Coworkers Get Stuck in an Elevator But Things Turn For The Worse as They Learn More About Each Other

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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you a horror, drama film from 2019, titled Down.

00:06Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care. Jennifer is one of the last people left in the office on

00:11a Friday night. She's going to catch a plane to New York for the extended weekend to see her

00:15ex-fiancé for Valentine's Day, so she writes him an email. She doesn't want to be late for her

00:20flight, so she grabs a bunch of candy and leaves the office. Simultaneously, Guy is getting ready

00:25to leave work as well. They both end up waiting for the elevator at the same time. Jennifer gets

00:30on the 49th floor and he joins her on the 42nd. Guy immediately starts chatting with her and joking.

00:36She replies but doesn't seem interested in having a conversation. Guy shows her an etching on the

00:41wall when the elevator suddenly stops. He tries the keys and the alarm button, but nothing works

00:45even though the electricity in the elevator seems to still be on. Guy tries opening the door, though

00:50that doesn't work either. They try waving to the fully operational camera and still no one responds

00:55to their calls. To make matters worse, none of their phones has service because they are four

00:59stories underground. Jennifer wonders where the security for the building is, worried that she'll

01:04miss her flight. Fifteen minutes later, they try calling for help and banging on the door, but no

01:09one can hear them. Guy gets the idea that there might be an escape hatch so she awkwardly climbs on

01:14his shoulders and they check the elevator ceiling. She heard her hand a little banging on it, so he puts

01:18her down. One hour later, Jennifer realizes that she'll never catch her flight and even though Guy jokes to

01:24lighten the mood, she just curses everything and everyone out. They finally introduce each other and

01:29continue with the banter that Guy had started the moment he stepped on the elevator. Since Jennifer

01:33doesn't have any water in her thermos Guy offers her his bottle, but they joke that they should pop open

01:37the wine he had on him instead. Both of them realize that they have bottle openers in their bag and laugh

01:42about it. They don't open the wine, but she does accept his water. As a consolation prize for not having any

01:48actual food, Jennifer gives Guy some of the candy. She thinks they should save their rations though

01:52because they might end up stuck in the elevator until Tuesday. Four hours later, Jennifer has to

01:57pee and she desperately tries to hold it in because she's too embarrassed to do it in front of Guy.

02:01He tells her to go in the corner over his coat and when she says no, Guy suggests she relieves herself

02:06in her thermos. She makes him close his eyes and cover his ears. Guy also begins to sing and she

02:11finally pees. After that, she adds to the drawing on the elevator wall. Sometime later, they play a game

02:18and begin talking about more personal things. Guy tells her that he has no one that'll be looking for him

02:22because he's too obsessed with his job. Jennifer says she's the same. She tells him that she wanted to

02:28surprise someone in New York, but that he probably didn't even want her to come. Guy figures that it's

02:32about time that they open the wine and hands it to her. They drink to not being dead yet. Much later,

02:38they're keeping occupied by drawing each other and getting closer. Guy confesses that he'd actually seen

02:43her before in the office building, he just didn't share that because he didn't want to sound like a

02:47stalker and make her feel uncomfortable. She doesn't take it as bad as he thought she would, in fact,

02:52she laughs about it. They finish their drawings and show them to each other. Her portrait of him is

02:56more on the jokey side while he's is more serious. Jennifer apologizes and takes a photo of the drawing,

03:02saying she'll make it her profile picture if they survive. Next, they talk about food and since they're

03:07both hungry, she asks Guy to change the subject. He lists off different things and she chooses to talk

03:12about making love, gets up, and turns her camera on him, asking about the dirtiest place he's made

03:17love before. Guy's a little shy, so she shares her story first. Jennifer tells him a story about one of

03:23her ex-boyfriends in college and the time they slept together in a library. When it's Guy's turn,

03:28he still doesn't feel like sharing his story because he thinks he doesn't have an interesting one.

03:32Jennifer tells him to make up one. Guy tells a story about a hot girl that wanted to be with him

03:37during a work picnic. He says that they got drunk, got in the car and she begins to undress while he's

03:42driving. Guy gets weird and uncomfortable again, telling Jennifer that he got aroused and he had

03:46to stop. He apologizes because he thinks he crossed a line, but she says that it's cool. Guy approaches

03:52her awkwardly and kisses her, then begins to undress her. They make love in the elevator. After,

03:57Guy tells her that he could fall in love with her, but she gets away from him. Jennifer tells him that

04:02she wants to get back together with her ex. That was the reason why she wanted to go to New York and

04:06surprise him, to patch things up and make everything better. Unlike Guy, she thinks that even though

04:11their encounter was fun, they should just keep it casual because what she has with her ex is real.

