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Bookmark this pageThe Lift (1983)
Director: Dick Maas
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From Time Out Film Guide
This confirms all the creeping fears of those of us who stare glassily at the ceilings of lifts. In a Dutch high-rise building, one of the elevators suddenly gets a mind of its own, and since it is not one of those nice, charitably disposed Otis jobs with open grille-work, it decides to take revenge on all the sweaty claustrophobes who have been making its life such an up-and-down misery. The body count is low to middling for this kind of thing, although the methods of disposal are ingenious enough to compensate. Unfortunately, the movie is shafted by confusions of script and execution, neither of which match up to the original good idea. The Shining still holds the field among the all-too-rare horror films which explore the notion of an inanimate world exerting its revenge. CPea.Author: CPea
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Cast & crew
Director: Dick Maas
Producer: Mattthijs Van Heijningen
Cast: Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine Van Dalsum, Piet Römer, Gerard Thoolen, Hans Veerman full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 99 mins
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