De lift
Dick Maas / NL, 1983 / 95 min.
Dick Maas only needed thirty days to shoot the greatest Dutch horror box office hit ever. The Lift hinges on the power of the imagination: is service technician Felix Adelaar (Huub Stapel) paranoid or is the lift in the brand new office building really in a killing mood?
It all starts with ostensibly simple malfunctions: the lift doors stutter, floors are skipped, the power fails. Adelaar does what he can to get the recently installed lift to cooperate. However, he slowly becomes suspicious, particularly when four of the lift’s users are inexplicably found dead. People tumble down the lift shaft and the night watchman is decapitated.
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Director
Dick Maas
Production year
1983
Country
NL
Original title
De lift
Length
95 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
35mm
Part of
Iconen van de Nederlandse cinema
Iconic film producer Matthijs van Heijningen has turned 80, and we’re celebrating with a selection of the best films he produced from 1975 with his life and business partner Guurtje Buddenberg, including De lift, Flanagan, Een vlucht regenwulpen, Ciske de Rat, Kracht and De bende van Oss.
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