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EVENT 15

By Matthew THOMPSON

Thriller - Completed 2012

A tense, found footage thriller. Three soldiers get trapped in an
elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb… But when White escapes,
her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Matthew THOMPSON
- Writer(s)
- Scott BOLGER, Kent MURRAY, Matthew THOMPSON
- Cast
- Jennifer MORRISON
- Producer(s)
- Christine ALDERSON
- Synopsis
- Three traumatised veterans – two men and a
  woman - freshly back from the middle east,
  enter an express elevator in a high-tech military
  building. Half way up, an explosion rocks the
  building, the elevator grinds to a halt. Their cell
  phones won’t connect, radio stations are down –
  something big has happened.
  A dirty bomb has hit Washington, radiation levels
  will be fatal in thirty minutes and the building
  is being evacuated. There is no-one to get them
  out, their only option is to open a hatch and
  climb onto the roof where there is a control
  panel that will send the car down to ground
  level.
  Tension is high in the elevator. One of the
  soldiers has history with the female soldier and
  confrontation is imminent. When they finally get
  onto the roof, the control panel is broken. They
  are stuck.
  We then reveal they are being watched from a
  control room. No bomb has gone off. Everything
  that has happened to them has been triggered
  by the two people watching them. They are
  stepping through a series of stressful ‘events’
  and monitoring their physical responses.
  This is a secret trial for a new drug developed to
  treat post traumatic stress disorder. As the trial
  continues, there is a black out in the elevator
  and the controllers hear screams and a violent
  struggle. One of the soldiers attacks the girl. The
  other intervenes to protect her. When the lights
  come back on the man who intervened is lying in
  a pool of blood, dead. Now the girl is alone with
  a murderer. She gets onto the roof where she is
  safe – for now.
  Panic in the control room. One of the controllers
  wants to abort but the other doesn’t. They
  consult their superiors. The General gets rid of
  the panicking controller and tells the one that
  remains that what has happened threatens the
  whole drug development and must be dealt with.
  He tells him he must add one more ‘event’ to
  the trial – Event 15. This event is to release the
  elevator brakes, killing the occupants. If he does
  this, the drug will go live, helping thousands of
  traumatised veterans.
  As the controller struggles with his dilemma, the
  girl attempts a dangerous escape by climbing
  the cable, the murderer close behind. By the
  time the controller releases the brakes, the
  female soldier has escaped while the murderer
  falls to his death. She finds out about the drug
  trial and we see her secretly downloading the
  footage from the elevator cameras. We finally
  realise everything we have seen was edited from
  the material on her hard drive.