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The Lift is a Néerlandais film of genre Science fiction directed by Dick Maas released in USA on 4 july 1985 with Huub Stapel
The Lift (1983)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 july 1985
Length 1h35
Directed by Dick Maas
OriginPays-bas
Themes Transport films
Rating60%
De Lift (also known as The Lift and The Elevator) is a 1983 film by Dutch director Dick Maas about an intelligent and murderous elevator starting a killing spree on random people.
In 2001, an American remake, Down, was made and was also directed by Dick Maas.
Synopsis
In a building in Amsterdam, an elevator inexplicably begins to function alone. A lightning storm causes a power failure, trapping four people in the elevator. The elevator will not open, even after a subsequent power restore and the passengers almost suffocate. Subsequent malfunctions prove fatal: an elderly blind man falls to his death when down the elevator doors open to an empty shaft, a night watchman of the building is decapitated by the elevator doors, and a janitor is snared in the shaft, his body dropping through the elevator ceiling hatch. Felix Adelaar (Huub Stapel), a technician from the elevator company Deta Liften, begins to examine the electrical system in an attempt to find any anomalies. During the course of several inspections, he meets Mieke De Boer (Willeke von Ammelrooy), a journalist for The Nieuwe Revu, a local tabloid that Felix remarks he often finds in his friends' cat litter.Actors
Huub Stapel
(Felix Adelaar)
Willeke van Ammelrooy
(Mieke de Beer)
Josine van Dalsum
(Saskia Adelaar)
Piet Römer
(Beheerder)
Gerard Thoolen
(Nachtwaker 1)
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