An online dare turns into a nightmare that refuses to stay contained to one building in Elevator Game, Rebekah McKendry's 2023 supernatural horror film.
What is Elevator Game about?
When a young woman vanishes after attempting a viral internet ritual known as the elevator game, her friends turn to a true-crime podcast host and a group of thrill-seeking online strangers to figure out what happened to her. The ritual itself is deceptively simple: ride a building's elevator through a specific, non-existent sequence of floors, following rules copied from an online forum, in hopes of slipping into another dimension. What starts as dare-driven curiosity quickly turns into genuine dread as members of the group begin experiencing things that shouldn't be possible outside the elevator shaft itself. As the search for the missing woman deepens, the line between internet urban legend and lived threat collapses, and the group has to decide whether finishing the ritual themselves is the only way to bring her back.
About the cast
Megan Best anchors the cast as the podcast host pulled into the investigation, with Adam Hurtig and Gino Anania among the online group who follow her into the ritual. Madison MacIsaac, Nazariy Demkowicz, Bradley Sawatzky, Liam Stewart-Kanigan, and Verity Marks round out the ensemble of friends and strangers caught up in the search.
Context & significance
Elevator Game draws directly from a real internet creepypasta legend, the kind of crowdsourced ritual that spread through forums and video sharing sites long before it reached the screen. Director Rebekah McKendry builds the film around that viral, participatory dread, using the podcast-and-forum framing device to root a supernatural threat in something audiences already recognize from their own scrolling habits.
Watching Elevator Game on Ktime
Elevator Game streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking horror fans a way to follow the ritual's rules and its consequences in their own language. All that's needed to watch is a free K-Time account login, through an interface built entirely in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora audience.