ATM

ATM was a thriller film directed by David Brooks, and distributed by IFC Films. The film starring Brian Geraghty, Alice Eve, and Josh Peck. The film took place on a late night, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man during their visited to an ATM.

Plot
The film opened with an unknown man drawing and organizing diagrams to the song Silent Night. He then picked up his parka coat and left.

While attending a Christmas party, stockbroker David Hargrove (Brian Geraghty) offered to drive his co-worker, Emily Brandt (Alice Eve) home. Reluctantly, he allowed his friend Corey Thompson (Josh Peck) to accompany them. On the car ride, Corey forced David to pull up at a local ATM, in order to get money for pizza. Corey and David then entered the ATM to withdraw money, and shortly after, Emily joined them. When the three were about to leave, they turned to see a hooded figure (Mike O'Brian) lurking outside. While Corey suggested they returned to the car, Emily and David were reluctant, believing the figure to be a robber. Although they were scared, they realized, though later proven wrong by David, that the figure couldn't get in without an ATM card.

Meanwhile, the hooded figure murdered a local man (Robert Huculak) walking his dog, prompting the three to call the police, only to realized they had left their cellphones in the car. When the three were panicking inside, the hooded figure cut off the heater in the ATM booth, effectively making it colder. David decided to reason with the hooded figure, and attempted to give him 500 dollars from him, a pair of valuable earrings from Emily, and a watch from Corey in return for their safety. While giving the money to the hooded figure, he ran back to the car, attempting to grab Emily's phone to alert the police. He was chased to the car, got the phone and realized the wires had been cut preventing the car from being driven. The hooded figure then attacked him by smashing out the passenger's side window. He escaped the car and was chased back to the ATM booth, unharmed, but dropped the cellphone along the way. After that, Emily used her lipstick to write "HELP" on the ATM booth's window. The hooded man then took the phone, the valuables and the wallet from the dead man.

As the three began to freeze, a security guard (Ernesto Griffith) saw the sign and went to investigate, but was beaten to death by the hooded figure with a crowbar taken from David's trunk in the process, leaving them hopeless. Another man (Glen Thompson) with a similar coat to the killer entered the ATM, but Corey and David managed to kill him by strangling him. They later realized that the man was innocent and was only going to work, because he was the janitor. After that, Corey took his coat and became angry, then he attempted to leave the ATM booth, but was caught and stabbed by the hooded figure.

After several more hours freezing in the ATM booth, David and Emily realized Corey was still alive. They both ran out to grab him, and managed to return to the ATM booth before the hooded figure got to them. While David and Emily attempted to stifle Corey's bleeding wound, the hooded figure began to fill the ATM booth with cold water, attempting to freeze them to death. Corey eventually died of blood loss and hypothermia. David and Emily concocted a plan to trigger the fire alarm to send for help, using a lighter found in the coat that Corey taken from the dead janitor, a trash can, and paper. Emily climbed on David's shoulders and managed to get the fire close enough to the fire alarm and was successful, but David slipped and Emily fell, fatally breaking her neck on the signing table, and killed.

Before that, the man had driven David's car against the door before filling the ATM with water, and then smashed the security guard's car into it. Angered, David attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail at the hooded killer, only to realized that it was not the killer, but the body of the killed security guard. The police arrived and David was arrested.

While David was being driven away, he saw several figures in similar parkas as the killer, still unsure of who the masked madman could be. The police found a video tape recorded the events within the ATM, but it was made obvious that the killer had planned his actions so as not to appear in the footage, effectively framing David for the killer's crime. He also planted other evidence against David.

In the final scene of the film, the hooded figure, still unknown, returned to his headquarter, where he began to map out similar attacks on a mini-mart.

Production
Filming began September 2010 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Actress Margarita Levieva was set to play the female lead before being replaced by Alice Eve.

Reception
Reviews for the film were extremely negative, with a "Rotten" rating of 9% on the review website Rotten Tomatoes.

Release
The film was released to video on demand services such as Comcast and Zune on March 6, 2012. On July 31, 2012, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray. Both formats feature the rated 90-minute theatrical version of the film, as well as an unrated 85-minute director's cut. They also both include a making-of/behind-the-scenes feature, and the original theatrical trailer.