ATM is a 2012 horror movie directed by David Brooks with a screenplay by Chris Sparling starring Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck and Alice Eve. The film was released to video on demand services. On March 6, 2012. On July 31, 2012, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Plot[]
David Hargrove is a stockbroker having trouble asking out his co-worker Emily Brandt. At a Christmas party, he offers to drive her home. Reluctantly, he also agrees to drive home his drunk co-worker Corey Thompson. During the ride, Corey has David stop at a local ATM booth, needing to withdraw cash to buy pizza.
When Corey encounters card problems inside the booth, David and Emily join him inside. The three then spot a hooded figure in a parka coat with the hood up lurking outside in the parking lot. David and Emily suspect the figure to be a robber and discover he cannot enter the booth without an ATM card. When the hooded man kills a dog walker like it's nothing, they attempt to phone the police, but Corey lost his phone at the party, David's phone battery is dead, and Emily's phone is in her purse in the car. The hooded man shuts down the booth's heater. David opts to negotiate their safety by giving the killer $500, earrings, and a watch. He uses this to escape to his car, where he finds out that the vehicle's ignition wires have been severed, and the car cannot start. He attempts to call 911, but is attacked by the man. He accidentally drops Emily's phone as he escapes.
Emily uses her lipstick to write "HELP" on the booth's window to attract attention. The three of them are freezing when a security guard locates them. When the guard tries to call the cops, the hooded man beats him to death using a tire iron from David's car trunk, leaving the three shocked. When a man with a similar coat enters the booth, he is killed by David and Corey, but is revealed to be only an innocent janitor. Frustrated, Corey leaves, ends up hitting a line of wire, falls, and gets stabbed by the hooded man.
After several hours, David and Emily realize Corey is still alive. They retrieve him from outside, narrowly managing to return to the booth before the hooded man can get to them. The man blocks the booth door with David's car and tries to freeze them to death by filling the booth with cold water. Corey dies of blood loss and hypothermia. David lifts Emily on his shoulders to trigger the fire sprinkler system alarm but he slips, causing Emily to fall and fatally break her neck.
The hooded man slams David's car into the booth. Angered, David improvises a Molotov cocktail and throws it at the killer but the figure he sets ablaze turns out to be the dead guard. The police arrive but arrest David as the hooded man hides himself in the crowd. As David is driven away, he sees many figures wearing parkas in the crowd. The police recover surveillance recordings of the events in the ATM booth, but it is made clear that the killer had planned his actions so as not to appear in the footage, miraculously framing David for his crimes. In the final scene, the hooded man returns to his headquarters, where he begins to map out similar attacks on other ATMs.
Cast[]
- Brian Geraghty as David Hargrove
- Alice Eve as Emily Brandt
- Josh Peck as Corey Thompson
- Mike O'Brian as The Man
- Robert Huculak as Robert
- Ernesto Griffith as Security Guard
- Bryan Clark as Jerry
- Daniel De Jaeger as Luke
- Omar Khan as Christian
- Aaron Hughes as Patrolman
- Will Woytowich as Sargent
- Glen Thompson as Harold
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Trivia[]
- The killer is wearing exactly the same outfit as the killer from Urban Legend (1998).