The true story of Elisa Lam, a Canadian student who went missing back in 2013 and was later found dead inside the water tank atop a Los Angeles hotel, is one of the most bone chilling you’ll come across here on the Internet. There’s a good chance you’ve seen the unsettling elevator footage from days prior to Lam’s death, which shows her acting in a very unnatural manner.
To this day, no one is quite sure what happened to the young student.
We’ve just learned that producer Sean Cunningham (The Last House on the Left, Friday the 13th) is producing a new horror film inspired by the tragically true story of Elisa Lam. Titled The Elevator Game, the film will be produced under Cunningham’s Crystal Lake Entertainment banner, and it’s set to begin filming in Los Angeles this coming September.
In The Elevator Game…
A young woman goes in search of her sister who disappears after participating in a mysterious Internet ritual known as The Elevator Game.
Leila had never heard of the Elevator Game until her younger sister, Mandy, went missing. Security camera footage showed Mandy entering an elevator in a decrepit old hotel downtown… and never coming back out. When the police investigation into Mandy’s disappearance runs cold, Leila takes matters in her own hands. The internet has stories of people disappearing after playing something called “The Elevator Game.” Some think it’s an urban legend, others swear it’s true.
Buried in the darkest corners of the Internet are the rules for one of the world’s most dangerous games. According to the Game, if you enter an elevator and press the buttons in a certain sequence, you will be transported to another dimension in the spirit plane… the Otherworld. There you may be granted your deepest secret desire or you may find death and damnation. Convinced her sister is trapped in the Otherworld, the only way for Leila to save her lost sister is to play the Elevator Game herself.
But the Game comes with a steep price. Some players have lost their lives… others their souls. If Leila isn’t careful, she might lose both.
The Elevator Game was originated in Korea and Japan and went on to gain worldwide notoriety online when it was blamed for the mysterious death of Elisa Lam – a young woman who was found drowned in a sealed water tank on top of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Nicole Jones-Dion wrote and will direct the film.
