The film-makers' avowed intent is to do for car parks when Jaws did for sharks. Or Psycho did for shower stalls.

To this end buxom victim Angela (Nichols) undergoes ordeals ranging from being trussed up in the boot of her car to almost drowning in a lift flooded with cold water.

The twisted mind behind these terrifying tribulations is psychopathic parking attendant Thomas (Bentley), a grinning nutjob with an Elvis fixation.

He wants Angela to be his girlfriend. In fact, he wants her to be his girlfriend so much he drugs her, strips off her clothes and manacles her to a table. Then offers her Christmas lunch.

Unsportingly, Angela is not to keen on Thomas's seasonal seduction technique...and runs off into the night. The trouble is there's no way out of the car park. And Thomas knows her every move.

Put together by the same team whose warped imagination remade The Hills Have Eyes, this is a by-the-book horror-thriller distinguished by a couple of very unpleasant deaths.

In one, an unlucky office colleague clocked by Thomas on CCTV making unsolicited advances to his putative love undergoes an extremely ferocious death-by-office-furniture.

A well-upholstered Nichols is just fine as the tenacious heroine although Jake Gyllenhaal lookalike Bentley is less convincing as the leering psycho.

There's a pleasing lack of daft decisions made by the increasingly desperate Ange even if the plot follows a time-honoured arc to the predictable denouement.

It's enough to make you take the bus.

Tim Evans