Review of The Lift

The Lift (1983)
7/10
Classic Dutch horror movie; perhaps out-dated.
1 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Back in 1983 when this movie was made, it was a real shocking classic. Not because of the opening nudity-scene in the elevator (after all: this is the Netherlands and 'Spetters' had been released three years prior), but because it was a real scary and sometimes even gory mainstream movie.

By todays standards it will probably disappoint you - the story about a rogue biocomputer-operated elevator is severely outdated and special effects are negligible. But nevertheless it really has something - eerie and terrifying music and some really scare scenes. Not the one with the guard being decapitated, but the one with the little girl begin enthralled by the three elevators is classic.

Another classic scene is right at the end, where the surviving cast members take the stairs, 10+ floors down, instead of the (now normal) elevators.
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