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De Lift

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De Lift	comment	De Lift ("The Elevator") is a Dutch sci-fi/horror film written, directed and scored by Dick Maas and starring Huub Stapel and Willeke van Ammelrooy.Inside an office building in Amsterdam, an elevator inexplicably begins to function independently following a lightning storm. The elevator then goes on a murdering spree, killing and injuring anyone who dares to go near it or use it. Among its victims are an elderly blind man who falls to his death when the elevator doors open to an empty shaft, the building night watchman who is decapitated by the elevator doors, and a janitor who is snared in the shaft in which his body drops through the elevator ceiling hatch.In response to the mysterious malfunctions, technician Felix Adelaar (Stapel) is hired to examine the system in order to find the cause of the problem. Over the course of his investigation, he meets Mieke de Boer (van Ammelrooy), a journalist for De Nieuwe Revu, a tabloid magazine that Felix remarks he often finds in his friends' cat litter. As the inspection continues, Felix slowly becomes more and more obsessed with finding the cause of the anomalies, to the point that he stops interacting with his wife and son. Meanwhile, the body count rises, and the elevator intends to make Felix its next victim.An American remake titled Down, also made by Maas, was released in 2001.
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De Lift / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
De Lift / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Some of the death scenes are played for (rather dark) laughs, most notably that of the night watchman.
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De Lift / int_2c0bbca0	type	Noose Catch
De Lift / int_2c0bbca0	comment	Noose Catch: A variation - as the titular homicidal elevator is destroyed and crashes to the bottom of the shaft, the Corrupt Corporate Executive responsible for its creation gets entangled in the loose cables and is hanged in the elevator shaft.
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De Lift / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
De Lift / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The underlying cause of the elevator's anomalous behaviour is a malfunctioning bio-computer.
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De Lift / int_421c9529	type	Elevator Going Down
De Lift / int_421c9529	comment	Elevator Going Down: Downplayed/Subverted. When the elevator first gets stuck at the beginning of the movie, one of the two couples in it take the opportunity to have sex in the elevator. Before they can carry this out though, the elevator fully turns evil and everybody in it gets unconscious. Alluded to in a sarcastic way by Felix when Mieke taunts him:
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De Lift / int_5a22609e	type	Creator Thumbprint
De Lift / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: Having multiple characters named Kees is a recurring element in Dick Maas' films. There are four people in this film named Kees: two security guards, the janitor, and Felix's brother-in-law.
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De Lift / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
De Lift / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: One of the security guards gets his head stuck between the closed elevator doors, and then is decapitated by the elevator itself.
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De Lift / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
De Lift / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After the night watchman is decapitated, his assistant reacts by promptly vomiting all over the floor.
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De Lift / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
De Lift / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: The elevator's final act of madness is to shoot one of its broken cables out to drag the Rising Sun CEO inside the shaft and hang him.
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De Lift / int_e1223d07	type	Evil Elevator
De Lift / int_e1223d07	comment	Evil Elevator: The Movie
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De Lift / int_e6fe6d6	comment	Freestate Amsterdam: Averted. The film portrays a fairly realistic (at least, as realistic as you get in a film of this sort) and non-stereotypical version of life in the Dutch capital. Which isn't surprising, since it's a Dutch film.
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De Lift / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
De Lift / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The CEO of Rising Sun shows up at the last minute to destroy the malfunctioning bio-computer.
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De Lift / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
De Lift / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Saskia, who irrationally and shortsightedly accuses her Henpecked Husband Felix of being unfaithful without ever giving him a chance to hear him out to explain what is actually going on and then divorcing him and gaining full custody of their children.
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