🎥 31 Spooky Movies of Halloween: The Lift (1983)
Tonight, we’re taking the stairs — because The Lift (1983) proves that elevators are pure evil… or at least phenomenally stupid. In this Dutch “horror” film directed by Dick Maas, a killer elevator gains sentience and starts murdering people. Yes, you read that right. It’s an elevator. That kills people.
This was a time when horror studios were desperately trying to make people afraid of literally anything. ATMs, answering machines, possessed laundry — nothing was safe. The Lift could’ve been a brilliant satire or a tongue-in-cheek thriller, but instead it’s just… slow, joyless, and painfully self-serious. The pacing is at a crawl, the characters are cardboard cutouts, and the tension has all the lift (pun intended) of a broken escalator.
Sure, it could have been saved by humor or irony — but without those, it just dies on every floor. The version I saw was dubbed so badly from Dutch that it sounded like a 1970s anime gone wrong. Even the elevator looked like it wanted to escape the movie.
So grab your emergency stairwell plan, because this one’s going nowhere fast.
📼 The Lift (1983) — Directed by Dick Maas
Starring Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, and… a homicidal elevator.
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