04:16Jennifer is honest with him about how she feels and what her previous relationship was like.

04:21Guy, on the other hand, thinks that they connected and that her ex doesn't deserve her. She gets mad

04:26because she clearly still loves him and tells Guy that when they get out of the elevator they'll just

04:29go back to their separate lives. Guy keeps insisting that they were meant to be together and he begins

04:34to cry because he feels alienated even though they're locked in a box together. Suddenly, something flips in

04:39him and Jennifer can feel it happen. Guy begins to tell her the truth about who he is. He lied to her

04:44about where he worked and about his name too. The man tells her that he didn't just notice her,

04:49but that he actually saw her every single day at work. He takes out his phone and shows Jennifer's

04:53security photos he has on it of her, listing out the times and dates when it was. The guy even has a

04:58video of her getting into the elevator that night. Jennifer is afraid. He tells her that he's actually the

05:03building's security guard and gets angry when he explains that no one ever notices people like him.

05:08She didn't even recognize him even though he works at the front desk. He thinks that he knows her more

05:13than her ex and tells her that he planned everything that happened that night. The man takes out a key

05:17and unblocks the elevator. Jennifer can't believe what he did to her and says that she'll call the

05:21cops and that he'll rot in jail. He doesn't like that so he grabs her and they begin to struggle.

05:26Flailing her legs during the fight, Jennifer breaks the elevator key. They continue to fight and she

05:31knocks him out with her shoe. Jennifer is afraid that she killed him so she approaches him to check when he

05:36suddenly jumps up and knocks her down. They both remain unconscious in the elevator.

05:41After a while, Jennifer wakes to find the man conscious already. She asks him why he did it.

05:46His reasoning is that he wanted to get her away from everything so that they could connect on a

05:50human level. He says that they didn't just have a date but an entire relationship in the weekend

05:54stuck in the elevator. Jennifer thinks that he's not going to get away with it because someone will

05:59surely come to get them out. Unfortunately, she finds out that the guy has taken all the shifts for

06:03that weekend and the two other guards won't be coming in until the extended weekend is over on

06:07Tuesday. Jennifer asks what he'll do and he says that he would rather kill her than go back to prison.

06:12He says that he never forced her to do anything, but Jennifer tells him that he kidnapped her.

06:17That sends him into a rage spiral. When he calms down he opens the present that Jennifer had bought

06:21for her ex-fiancé. He finds a shirt and a box in the bag. The guy puts the shirt on and tells Jennifer to

06:27open the rest of the present. Jennifer opens the box to reveal cigars, complete with the necessary

06:32tools, like the cigar scissors and lighter. He lights a cigar and taunts Jennifer further,

06:37even saying that she could have gotten her ex back with all the nice gifts. In a gust of irony,

06:42he wishes her a happy Valentine's Day. Sometime later, the guy apologizes to Jennifer for scaring

06:47her and asks her if they can reconcile. He asks for another chance and tells her that she doesn't have

06:52to answer right away, but to think about it. The guy comments on the travel ad that's playing in the

06:56elevator, saying that the people in the video look happy together. He tells Jennifer that he'll take

07:01her to the resort from the ad one day. He's bothered by the neon light in the elevator that

07:05isn't working so he breaks it with Jennifer's thermos. The guy realizes that the light bulbs

07:09under the ceiling panels must get replaced sometime. He thinks that he can get that panel off and get

07:14out of the elevator thought there. As he breaks it open with the thermos, Jennifer stands up next to him.

07:19He asks Jennifer to give him a boost to get up there, promising that he'll come back for her.

07:24However, Jennifer thinks it would be easier if he gives her a boost because she doesn't have enough

07:28strength to do it. He doubts that she'll want to come back for him and she'll call the cops.

07:32Jennifer tells him everything that he wants to hear and convinces him to give her the boost.

