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HELLEVATOR: THE BOTTLED FOOLS (2025)
LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 UNITS ONLY
Directed by Hiroki Yamaguchi
Starring Luchino Fukisaki, Yoshiichi Kawada, Ryôsuke Koshiba
Set almost entirely in a transport elevator that shuttles citizens between futuristic towns stacked on top of one another, a hellish scenario unfolds. Amongst the postmodern masses that squeeze into the public transport: cell-phone addicted businessmen clones, a child with a human brain as a pet, leather clad, militant law enforcers, and a 17-year-old schoolgirl (Luchina Fukisaki) with the psychic ability to receive visions from each person on board. Oppressive paranoia builds when a pair of convicted homicidal rapists join the ride and escape their abusive police escorts. Claustrophobic sets, a rabble of strange and detailed characters and bursts of excessive violence set the stage for an explosion of chaos in this psychologically charged dystopian sci-fi horror.
The brain-child of wunderkind director Hiroki Yamaguchi; who completed the film aged only 23 before it became the hit of the 2004 Fantasia Film Festival; Hellevator: The Bottled Fools (aka Gusha no bindume) makes its worldwide Blu-ray debut and is presented here in a newly graded master in a much-treasured special edition!
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (first pressing only)
- Double-walled slipcase with brand new artwork by Ilan Sheady of Uncle Frank Productions
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing by Pieter-Jan Van Haecke and Jonathan Clements
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Presented in a newly graded and upscaled remaster approved by the Director and cinematographer
- Uncompressed English DTS-HD Master Audio 2:0
- NEW Social Order and Psychological Collapse in Hellevator: Video Essay by Robert Edwards
- NEW Fatal Floors - Elevated Horror: Video Essay on Elevators in Horror Cinema by Darrell Buxton
- NEW Interview with Director Hiroki Yamaguchi
- NEW Making-of featurette
- NEW Opening Day Stage Greeting featurette
- Image Gallery
- NEW Pilot trailer
- NEW Unreleased Trailer
- Reversible Sleeve featuring two artwork choices
- Japanese language with English Subtitles
(REGION B)
