Hellevator: The Bottled Fools Blu-ray

British label Treasured Films will release on Blu-ray Hiroki Yamaguchi's Hellevator: The Bottled Fools (2003), starring Luchino Fukisaki, Ryôsuke Koshiba, and Yoshiichi Kawada. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on May 25.

Description: Set almost entirely in a transport elevator that shuttles citizens between futuristic towns stacked on top of one another, a hellish scenario unfolds. Amongst the postmodern masses that squeeze into the public transport: cell-phone addicted businessmen clones, a child with a human brain as a pet, leather clad, militant law enforcers, and a 17-year-old schoolgirl (Luchina Fukisaki) with the psychic ability to receive visions from each person on board. Oppressive paranoia builds when a pair of convicted homicidal rapists join the ride and escape their abusive police escorts. Claustrophobic sets, a rabble of strange and detailed characters and bursts of excessive violence set the stage for an explosion of chaos in this psychologically charged dystopian sci-fi horror.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEWLY UPSCALED AND GRADED MASTER APPROVED BY HIROKI YAMAGUCHI
• NEW Social Order and Psychological Collapse in Hellevator: Video Essay by Robert Edwards
• NEW Fatal Floors - Elevated Horror: Video Essay on Elevators in Horror Cinema by Darrell Buxton
• NEW Interview with Director Hiroki Yamaguchi
• NEW Making-of featurette
• NEW Opening Day Stage Greeting featurette
• Image Gallery
• Pilot trailer
• Unreleased Trailer
• Reversible Sleeve featuring two artwork choices
• In Japanese, with English subtitles