I thought Alice Eve had the best performance.
Don't run to the car so we can escape because he's killing the dog guy, let's stand here and yell at the killer.And who parks 12 million miles away from an ATM when the parking lot is vacant and parking at the door makes more sense?
At a company function, David gets a final chance to hit on resigning colleague Emily (Alice Eve) and gets an opportunity in sending her back, but not without Corey in tow and request to stop by an ATM to obtain money for a pizza supper.And then the madness begins, with The Man (hooded at all times save for his eyes) playing psychological mind games with the trio, who have so far conveniently left their warmer clothes, communication devices and parked their car a distance away from the ATM booth rather than to drive up right beside it.
If the acting was sub-par, I would have stopped watching, instead of building up my hope that the ending would be good enough to somewhat excuse all the exceedingly dumb plot holes and the utter stupidity of the characters.
I really did try to find some excuse to like this movie, but it wouldn't let me.There are plenty of reviews here that can give you 1,000 reasons not to watch ATM, but I'm here to tell the people like me who love the old masked slashers and are hoping to find some glimmer of suspense or character development, don't.
The ending sucked, plus of course the parts where the characters did stupid stuff like parking the car a long ways away from the ATM and not running away when they had the chance.
As I said before, it's 'hit and miss'.The plot also carries this lack of solidity; at times, original ideas are introduced and the movie seems like it may become engrossing, however at other points the amount of flaws in storytelling and issues in characterisation lower the standard of viewing.Overall, there is little I can really say about "ATM", other than it is a disappointing movie that, although is flawed and far from great, does have some good moments and is a fairly enjoyable movie throughout the majority of its duration.
Awesome & Innovative...and I tend to NOT watch horror, with that stated it is unlike anything I've seen before & despite some bad reviews from folks whom probably think Chucky part 12 is a thriller or horror...it takes a lot of imagination to pull this film off...and those involve did!
I'll give you some examples:-parking your car fifty yards from an ATM in sub-zero weather, even though you could have parked right in front, is completely unrealistic; -spending five hours in -5 Fahrenheit wearing only a shirt will either kill you or render you completely immobile and unintelligible with pneumonia, hypothermia, frostbite, etc; -filling a room with water makes little sense when one can just OPEN THE DOOR A BIT; -a security guard asking "are you okay?" twenty times, even though the occupants have clearly and visibly written "HELP" on the window is beyond ridiculous; -the police arrest the blonde guy, but who cares?
Maybe..for a start...Anyway, the film is boring and predictable (except that you're hoping for some sort of brilliant twist or SOMETHING worth your time at the end), a modest 3M$ budget can't excuse a horrible script, with horrible contrived plot manipulation ( the one character randomly slips when he tries to run to get help?
Yes, they are that stupid)***Apart from that the acting is OK and the ending is not THAT bad but that's about it.Like I said, if you've seen the trailer, you know most of the movie.
well as i said everything happens inside an ATM cabin, the only thing i would correct to this movie is that they could develop some kind of history of the killer, but the plot is quite exiting i think, and josh peck does a pretty nice role of desperate boy in a death or alive situation, the other bad thing is the annoying girl they could make a lot more interesting her role..
This comment contains spoiler so please don't read it before watching the movie.The reason I gave 5 points was the very few but quite good ideas of this film, e.g. the ATM scene and the bad guy going for creating the "perfect crime" just for the hell of it, I guess (we will not learn about his motivation, but this one came to my mind at the end of the movie).
Parka's are a very 90's sort of thing, in regard to horror movies.This guy is relentless, he keeps 3 people trapped in an ATM kiosk for HOURS and ultimately tries to drown them all.