HIGH-RISE

By Ben WHEATLEY

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Drama - Completed 2014

Life begins to spiral out of control for the residents of a high-rise complex.

    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama, Black comedy
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 119 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ben WHEATLEY
    • Writer(s)
    • Amy JUMP
    • Producer(s)
    • Jeremy THOMAS (Recorded Picture Company)
    • Synopsis
    • London, 1975.
      A slick apartment tower rises above the Thames, the beginnings of what will soon become the world's biggest financial hub.
      Dominating the landscape, it is simply called the HIGH-RISE... its address a mark of exclusivity.
      Its newest resident is Robert Laing, an ambitious young doctor utterly seduced by the lifestyle and cutting-edge technology the high-rise has to offer.
      Laing meets Wilder, a charismatic provocateur who introduces him to the seedy underbelly of the high-rise. The cracks in this apparently flawless society grow rapidly, and Laing is shocked at the depravity he sees. Life in the high-rise quickly descends into madness and violence, and Laing finds himself amongst the marauding hordes of bloodthirsty tenants who take over the building, floor by floor.
      A disturbing vision from the director of Kill List, this action-packed thriller depicts society's most chilling nightmares.