07:36She gets on his shoulders and pulls out of the elevator. The guy tells her where the ladder and

07:41the door are, happy that they finally managed to escape. Jennifer turns around and gives him the

07:45middle finger, pissing him off. As she climbs the ladder, he finds a way to get out of the elevator too.

07:51The guy binds two pieces of clothing together and throws them over the elevator beam.

07:55Jennifer is already moving towards the door as he starts climbing up. He tells her that she'd better

08:00run because now she's going to die. Jennifer gets close to the door when he already reaches the level

08:04she's on and follows her. She opens the door and screams for help, then he suddenly garbs her and

08:09hurls both of them back in the elevator. They both fall unconscious. Jennifer wakes up first and sees the

08:15fire sprinklers, conceiving a new plan to get herself out. She tries to activate the fire alarms by

08:20lighting a cigar, but when she doesn't manage that she starts a small fire. As the elevator fills with

08:25smoke the guy wakes up and she punches him, breaking his nose. Jennifer succeeds in restraining him with

08:30a piece of clothing. He tells her that the fire alarm won't come on, but that they'll just get soaked

08:35and electrocuted. Jennifer threatens to seriously hurt him and makes him confess to everything that he's done

08:40to her. She turns her camera on and shoots herself explaining what she knows about what happened.

08:45Jennifer turns the camera on him and asks for his real name. He says he's called John Deakins.

08:50John confesses that he got them stuck in the elevator on purpose. He even etched the drawing

08:54on the wall. That Friday he used the key to stop the elevator while she wasn't looking. Jennifer makes

09:00him admit to trapping her in the elevator. John admits to trapping and kidnapping her. She keeps

09:05questioning him, so he confesses to the camera everything that he did to her, from hitting her head on the

09:09ground to throwing her against the wall. Jennifer asks why and John says that he just wanted a date

09:14with her. If he had asked her out normally, she would have turned him down. John tells her who he

09:19was before he became a security guard. He was an accountant that worked for a big firm and was a

09:24real hotshot. John tells her that the story about the girl in the car was true, but that it ended

09:28differently than what he implied. He ended up missing an exit and drove straight into a ravine. The car flipped

09:34seven times until it was stopped by a tree. The girl was dead on impact. John got only six

09:39months in jail because he had the resources to keep himself out. When he got out, the only job he

09:44could get was as a security guard. After a few months, he wanted to be himself again and feel

09:49it for a little while. Jennifer still doesn't understand why he chose her. He says that it's

09:54because she's great. Monday arrives and they're still trapped. One of the other security guards

09:59Eddie takes his new girlfriend to the building to show her the roof. When they walk inside he looks

10:03for John and when he doesn't find him, he checks the security monitors. Eddie sees John and

10:08Jennifer are stuck in the elevator, waking them both up. Jennifer begs him to get them out of

10:12there. He tells her that he'll come down and get them out, while his girlfriend falls asleep on the

10:17couch. Eddie gets to the elevator and pulls the doors open with a crowbar. Jennifer wants to get

10:22out, but he tells her that he needs to open the doors completely first and moves away. Suddenly,

10:27John knocks her out. He tells Eddie that he's there and he gives John his keys. John tells him that it's

10:32not working and Eddie says he'll climb in to help them. He gets stuck in the elevator and sees that

10:37something has happened inside when John turns on the elevator and cuts him in half. He knocks

10:41Jennifer out again, then takes her to his car and puts her in the trunk. John goes back into the

10:46building and disposes of Eddie's body and his clothes. He cleans himself up and puts on his

10:51uniform, sliding a cigar into his pocket. When John gets to the front desk, he deletes all of the videos

10:56from the security cameras. Eddie's girlfriend wakes up and John kills her too, then drops her in the

11:01shaft as well. John gets to his car and takes Jennifer to a secluded location to dispose of her.

11:06He pours gasoline into a dumpster to prepare. Before he opens the trunk, John tells Jennifer

11:12that he still likes her and it's unfortunate they couldn't be together. Jennifer pretends that she's

11:16dead and when John goes over to the dumpster she hits him over the head, gets in the car and starts

11:20driving. At one point she stops when she finds the lit cigar in the tray. Jennifer starts backing up the

11:26car and rams into a terrified John. She comes out and sees that he's in the dumpster. Jennifer relights

11:31the cigar and walks away, then she flicks the lit butt into the dumpster, burning John alive.

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