Released the same year I was (1983), and directed by some guy called Dick Maas, this is a trailer for a Dutch horror movie about a killer lift. No, really. I stumbled across this slice of heaven whilst watching a VHS copy of Luis Bunuel’s Wuthering Heights, which is poor demographic targeting. This is the only online trailer I could find, so the classic last line is clipped annoyingly, but you get the point.



“take the stairs. Take The Stairs. For God’s SAKE TAKE THE STAIRS!!!”
Interesting trivia…

• Maas was fired after arguing with producer Matthijs van Heijningen, but rehired the next day because van Heijningen couldn't do it without him.
• The scene where the security guard is decapitated by the elevator was shot several times, which explains why the evidently prosthetic head that falls down the shaft is smudged and disfigured.