ATM

Who knew that a film focusing around being stalked in an ATM booth would work as a premise for a film. Well it does…more the most part. This film is a billed a horror yet falls more in the line of thriller.

They have now officially run out of places in which to terrorize beautiful people on film with the release of the bizarre and unfulfilling “ATM,” a new thriller with three talented actors nonetheless caught in an ineffective film that stretches to...

Confined-setting horror films require airtight logistical construction: If both good and evil characters don't behave in ways that make sense vis-à-vis their circumstances, any sense of terror quickly dissipates. Such is the problem with ATM...

Another gimmicky, low-budget thriller from Chris Sparling, the writer who did the Ryan Reynolds flick “Buried,” “ATM” takes place mostly inside a . . . you guessed it. After a Christmas party, three colleagues (Brian Geraghty from “The Hurt Locker,”...

An ATM machine that comes up empty and proclaims you're out of cash, may not be the worst thing in the world. At least if director David Brooks apparently has any say, with his nerve-shredding electronic chiller, ATM.

You get an impression early in ATM as to how much Sparling and Brooks are trying to pad their screenplay out. They don't just let us know Peck's character is a jerk, they make it evident in every action he does and everything he says in the first...

An all-too obvious attempt at replicating the unexpected success he enjoyed with Ryan Reynolds’ ‘Buried’, ‘ATM’ sees writer Chris Sparling returning to a claustrophobic conceit, pitting three individuals trapped within the confines of an isolated ATM...