De Lift

• Huub Stapel: Felix Adelaar
• Willeke van Ammelrooy: Mieke de Beer
• Josine van Dalsum: Saskia Adelaar
• Serge -Henri Valcke: psychiatrist
• Liz Snoyink: Woman in Lift
• Huib Broos: Man in lift
• Paul Gieske: caretaker
• Anne Jan Drenth: night-watchman

Lift of horror ( De lift) is a Dutch horror thriller from the year 1983. Directed by Dick Maas, who handed in his first work with the strip, Huub Stapel plays the main role.

Action

An elevator in a Dutch high-rise seems to lead a life of its own for some time. For example, the guests of a party remain stuck for no apparent reason and be saved just before asphyxiation. Also included Shortly afterwards, a security guard in the elevator and when you try to escape from this, was beheaded, the maintenance company turns. The maintenance expert Felix Adelaar investigated the lift, but can find no fault in the circuits. This makes him suspicious, as soon accumulate more cases.

Supported by the curious reporter Mieke, which senses a story in the incidents, Adelaar researches and comes after the "Rising Sun Electronics " - Company on the ropes, which is equipped with the necessary electronics, the lift company. Shortly thereafter, Felix is suspended from duty. In the safe conscience, to be on the right track, it sets with Mieke his investigation on your own away. These both lead to a professor who once worked for Rising Sun. This finally gives the vital clue to the mysterious attacks: Rising Sun had strange experiments with microchips carried out and one of them was built into the circuitry of said elevator ...

Others

• " Lift of Horror" was the debut by film director Dick Maas. 18 years later he was allowed to direct his first work for the U.S. market again. In the remake "Down - come on, if you dare " from the 2001 James Marshall, Naomi Watts and Michael Ironside play the lead roles.
• Felix Adelaars maintenance company should really be called the "Delta lifts". But since it already gave this company and to avoid license and copyright difficulties, the name was changed just before shooting in " Deta lifts".
• The film was a low budget production and originated with low implementation costs in just 30 days.
• During the filming of Dick Maas threw half the rotation time with producer Matthijs van Heijningen and was fired. Already the next day Meuse but was reinstated as van Heijningen could not be realized without the help Maas the project.
• For certain concepts and the consistency of features worked the production team with " Schindler lifts BV ", a real lift manufacturer, together. This cooperated willingly, because they liked the idea and the script.
• For the scene where the security guard is decapitated by elevator, one needed several settings. Therefore, the falling dummy head acts through repeated use dirty and disfigured.

Reviews

" Viscous, only in a few scenes voltage convincing horror movie, which is able to exaggerate the realistic image of an over-technological world only laboriously into the terror -causing. "

Awards

The film was awarded at the Netherlands Film Festival with the Golden Calf for Best Director.