ATM (2012 film)

ATM
theatrical release poster
Directed by David Brooks
Produced by Paul Brooks
Peter Safran
Sarah Pineau (Eva Alexander)
Screenplay by Chris Sparling
Story by Chris Sparling
Ron Tippe
Starring Brian Geraghty
Alice Eve
Josh Peck
Music by David Buckley
Cinematography Bengt Jonsson
Edited by David Brooks
Production
company
Distributed by IFC Films
Release date
  • April 6, 2012 (2012-04-06)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3 million
Box office $1 million[1]

ATM is a 2012 American horror thriller film directed by David Brooks and starring Brian Geraghty, Alice Eve, and Josh Peck. The films centers on three people trapped in an ATM booth by a psychopathic hooded figure.

Plot

David Hargrove (Brian Geraghty) is a stockbroker having trouble asking out his co-worker Emily Brandt (Alice Eve), who is resigning for a position with the MPO. At a Christmas party, David offers to drop Emily home. Reluctantly, David also agrees to drive home his other co-worker Corey Thompson (Josh Peck), who accompanies them. During the car ride at midnight, Corey forces David to stop at a local ATM booth, needing to withdraw cash to buy pizza at a restaurant.

David spites Corey by parking some distance away, making him walk. However, David and Emily join Corey inside when he encounters card problems. When the three are about to leave, they spot a hooded figure (Mike O'Brian) in a parka coat lurking outside in the parking lot. They panic and Corey suggests they return to the car, but David and Emily suspect the figure to be a robber. They also discover he cannot enter without an ATM card.

When the hooded man kills a dog walker, they attempt to phone the police, only to realize that their cellphones were left in the car. The hooded man shuts down the booth's heater, rendering the booth cold to match the weather. David opts to negotiate their safety by giving the killer $500, earrings and a watch. He uses this to escape to his car, where he finds out that wires are severed, and the car cannot start. David attempts to call 911 but is attacked by the pursuing figure. He accidentally drops the phone in his attempt to escape from the hooded man.

Trying to attract assistance, Emily then uses her lipstick to write "HELP" on the booth's window, as the hooded figure tidies the scene outside. David, Emily and Corey are freezing when a security guard (Ernesto Griffith) locates them. When the guard tries to call the cops, the hooded man beats him to death using a tire iron from David's car trunk, leaving the three witnesses in shock. When a man with a similar coat abruptly enters the booth, he is subdued and killed by David and Corey, but is later revealed to be only an innocent janitor. Frustrated, Corey takes the janitor's coat and leaves, but gets caught and stabbed by the hooded man, and seemingly killed.

After several hours, David and Emily realize Corey is still alive. They retrieve him from outside, narrowly managing to return to the booth before the hooded man can get to them. The hooded man then blocks the booth door with David's car and tries to freeze them to death, by filling the booth with cold water. Corey eventually dies of blood loss and hypothermia. David lifts Emily on his shoulders to successfully trigger the fire sprinkler system alarm using the janitor's lighter, a trash can, and some paper; but David slipped, cause Emily falls and fatally snaps her neck.

Relentless, the hooded man sends the security guard's car into David's car, which slams into the booth and breaks it down. Angered, David improvises a Molotov cocktail and throws it at the hooded killer, but the figure he sets ablaze turns out to be the dead security guard in a parka coat. The police arrive but David is arrested as the hooded man hides himself. As David is driven away, he sees many unknown figures wearing parka coats in the crowd at the crime scene. The killer among the crowd spies on David and leaves the scene. The police recover surveillance recordings of the events within the ATM booth, but it is made clear the killer had planned his actions so as not to appear in the footage, framing David for the killer's crimes. The killer has also planted other evidence against David. In the final scene of the film, the hooded man, whose face is still unseen, returns to his headquarters, where he begins to map out similar attacks on a mini-mart, a farm house, and other ATMs.

Cast

  • Brian Geraghty as David Hargrove - A stockbroker who seems to have trouble with work, especially when a phone call with his customer "Mr. Dean" ended.
  • Alice Eve as Emily Brandt - David's love-interest and co-worker.
  • Josh Peck as Corey Thompson - David's lazy best friend and other co-worker.
  • Mike O'Brian as The Man
  • Robert Huculak as Robert
  • Ernesto Griffith as Security Guard
  • Bryan Clark as Jerry
  • Daniel De Jaeger as Luke
  • Omar Khan as Christian
  • Aaron Hughes as Patrolman
  • Will Woytowich as Sargent
  • Glen Thompson as Harold

Production

Filming began September 2010 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Actress Margarita Levieva was set to play the female lead before being replaced by Alice Eve.[2]

Reception

On the review website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 9%, based on 22 reviews.[3]

Release

The film was released to video on demand services such as Comcast and Zune on March 6, 2012. On July 31, 2012, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray. Both formats feature the 90-minute R-rated version of the film as well as an 85-minute unrated Director's cut. They also both include a behind-the-scenes featurette and the trailer.

References

  1. ↑ "ATM (2012) - Box Office Mojo". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "'Buried' Writer Withdrawals Three Leads For 'ATM'". Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  3. ↑ "ATM". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
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