The Elevator of Doom is among the very first experimental short films ever created using OpenAI’s Sora 2, the groundbreaking text-to-video model. Written and directed by PHANTOMSTONY, the entire project was completed in under four hours, with no visual editing or retouching. The only post-production work involved sound design and assembling the individual clips into a single sequence.
Inspired by 1920s and 1930s silent horror cinema, the film was generated entirely in the style of a black-and-white stop-motion puppet movie — filled with flickering candlelight, heavy film grain, and the dramatic shadows of German Expressionism.
The story follows a student at FH Burgenland searching for his missing girlfriend, only to uncover a terrifying secret: at midnight, if you enter the elevator and press 666, the door to Hell opens.
The Elevator of Doom is not a finished film in the traditional sense — it is an experiment, a first glimpse of what AI-generated filmmaking can already achieve. It is meant to provoke thought, not provide perfection. If something like this can be created in just a few hours today — what will tomorrow bring? https://sora.chatgpt.com/profile/phantomstony
Watch the full short film here:
👉 The Elevator of Doom – First Short Film with Sora 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlQkou4TTxs
